Car floor mats

[Station]

I don't think I've ever owned a car with properly fitted mats. My current car's mats (Tesco's 99p rubber ones) slowly rides toward the front, and ends up jammed behind the clutch pedal, making if difficult to change gear.

None of them ever really fit the contour of the bulkhead, with an unsightly bend that wears down quicker than the rest. The MG had OE rubber mats, which looked better than anything else after 12 years than cheap carpet ones.

[Tayne]

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[Albert Ross]

Only the ones in the Focus fit. ( I did skank them off the valeters at work like, they came in on a trade in, so they erm.... got lost.....) I binned the Scorpio Wilkos remould jobbies, as they held more grit than grip, and rode over the carpet, making it hard to get full throttle!

Land Rover has metal floors. No mats. YES!

[Father Ted]

The Zafira has proper Vauxhall carpet mats which the front ones are rather analy covered by a pair of easily 20 year old heavy duty Canon mats which though not for the Zafira fit quite well and can be cleaned by hose.

 

The Micra has a set of proper Nissan fitted jobbies which fit like a glove front and rear and have a big hole where the heel has worn through which is patched with a piece of Woolworths rubber repair sole.

[warren t claim]

I don't bother with them myself because they always seem to ride forward. I did have a set of pins for floor mats that stop that happening but I can't locate a set anywhere.

 

The best type of mats are the Volvo moulded trays.

[Richard]

Carpet mats are handy if you ever get stuck in snow, face down works better.

[FredTransit]

Got some big fook off ones for a 4X4 in one of the transits. There's so much room on the floor nothing usually curls up. They have rubber not carpet on the floor anyway, so until you get that nice layer of dust under em, mats don't slip too much.

[warren t claim]

Ever Transit I've owned has a 2" deep hole in the rubber and foam matting behind the throttle pedal.

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

the front ones are rather analy covered by a pair of easily 20 year old heavy duty Canon mats which though not for the Zafira fit quite well and can be cleaned by hose.

yes we have a set of those in the 306, very good they are too, they were originally purchased for a Mk3 Escort but seems to have fitted every car we've owned owned.

[Station]

Ever Transit I've owned has a 2" deep hole in the rubber and foam matting behind the throttle pedal.

Went round the scrappy on Monday and noticed that in all the workman orientated vehicles (astravans, etc). It's as if they're wearing spurs on the back of their shoes. Nothing can cause this much damage.

LOADS of dust in the air filter as well.

[oldford]

You need the Autoshite of floor mats:

 

 

They're so heavy that the stay put.

[autofive]

i ll bet they sell well in the gulf

 

"wipe your feet on great britain"

 

 

 

my car mats never fit properly

 

the last pair that fitted properly in my Cortina were liberated from a range rover

[Spiny Norman]

I had a set of nice posh fitted mats in my old Alfa 156 that I swear were better quality than any of the carpets in my house!

 

Of my current two, the Vauxhall has rubber mats I got at Morrisons for about £2.99 that slide all over the place but since it doesn't have a clutch I don't care, and the 'Zon has a pair of ancient but very heavy-duty Cannon-type things that add vital sound-deadening to the car.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

[Albert Ross]

Nice Mk2 there. You got a spare "basic" handbrake lever shroud at all, for my 89/90 G plate Sapphy?

[MK5 Escort]

My father had a set of rubber floor mats (with a square pattern on them) which he transferred from car to car over a period of just over 20 years. They started life in a Morris Marina and ended up, eventually, in a rather disappointing mk3 Golf CL. He’s gone all 'posh' these days with proper fitting floormats for most cars he’s had since.

 

Most cars I've owned have had floor mats from the manufacturers, but not necessarily for the exact car. They usually fit reasonably well, but quite embarrassingly for Autoshite, my current car does have a correct set of mats - sorry! If it comes as any consolation they come with the car and I do actually have an old scruffy mat which sits on top of my one as I was growing tired of scrubbing the thing every couple of weeks. Being an auto, it doesn’t particularly bother me if it slides around a bit.

