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My new B came with new carpets installed. Problem is "new" was installed 11 years ago. Carpets are absolutely perfect but the 1/4" orange foam padding has disintegrated from age. I removed all the carpets, scrubbed off all the residue from the padding. Washed with soap & water and a scrub brush on the driveway and hung on the cloase line to dry.

So now I have a new set of carpet again without padding and want to reinstall.

What should I use and how should I prep the floor or panels that they are going on.

The floors have some surface rust and the rubber sills are still decent. I just don't want to start gluing these down if I am going to have a major problem with it so I ask before I try and wing it.

Lastly since the sills are decent, are these sill rugs tossed or should they be installed. These carpets might be there a year or 10 not sure which direction the amount of re-doing this car is going to see.
 
If it were me, I would sand the floors and coat in POR15. It can be applied over light surface rust. I would then lay down some sound deadener / heat shielding (emphasis on heat shielding), then a thin layer of carpet padding and finally the carpet you just removed. I've found carpet to age very well if kept out of the sun so I'm sure it's fine. And you will probably put new top mats down in the foot wells anyway.
 
&, if you're talking about the rubber sill coverings, I like them better than carpet!
 
The floors still have the original sound deadening? between the ribs of the floor. Should this be removed or should I leave it? The floor is not that rusty but not sure what lies beneath.

I agree there is something to the rubber on the sills. Since they are in good shape I will probably leave them.
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]The floors still have the original sound deadening? between the ribs of the floor. Should this be removed or should I leave it?[/QUOTE]

If the metal around it is solid, I'd leave it...that stuff's a bear to remove as its glued to the floor...you can get it new to reglue down...but we're talking chipping & hammering and dry ice & cussin' & other machinations to get it all up!
 
I thought that is what I remember reading about on other posts. Now if I can only get the back screws outta these seats I can wash the last 2 pieces of carpet.
 
Oh what type of glue should I use? I have some 3M spray 90. Should I use it?
 
Can't agree enough with Tony about the asphault strips. What a PITA to remove.

I personally don't like to glue the carpet down to the floor. There should be snaps screwed into the floor pan itself. There are coresponding snaps on the carpet.

Just snap it down and you're good. Gravity takes it from there.
 
/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/iagree.gif No glue!
 
The carpets that came with the car are not eh snap down type. Also what do you do against the firewall and the pieces that are down by your as well as the pieces that go over the wheel wells? Did they snap originally?
 
I think I glued the sill covers and the firewall piece and maybe the read (lower) bulkhead cover down. The rest are snapped or just laying there.
 
Wheel arches & sill covers were glued. The rest were either snapped down or screwed in place.
 
Snaps are the preferred method. If the carpet gets wet, you want to be able to remove it before your floor pans rust away.
 
True true. Ya know I've kept most all the fasteners from the junkers. Is it easy enough to add them to my existing carpets or am I asking for trouble? I think the "male" portions are still in the car so I'd really only need to figure out the female part.
 
You will probably break the tabs on the female part if they are old. You can buy new ones at just about any classic auto supply.
 
Kick panels & other pieces up under the dash are held in place with little black screws that lose themselves in the carpet!

Rear wheel arches are glued.
 
Noop, glue.
 
When I disassemble MGB's that have the original carpet, its never glued - not even the kick panels & the others up under the dash....actually, the rear wheel arches aren't either (& they have that weird soundproofing under them - like brown grass)....sorry, that's my experience.
 
Sorry? feh. Don't be! I never pulled my original B's wheel arch carpeting. All were "formed" to the contour but not "investigated" well. Most of the B's I've done were easily suspect to having been "modified" after having left Abingdon. So you're saying the padding was just laid in without anything but the "underlapping" edges of the carpet holding 'em in place?
 
Vping, You might already have this in mind but to mark the spot where the upper snap goes, I lay the carpet in place, hold it so it doesn't slide, lift the area over the male snap and wipe magic marker ink on the top of it, lay the carpet down and press on it. It will transfer a perfect mark where the upper snap should go and no guessing.
 
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