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From: eoates@us.oracle.com
Subject: Re: Connolly Hide Food
Organization: Oracle Corporation, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:36:56 GMT
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In article <1992Jul29.152049.243@sage.hnrc.tufts.edu>, loszewski_im@sage.hnrc.tufts.edu writes:
> In article <1992Jul29.101401.1@us.oracle.com>, eoates@us.oracle.com writes:
>> In article <1992Jul28.155840.7084@dsd.es.com>, bjernfal@olin.dsd.es.com (Jan Bjernfalk) writes:
>>> 
>>> A while back I remember seeing some positive reviews of a treatment
>>> for leather seats called "Connolly Hide Food", or something close to
>>> that.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone know where to buy this stuff?
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> __________________________________________________________________________
>>> Jan Bjernfalk                           Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.
>>> bjernfal@dsd.es.com                     Salt Lake City, Utah  801-582-5847
>> 
>> I use the stuff on my Ferrari.  It is available at the service department of
>> any dealer which sells cars equiped with Connolly Leather: Ferrari,
>> Rolls-Royce, Bently, Jaguar, Lotus, maybe some others.  I prefer it to Lexol.
>> 
>> Ed Oates (my opinions, not Oracle's)
> 
> Ed, I was just curious why you prefer this brand rather than the Lexol.  I am
> restoring a 1969 Jaguar XKE and I was using Lexol on the leather.  I was just
> wondering what the difference was between the two.
> 
> --Rob
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Normally, I would email the replay, but since many people have send note around
about Lexol/Hide Food, I assume there is general interest...

I used Lexol on the Ferrari when it was new because it was recommended by the
detailer I use.  It did an OK job, but Ferrari leather is of a quite hard
variety and pretty thick.  The Lexol was not preverving the leather in "like
new" condition.  So I asked the Ferrari service department about the situation. 
They suggested Hide Food (they sell both HF and Lexol, so no particular reason
to prefer one to the other) since that is what Connolly and Ferrari recommend. 
They said that Lexol worked better on some of the other cars they sell used
(BMW, Mercedes for example), but that there experience was the cars with
Connolly Leather do better with Hide Food.  

My suggestion is to try them both, starting with Hide Food if you have a Jaguar
with Connolly Leather.  You can switch later if the results don't please you
since the product don't fight one another (again, according to the Ferrari guy
and in my experience).  I have a Ford Explorer with leather, and I use Lexol on
that and my wife has a Porsche 911 with leather, and Lexol works best for that,
too!  So maybe it is something about the way Connolly tans their hides, or the
dyes they use which makes Hide Food a preferrable product for Ferrari.

Good luck with your XKE restoration - truly one of the world's most beautiful
car ever  built!

Ed Oates (my opinions, not Oracle's)
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