 

Speaking of holes in carpets at the throttle cable, I once owned a Ford Ka which had a perfectly shaped stiletto heal hole right where the back of your foot would rest.

 

P.S - A very clean Sierra from the looks of it, oldford. Astral Grey Velour interior and Wedgewood Blue paintwork - but I suppose you already knew that!

[Pete-M]

My '85 SD1 has a set of properly fitting 'lambswool' rugs. Most un-Autoshitey.

 

The '82 has a rectangle of badly cut carpet slung in the drivers footwell and that's it.

 

The Escort has genuine Ford rubber mats.

[Lord Sterling]

I'm pretty much known as the floor mat connoisseur on the Rover800 site, I just love OE mats, I really think they make the car look a bit more cared for.

 

Years ago I bought some cheap generic mats for my Micra as from the dealer it only originally came with 2 small square Cannon-type mats that were too small for the footwell and moved about everywhere. The newer generic ones looked good atvthe time and lasted a long time. When I bought my Rover 827Si it came with 2 old bathroom floor mats, one rough door step mat and an old cut off of 70s style carpet. I had some cheap generic mats but they were too narrow and small, so it was either trial and error with generic shit or cheaper and easier with OEM mats.

 

After a few messages to some Rover 800 breakers on eBay I managed to find some OEM Rover 800 mats, it really transformed the interior, it just looked so nice, well kept, clean, posh and comfortable. Later on I decided to do the same for the Micra and got a hold of a set of OEM Nissan Micra mats that fitted perfectly and looked great.

 

For some reason even though I now had OE mats in both cars I still kept on looking and buying, even from cars that were being broken up. No idea why.

 

Incidently I actually ordered some top-qual mats from the Nissan dealershit, but upon arriving at the stealership I was confronted with 2 front sets which fitted perfectly, but the rear ones were some after-thought small square crap. Tried to return them, stealershit wouldnt have them back so I complained but unsurprisingly to no avail.

 

The Micra currently has a lovely clean set of OEM Nissan 'March' mats with rubber OEM mats on top. As well as that, there are 2 other OEM Micra mats sitting in my loft. My 3 Rover Sterlings all have their original deep pile/lambswool OEM mats with an OEM rubber mat for drivers footwell. My mk2 Sterling, in fact, came with 2 sets of OE mats, one normal carpet on top of the Lambswool, something you'd expect to find in an old-giffer car. I've got loads of OEM Rover 800 mats sitting in a cupboard along with a couple of OEM Nissan Micra mats.

 

Oh dear

[Station]

I visited the dealer before I did this and they were 50 quid for two. They make the difference. Mudflaps were expensive as well. They get snapped up immediately on ebay.

[Justin Case]

The autoshite way: Saab 900 mats in Alfa 156

 

 

and yes, I can still get the accelerator pedal to the floor (frequently )

[Cavcraft]

Astra has pound shop clutch-pedal-stopping-tastic crud things which are really annoying. I only leave them in as junior seems to get more oil on his boots (and face) at work than he does in actual engines.

 

Volvo genuine plastic ones are fantastic and seem to last forever. The carpet underneath the ones in my 1986 740 were still like new and the mats themselves were mint.

[saabhappy]

Saab has proper tailored mats (but not original Saab) and they fit perfectly. The Mazda 3 came from a dealership that used to sell Toyotas and has Toyota mats cut to size which fit like a dropped yoghurt.

[Rocket88]

An opppo of mine had a Mk3 Escrote estate where the rubber mats were "ahem" structural.we discovered holes in both the front footwells, so we glued the mats in, and shultzed the underneath before despatching it to the block..........

[Lord Sterling]

My cousin used to have a Rover 25 (still moans today that he wished he never sold it) I promptly bought him some tailored mats for it (when I used to have money to chuck about) but even though they fitted properly, they still curled up at the sides as they were made from cheap material.

 

Before he sold the car, he said he'd hand the mats back to me but unsurprisingly he forgot to take them out when he sold the car.

 

I recently bought some Rover 45 mats from a scrapped Rover 45 hatch. Not sure why but there ya go.