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Best way to clean Barley Ventilated Nappa Leather Seats

Best way to clean Barley Ventilated Nappa Leather Seats

Polestar 2022 LR AWD. As seen in picture (blacked out background for internet privacy/safety reasons) I have the tan seats.

Love that they’re easy to clean visually, marks can be erased with just water and a towel!

However, I sometimes drive clients in my car and one of them with all due respect has terrible B.O. To the point where after they leave the car the smell lingers for eternity.

I haven’t tried a cleaning product other than water because I don’t want to mess up the Leather. Please recommend products with the name and/or link that will (most importantly) help remove odors and visually make the seats look better.

From my research I guess all bad body odor is, is just a collection of sweat and skin oils that transfer from a persons body to the seat. Maybe the stench is on the seatbelt as well, so provide products for cleaning the seatbelt please.

It smells like gooch sweat, wet dog, and a middle school Locker room before the axe deodorant is sprayed.

Whenever the smelly client leaves I also try bringing down the windows and running the seat fan in hopes to whisk the smell up from the seat and out of the car via windows which helps a little but I can always catch whiffs of the lingering smell hours and days after the person isn’t in the car.
Anything helps, these air fresheners I’ve been using only are a band aid and mask the odors instead of destroying it.

u/Read_Red2596 — 4 days ago

Bought this used car with a rock chip several months ago. Not sure exactly when the chip happened with last owner. But got it filled with resin at local glass shop after buying it, and they did a good job. My worry is that the crack spreads (Socal weather, summer coming up, drive a lot with AC blasting). From far away you can’t tell it’s there.

Polestar service center quoted me $1500. Insurance covers the whole thing, I just pay $50 deductible HOWEVER I also pay for glass if it’s OEM. Aftermarket glass is covered by insurance.

Is this something worth getting repaired? I’ve had the car serviced before and it’s a headache, Polestar service is always overbooked and it took a week of my car sitting there to get looked at for a previous OBC issue last month.

I’m seeing that safelite doesn’t know how to properly repair and/or calibrate these?

I also don’t want to pay for OEM glass so aftermarket glass worries me. I don’t want rattling or sensor problems from aftermarket glass installation… thoughts?

u/Read_Red2596 — 2 months ago