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Post by 1970bayboy on Feb 10, 2007 23:58:04 GMT -5
hay fellas and lady's
I'm looking for a carpet kit for the bay window? I'm thinking i would like carpet from the front seats right through to the trunk lid . Do any of you guy's have carpet in there or are you running stock rubber mat's ? i have not seen any full carpet sets in my world wide looking. So any suggestion's i know you can get carpet made into mats at a carpet place , but i don't know how they do it? If they just sew on a cording type edge that would work i guess . I could just bring the carpet home lay it out then get them to put edging on it? Wonder what that would cost?
Joby
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Post by rico on Feb 11, 2007 2:07:34 GMT -5
I went to a carpet store and bought carpet that i thought would look cool.I then cut it to fit for the rear and the front. I also bought fabric from fabric land that matched pretty good and i did all my panels with it. It looks really good. If you take your time, you can do a good job. A large pair of sharp industrial scissors and contact cement.
I then went to home depot and you can buy trim there for the edges to finish it off. Glue it in place and you are set. It is much cheaper than buying the carpet kit, and it looks just as good, if not better because the combo you pick will certainly be one of a kind!
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Post by rico on Feb 11, 2007 2:13:13 GMT -5
Oh yeah, for the rear, i also bought a sheet of plywood. I cut it to fit perfectly in the rear, otherwise the carpet would lay on the ribbed floor, which would have looked funny. This way, you can glue the carpet to the wood, and the carpet lays nice and flat, just like it does in your house.
I also used underlay, so it feels soft when you step on it, and also adds to sound deadening.
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Post by karmann57 on Feb 11, 2007 8:28:53 GMT -5
I will be making my own for the rear seating area as well. Rico's plan sounds good, the only thing I could add is to use a synthetic underpad as I hear that it won't hold moisture.
Shane
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Post by bullyboy on Feb 11, 2007 9:15:01 GMT -5
What I have done for the floors in the beetles has been cut the sound dampening into strips and lay it in the grooves (1 or 2 layers depending on the grooves) and then add a layer on top to make it flat. It would probably weigh the same as plywood but dampen the sound better.
If you want foam for the floors make sure it is a closed cell foam. It won't absorb water. You can buy it from Norwesco in Calgary as a neoprene closed cell foam.
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Post by coronabus on Feb 12, 2007 9:46:17 GMT -5
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