Next question! Carpet 'map'?

[tosoutherncars]

Hi all,

Next question! I bought a 16-piece carpet set, but I have misplaced the 'map' that came with it, showing the placement & installation order.

Would anyone have it online? I'm at chester_field [at] hotmail.com, if email is easier...

-D

 

[Guest]

Is that how many pieces there is, Duncan? No wonder my carpeting job seems endless. I'm doing mine the hard way. Unfortunately everything I have done to this Midget so far seems to have been the hard way.

Doesn't everything just lay in place, like OEM?

 

[tosoutherncars]

Well, it's not *quite* OE... the pieces that go over the curved section of rear inner wheel arch, for example, have deep cuts let into them, so that they can be glued into a curved shape. They're not backed, whereas everything else is... and any pieces with a showing edge are bound & edged.

Looks nice enough, and for $150 or so I figured it wasn't worth trying to do it myself! We'll see if that was a smart move...

 

[Luke_Healey]

Speaking of which, I saw someone selling cardboard templates on ebay for $35.00.

I want to recarpet my Sprite with my own carpet. Do any of you know of any 'carpet maps' with dimensions laid out? I'd like to cut and sew my own black carpet on the cheap and see if I can get decent looking results since there are no heat molded pieces necessary.

Here's his photo of the pieces laid out:

 

[tosoutherncars]

Ah! Bless you, Luke... Hmm, that puts a kink in my plans, since my P/s front pan is still in paint. It'll have to wait a day...

-D

 

[Luke_Healey]

All this carpet talk got me nosing around ebay and I wound up winning a black 16 piece set, myself. About half of the VB price. It's going to save me the headache of trying my hand at sewing carpet too.

 

[tosoutherncars]

In looking at that diagram, I don't think the nubers can be sequential... i.e. you'd want to put 14 and 15 on first before putting down 12, which would hide their edges.

Anyone have instructions that show order-of-operations?

Thanks,
Duncan

(slightly stoned on paint fumes, from having my head in the footwell while painting the floors)

 

[Luke_Healey]

Yeah, the order is not actual. I'd assume the center hump carpets and rear quarters defintely go in first.

I'm going to be velcroing mine in, so I can easily remove them. So I can experiment with the order until it looks right.

I'm going to sew fuzzy velcro to the backs of the carpet pieces in key places and then use adhesive backed hook velcro on the body to hold it in.

 

[jlaird]

Hump is last, cross members first, rear hangers second, the small bits next to the hump third or so then the rear wheel whells. then the bound parts.

 

[George Zeck]

Thanks for the great info. I get the car back in ~ 1 week. When I start the carpet, then move pice by piece. I should have done all of this in the fall ... I've lost valuable driving time.

Tx-

George Zeck