Tips for touching up small scratch in black leather? [vegan leather]

[5amKot]

**picture to follow** Just picked up a 2018 M3 and there is a scratch in the passenger side rear seat. It is not a tear, but it looks like the black was scratched away. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to fill in the chip? I don't want to order just any black leather paint as I would hate to have a darker black spot there. I know..any black paint would look better than the white chips, but I'd love to get it as close to factory black as possible. Thanks in advance for your input!

 

[5amKot]

Here are the photos of the scratch.

 

[dmurphy]

I don’t know how to fix it, but I do know it isn’t leather …. That’s vinyl. I’d have a vinyl shop help you with it.

 

[5amKot]

I don’t know how to fix it, but I do know it isn’t leather …. That’s vinyl. I’d have a vinyl shop help you with it.

Thanks @dmurphy. I would love to avoid taking it to a shop for such a small touch up as I'm a pretty handy person and feel comfortable attacking this on my own. If all else fails, I guess I could find a shop to take a look.

 

[dmurphy]

Thanks @dmurphy. I would love to avoid taking it to a shop for such a small touch up as I'm a pretty handy person and feel comfortable attacking this on my own. If all else fails, I guess I could find a shop to take a look.

absolutely — it should be touch-uppable (is that a word?!) but make sure you use something for vinyl, not leather. I’m not an expert in fabric repair so I unfortunately don’t have a lot to offer.

If it helps your research, this is the company Tesla uses for their seating materials … Home

Best of luck and let us know how it goes please!