Bought Leatherique conditioner and cleaner to try in early spring. My son's porsche had a rear panel that was baked in the sun. I was going to get it recovered in new leather but thought I would try Leatherique first. The leather on the top of the panel was hard cardboard, cracked, and discolored. It was so hard that when I touched the area that was baked - a little piece cracked off. The rest of the panel was good. I put the Leatherique on in the basement and after 3 days saw only a slight softening of the cardboardy leather. Disheartened, I left the panel sit for a few weeks. The leather was still not too soft - only slightly less cardboardy. Last week it went up to 85 F here. I took the panel and saturated the cardboardy area again and massaged the Leatherique condtioner into it again and put the panel in the car with windows up in the sun and left it for 2 days. There was a lot of gummy sticky stuff on top of the treated area. I used the cleaner to clean it off and was surprised to feel the leather was quite supple and almost as soft as the rest of the panel. I reapplied the conditioner several times, cleaning with the Leatherique cleaner in between applications until there was no more gunk coming out of the leather. Each time I let the leather bake in the car on hot days. Well, the leather is now as soft as the rest of the panel with a few cracks and discolorations. I sent a swatch of the leather from under the panel to Leatherique and they are doing a color match for dye for me. The next step will be to use their latex filler and sand it and re-dye the panel. The real trick to using this product is extreme heat. If your leather was not kid leather soft to begin with - Leatherique will NOT make it kid leather soft. Leatherique does restore leather to it's original softness level. I went from a non- believer to a believer after much frustration. Just remember - HEAT is important - don't try and do it in the winter!! If others on this thread will re-try the Leatherique with a closed car in hot sunlight and re-post - I would love to hear if they too become believers.
Morris