Tuesday, January 6, 2009


I just spent a wonderful few hours recently with a very good friend of mine, Winston gan. Winston owns D'Best Respray Company at Malayan Motors in Singapore and he's been in the restoration business for almost 22 years. If it's broken on the island here, and you want it fixed right, you go to Winston... hands down!
Malayan Motors sells Bentley's, Jaguars, Lexus... nice cars! Winston and I were laughing over another mutual friend of ours who has a very lovely black Bentley coupe with a dark/light Red leather interior.
Seems like this chap's son did a bit of a number on the rear leather seats and he brought the car into Winston's shop for repair.
Now, Winston like me, uses Lexol Leather Cleaner, Lexol Leather Conditioner and the KozaK Auto DryWash cloth on many of the cars he works on. From a Bentley to a humble Volkswagon, he Lexol's and KozaK's them all. And, they look great afterwards!
This gentleman expected a huge bill for cleaning the p$%**k from the rear seat.. instead we whipped out a spray bottle of Lexol Cleaner and went to work. Within an hour, the seat was clean, fresh, and conditioned with Lexol Conditioner. The smell was gone, the car was like new again, and we had a very happy amigo, smiling from ear to ear!
His driver was polishig his Bentley with a terry cloth towel... I took the opportunity to straighten him out and gave him a demo of the KozaK cloth. In less than 5 minutes, his coupe was spotless and glowing... and his eyes were as big as saucers! The road dirt was gone in a flash.. no water, no scratches! I love that cloth!
I then showed him the video from ProMedUSA's website at http://www.kozakasia.com/. He was laughing so hard I thought he was going to wet his pants (well.. actually he may have, but I wasn't about to check!!)
Here's the video for you to enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXsnYkTwjKg
That brings me to a story about my first Rolls Royce. It was a 1971 Silver Shadow, much like the one in the photo, except it was Silver with Black sides, and black leather interior.
The leather seats were getting very stiff... I bought the car in 1982 for $15,000 from a dealer in St. Louis, MO (Charles Schmidt I think was his name) and the seats had never been conditioned. They were beginning to crack badly. RR suggested Connelly's Hide Food at about $50 a pop... it didn't do S%#T to fix the seats. I tried Lexol Conditioner... used about 4 or 5 light coats over a week's time, and the seats were restored to an almost new suppleness. Now, the cracks were still there... but the leather was fresh and soft. It worked great!
Winston loves the product as much as I do... no sweat car care.. quick, easy, clean and... IT WORKS!