Greetings, Earthling. We come in peace... Never mind "Paris to Dakar", the VehiCROSS looks ready for the Martian desert.
I happen to have a full carpet set from a low milage VX. Just say'n......
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Some terrific ideas, thanks so much guys! Marlin, I'm intrigued by the approach you took. Actually, a friend who owns a body shop is helping me with this and his suggestion is quite similar, basically some form of spray in Rhino Liner like they use to line truck beds. Don't know if that's the best option. But maybe someone in the forum has had some experience with this approach? Otherwise, I might go the route Marlin took.
X2 on cutting an access hole for your fuel pump before sealing things up. Your fuel pump will fail eventually and this makes replacement a 30 min job.
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Completed this and thought I'd post it...
This is the product that I used. IT IS SOFT! If you want something that can take abuse this is not the product for you. I mainly wanted to protect the carpet since no one, like WeatherTec, makes a rear liner. It is long enough to extend to the back of the front seats if you remove the rear seat. I found it at Sport Authority in the area with large exercise equipment for about $35. No, it did not come with the workout partner...
I cleaned the carpet and let it dry
Removed all of the holders. I turned the child seat hooks over and put back in place so not to lose them. I cut the mat 44" long and 40 1/4" wide. This will put you starting at the rear seat mounts. Starting at the top I made sure it was in place and put the first two holders in place.
Working my way down from front to back I attached the holders and seat belts back in place. I simply cut a slit for the seat attachment. If I did it again I'd do the same for the seat belts instead of removing the big bracket they are attached to.
I'm please with the results and think that this will meet my needs of protecting the carpet and should help some with road noise but I already have DynaMat on the floor. I have enough product left over to do it again if it needs to be replaced since I only went from the back seat mounts.
Last edited by Mile High VX : 06/08/2014 at 09:53 AM
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That looks REALLY nice, thanks for posting photos!![]()
I had the bottom of a gallon of milk explode in the back door area behind the back seats, by the time I got home it had run all the way down underneath the carpet to the floor board of the passenger floor board area. It was a total soak through all carpet and padding. So I immediately tore out all carpet, seats belts, everything got torn out immediately. I soaked in all types of cleaners, I shampooed I left out to dry, I hung to dry. All in all I got it pretty near perfect, but in the middle of all that I bought a used set of carpet from one of the members here and installed that. But before I layed down both a layer of sound anti-vibration and sound deadening layers.
So..... I still have my old set that smells great, but in all the cleaning I did I removed the padding on the back.