A few weeks with weather tech floor mats

**dennis hiip** · 02-19-2018, 02:11 PM

I can`t live with rubber mats in my Benz. OEM carpets and keep them clean for me.

**Accumulator** · 02-19-2018, 03:54 PM

Originally Posted by dennis hiip

I can`t live with rubber mats in my Benz. OEM carpets and keep them clean for me.

That worked fine for us in the A8 for a long, long time.

**pwaug** · 02-19-2018, 06:05 PM

Originally Posted by dennis hiip

I can`t live with rubber mats in my Benz. OEM carpets and keep them clean for me.

I prefer carpet mats also, but with the sloppy winters here in SW PA you really need some protection or the entire carpeting gets wet. So I just put the carpeted mats in from April thru November.

**Accumulator** · 02-20-2018, 10:23 AM

Originally Posted by pwaug

I prefer carpet mats also, but with the sloppy winters here in SW PA you really need some protection or the entire carpeting gets wet..

Or else you need to do something almost daily. Doable IME, but a hassle to say the least. Thinking on this, I can`t say that we`ve ever had the carpet (other than the mats) get wet though.

**Desertnate** · 02-20-2018, 02:54 PM

I personally despise cloth car mats in winter conditions. I found the salt, sand, mud, etc made them really hard to clean up. If a car came with them, I`d use them until they wore out and I`d promptly move on to some rubber mats I can easily hose down, wipe off, and put back in the vehicle.

My wife is now running Weather Tech`s in her vehicle and loves them. We`ll never go back.

With my GTI the car came with both their OEM "Monster" all weather mats and the carpeted ones. I swap them out now at the same time I do my summer and winter wheels. The carpeted mats look better, so I have the best of both worlds!

**skibik** · 02-20-2018, 06:07 PM

I bought Weather Techs for my Camaro 5 years ago and last year I plum forgot to take them out and put the carpet mats in for the summer. I can`t believe how nasty they look after the winters are over and I am very happy I bought them. Mine would likely only hold not quite a 1/2" of water before spilling over the tab holders but that is plenty as I never got them that wet. I am just glad I don`t have to try and clean the carpet mats and the outside of the carpet around the cloth mats so I was glad to pay the price of them.