Anyone have experience with taking a Dainese jacket to be professionally cleaned? Use a dry cleaner who does leather coats??
I usually use the home leather cleaner and conditioner, but I'd like to take it in and have it really cleaned, as the white on my jacket isn't as white as I'd like it to be :)
Anything to watch out for?
NOT recommended. If the cleaning kit from Dainese is not getting it as white as you'd like, I recommend using Luxol cleaner. It's a bit better at getting things white again, but be sure to condition it afterwards as it will dry the leather out a bit.
Yes, I've been using the Lexol Cleaner followed by the conditioner. Guess my white will have to do.
+1 for Lexol
Once took my old black leather jacket to a pro for cleaning. They did a great job but it was like 100 bucks. I solved that problem by not cleaning my leathers anymore (unless it's raining).
I had a leather jacket ruined by a professional cleaning company. No more.
I use many different leather conditioners , but Lexol leather Cleaner followed by Lexol Conditioner or Mother's or any good leather conditioner should do you well.
Lexol Conditioner tends to make the leather more tacky feeling , that's why I like it for the palms of my leather riding gloves. For making leather softer I like to use Gurka Leather Care Formula #1, or Mother's . They are more like a lotion where as Lexol is more like a milky liquid.
Dainese makes a good leather liquid cream conditioner.
Munch, my friend, it does not matter what you do to your leathers. Short of burning them, there is nothing you can do to get rid of your funk.
(When I do clean my jackets...)
I have been using a leather conditioner from Melaleuca that I am pretty happy with.
For surface cleaning, use a Magic Eraser. (It will get your White white again)
After a ride, take all the armor out and turn your pants and jacket inside out, let them air out. Once they are dry, spray down the lining with Fabreze.
Be a man get rid of the skirt no offense ladies just an expression bug splatter on you leathers makes you cool. Just use the regular cleaning/conditioner for leather like others have said all have be f'd up in one way or another.
-panthro