Stripped Rear + Carpet

Craig_B

Craig_B

Has anyone done this? I'm fancying taking the rear seats out and carpeting the floor, as i don't want the metal showing. Then being able to put the seats back in when resale comes along (long time yet)

Also having some harness's. Do these go through a MOT ok? if they are fixed to the correct points?

I don't ever really use the rear seats, only once in a while i have one passenger who sits in the back. Just don't like having a full car, don't know why.

Any help/pics would be great
 
I tried it with a decent acoustic style carpet (they type found on sub boex etc...) and it was OK. Never took pics though and it never stayed as I liked the hardcore look lol!
 
If u do this you will have to get some pics up because im after doing the same.
 
if u take the rear seats out ur only left with the beam and a patch the size of the bottom cushions, if i was u i wld remove the beam and take it to a proper interior place to size/ make u up some carpet and use Velcro to hold it into place? wldnt bother glueing it down because it will be a sod to remove when u do come to sell.

if you do remove ur rear seats thou remember to remove the seat belt clip thingy ( bit the buckle clicks into!) then they cant fail it on a MOT.
also someone correct me if im wrong but u can only have a 3/4point harness to get through a MOT, 'as u have to be able to undo it with one hand' .... hope this helps mate
 
I have also been thinking about doing this for the exact same reasons! lol I want it to look neat and tidy in the back so I've been trying to think of different ways to go at it, proper carpet place is a good shout, at least then it will fit properly and look professional. I may have to give this a go soon :smile:
 
I did in my 197, I work for a car company manufacturing motor vehicle interior fabric, so just got some (scrap) :wink: from work and double sided taped it onto the floor of the car, fitted ok.

Took it out after a while as the back seats look better in as all the parcel shelf footings look weird ub filled etc....

Have got some pictures somewhere, will post when on computer and not phone
 
Was gonna say, speak to Will CS197. I thought it looked pretty good imo. Id be tempted to do it again tbh and get Will to sort me some carpet out :wink:
Id also add a rear strut brace for the looks of it too.
 
Here are the pics,
Sorry if they are dark, they were taken on the iPhone ages ago as the seats are all back in now, the stuff I used was about 6-7mm thick, was kinda hard to mould to the uneven floor, so if I did it again I would get the plain fabric, not the finished product.

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I painted all the metal clips which you can see as silver in the 1st 2 pictures, these hold the seats, just used some hammerite so they blended in.
In the last picture I cut a piece on the material to go in the boot space so the colour blending if anyone looked through the window

Will
 
Harpham said:
Was gonna say, speak to Will CS197. I thought it looked pretty good imo. Id be tempted to do it again tbh and get Will to sort me some carpet out :wink:
Id also add a rear strut brace for the looks of it too.
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See what I can do pal, and I thinking of strut brace too, but i didnt want to chop away at the carpet to make it fit. suppose I could of cut it like a flap and then taped it down if I ever sold it....
 
Will CS197 said:
See what I can do pal, and I thinking of strut brace too, but i didnt want to chop away at the carpet to make it fit. suppose I could of cut it like a flap and then taped it down if I ever sold it....
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That's what someone has just done with the UltraRacing Brace. DanT is it?

You could take off those carpets aswell and re-carpet them aswell as the floor. When you sell the car you can put the Standard carpet back in maybe
 
Yeah, value my seats more now, without the seats people can see into the boot etc.... I'll leave it for now :wink:
 
Nah it was wedged inbetween a bar behind the seats and the rear boot trim, wouldnt move, also the net was so tight it didn't slide.

If you felt the weight of the alloy you would understand and the rubber tyre grips the carpet :wink:
 
Will what is that ridge between the boot area and the rear seats you have layed the carpet over, cant that be removed?

Im interested in this however i fear the extra drone/noise would soon put me off. I think i would have to figure some means of sound deadening first and then carpet over that.
 
I have a standard exhaust and couldn't notice the sound difference tbh, I did travel to Devon with them out, had stuff in the back some of the time but wasn't annoying. The bar is supposed to support the seats I believe, taking them put is a 5 min job, the seat belt clips take longer but if you take seats out you can have a look if the bar does come out as I can't remember :-0
 
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