Re: 47 Custom carpet question.

Posted by HH56 On 2014/6/24 10:15:29

BDeB, I surely appreciate your taking the time and effort to dig out the old carpet for photos. Confirms a couple of assumptions. I do see a slight difference or two from the 47 but still gives definite intentions of where it goes. One difference is your front piece has definite notches to fit around the seat track -- the 47 is just a small slit. Another slight difference on the rear piece center over the hump where the mat is cut away under the carpet.

I too would appreciate a bit of detail on the slit in the front piece. If you would be so kind to just give dimensions of the center wide point and the length side to side it would be helpful to lay out and to get an idea how much mine has shrunk.

As you can see, my car is not really carpet ready but I wanted to put the piece on the firewall while there is good access and complete that area so the dash can go back in. In order to cut that small piece I needed to lay out the rest and thus opened the can of worms -- or moths in this case.

Here's a photo or two of what I'm working with. The shrinkage appears overall so guess the best thing is just lay the new mat in the car and cut to fit. With the front piece pulled all the way to passenger side sill it is still an inch away from the kickpanel area and not meeting the firewall pad either. Close to two inches off on the drivers side. I am still trying to decide what the square notches in the rear piece are for. The seat track extended is still a couple of inches away and didn't see anything obvious on the seat frame that it would need to clear.

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