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Morris

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Anyone know of a place I can buy individual pieces of a carpet kit? All I want is the parts that cover the hump and the parcel shelf.

I could easily make these parts myself, but I have enough on my todo list for right now. :square:
 
I bought extra carpet from Moss to match the carpet set. I am going to use it to carpet the cave in my BE.
Scott in CA
 
Do it yourself. I did my whole car and everyone loves it....even the guys who boguth the expensive Moss kit. I'll post some pics. ( but I gotta vacuum it first.)
 
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About $80 and a FULL seven days. This was my first attempt of roll-your-own carpet kit. Learned a few things and it will be better next time. This is just driver carpet. I have some wrinkles on the tunnel as I had to pull it loose to get at the trans bolts. I almost didn't pull the motor because of it. I'm leaving it loose till I build another motor. This carpet will stay in the car till I paint it. I have enough left over to do the car again, plus I can make replacements for areas that wear. (That is the biggest reason I did it myself.) Next time I'll use more and better padding (used what little jute they had left.) and it will be flawless.

I'm content for now, and eveyone that sees it likes it. Wrong time of day for pics. The direct sun washes out the color but you get the idea.

The key to a seemless look is how you hold the scissors when you cut.

Each piece was custom cut and fit probably an average of 5-7 times trimming to get it to fit/look right.
 
I think it looks first class.
 
looks great! tell me about the seats
 
Thanks Jack. I thought I could do it in a day or two. BOY, was I wrong!!!

Anyone notice anything?
 
JPSmit said:
tell me about the seats
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Yep, you got it. P.O recovered the seats. Stock seats that had headrests, but the P.O didn't cut the holes in the new covers cause they BUTCHERED the headrests when they tried to recover them. I love it w/o them and you couldn't pay me to install headrests on this car.
 
Carpet looks top drawer. Nice job.
 
The whole thing looks top drawer from where I'm looking. Beautiful! Is that orange that looks strange from this angle, or is it some sort of nutmeg color? It looks nice.
 
It's orange (slightly faded) but the sunlight is washing out the color with this cheap digital camera.
 
That ain't ornch... that's vermilion!

Looks great! Any tips on fitting the hump? It looks like one solid piece.
 
Morris said:
That ain't ornch... that's vermilion!

Looks great! Any tips on fitting the hump? It looks like one solid piece.
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t'aint vermilion, he only wants a couple thou.

In the kits, the hump is two pieces. One is from the back to just in behind the shifter. The next is from just behind the shifter to the front. I glued the back and velcroed the front.
 
Mine is one piece. I should have used dynamat or someother type of non jute padding as it's hard to get it wrinkle free w/o the jute separating.( glueing it down) Regular house padding would have been better for the tunnel. Fill in any ripples in the metal with padding and get it as smooth as you can. Cut a piece larger than you need, lay it on top and try to get an idea how it wants to lay, then start trimming. Might want to get the back of it hot in the sun so it will stretch better. Be careful what carpet you buy. Make sure it has a backing. The non backing "auto carpet" sold at Pepe boys and othe carpet stores doesn't have this backing and is crap. It's more of a felt and is used for speaker boxes. It lays down nice and easy, but doesn't hold up.

Take your time, it will take allot longer than you think, especially if you do it right.

I used 3M trim spray adhesive. Spray it down all over (the tunnel) and work it from the top of the tunnel to the bottom. Don't go front to back or vice versa.

Don't cut the shifter hole til the end. You might have to cut it a bit earlier to get some wrinkles out. Cut it smaller than you think you have to, then trim later if you have to. Mine is almost too big. You might have to work it backwards ( bottom to top) once you cut the hole to get some wrinkles out.

Pull down on it and stretch it while you stick it to the glue on the tunnel. You'll figure it out. I don't like the two piece look.

If you don't have a radio console it might be tough to get it right as I have a fold under mine ( that you can't see) that helped w/ the wrinkles. it doesn't go all the way forward there either.

If you can MS your car, you can do this.
 
Hold the scissors at a 45* angle to the piece you're gonna use, top blade away. The idea is to cut the backing smaller than the pile, this way, you won't see the seams when they butt up.
 
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