Tips For Installing Auto Carpet

6 tips to a quality molded carpet installation 1.

Tips for installing auto carpet.

Avid classic car enthusiasts will eventually need to replace carpet in one of their cars. Using the old car carpet as a template trace the cutouts onto the new carpet with chalk. Buy quality parts in the means of carpet quality is not hard to come by. We will be working on a 1966 442 tri power oldsmobile convertible.

I promise you are wrong. Installing cut sewn carpet sets presents different challenges then molded carpet sets. We always use 3m 08090 super trim adhesive. Vacuum the floor pan and check for rust.

Replace the seats console electrical connectors and trim. Also you probably lined those screws up in a place. This glue gives you plenty of time to work the carpet before a permanent bond takes place. Companies like ecklers year one and.

Treat rusted areas with a rust converter such as loctite extend or naval jelly and paint them with a rust inhibiting paint. Put carpet in car making sure that you have positioned the carpet properly. Organize your parts outside of the car. Form and relax the carpet using a hand held steamer gluing and trimming carpet and how to make dimmer switch holes that won t fray at the edges.

Buy the fitted carpet. The heel protector pad should always be on the left hand driver s side. Mark simpson explains how to prepare the interior position and place the carpet while hot rod builder gary simpson demonstrates how to. If there is an option between molded carpet and standard flat carpet buy the molded.

We always install dynamat sound deadener on the bare floor first. You have purchased a carpet that may require holes for a floor shift emergency brake or the 4 wheel drive transfer case.