Rubber Floor Mats?

I love Weathertech Floor Liners, but they don't make them for my e36, so I have WeatherTech All-Weather mats.



You really should never put mats on top of other mats. Nor do I understand why you would want to.
 
nick@autoality said:
I love Weathertech Floor Liners, but they don't make them for my e36, so I have WeatherTech All-Weather mats.



You really should never put mats on top of other mats. Nor do I understand why you would want to.
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:up I agree and they look good too.
 
I really like the WeatherTech floor matts, they are awesome quality and the fit is great. I think they contour the interior better than the Husky ones.
 
I really like my Weathertech mats...not cheap, but neither is trying to remove salt, stains and musty smells from carpet.
 
I put these generic (wal-mart... I am cheap!) heavy rubber mats over my carpet 365 days a year. I live in Florida. Here, they are more useful during the summer months when it rains almost everyday. Even if you walk on concrete sidewalks and paved roads all day, you'd be surprised how much mud and other nasty stuff you can track into your car after some rain. Rubber mats are definitely worth it.



Make sure you get the nice heavy kinds with deep "wells" or other features to hold liquid, rather than allow it to slide off onto your carpet. Heavy mats (or mats with OEM hooks) also prevent a condition I see in many leased BMWs and some other vehicles as a valet - people who buy cheap, floppy rubber or vinyl mats, and end up with a large mass of bunched mat under the brake pedal! This is NOT safe for obvious reasons! :eek:



I do have to say, though, that I did have to "customize" my driver's side a bit using a hacksaw. Reason being that as they were, it wasn't allowing my clutch pedal to go all the way down, making it tough to start the car. After cutting that bit out, I was fine.
 
Just got my WeatherTech Liners (NOT MATS) for my Blazer and they fit great. They actually fit PERFECT. They fit all the contours of the floor and side moldings. If I remember I'll post some pics.
 
dbackfan said:
For anyone that has had both Husky and Weathertech, which ones do you prefer? They seem very similar.
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This reminds me that I still have the Husky ones sitting in their box :o I was gonna compare the two but I've just stuck with the WeatherTech liners.



Wild guess: it's gonna depend on the vehicle as some matts/liners are gonna work better for a given application/pattern than others.



Sheesh...I really oughta get out those Huskies and then I could at least tell ya how the tow compare in a Yukon/Suburban.



The only issue I have with the WeatherTechs is that with the adj. pedals in the closest-to-firewall position, the presence and thickness of the liner interferes with/prevents the last iota of accelerator pedal travel. You'd have to adjust the pedals out towards the driver for drag racing but it's not an issue most of the time.



If I finally get off my can and test-fit the Huskies, I'll post back; maybe this'll motivate me.
 
I can't believe any body with an Autopia car mentality would even consider NOT using rubber mats in the car. Would you walk around in your house with your filthy shoes on? I wouldn't and I look at the carpeting in the cars the same way.
 
Anthony A said:
I can't believe any body with an Autopia car mentality would even consider NOT using rubber mats in the car. Would you walk around in your house with your filthy shoes on? I wouldn't and I look at the carpeting in the cars the same way.
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Heh heh, see...one more example of my Autopian Heresy!



No rubber mats in either the A8 or the S8. OK, the latter seldom goes out in nasty weather, but Accumulatorette drives the A8 daily year-round. Still running the original carpet mats, I just extract/etc. them as needed. But I guess our shoes never get all that "filthy" during the activities that car is involved in.



Actually, I don't think I wear filthy footwear in *any* of our vehicles, I take off my boots/etc. and change into something else when I've taken the dogs out in the winter, even though those vehicles have rubber mats.



But you know how it is in winter weather, some stuff's gonna get tracked in.



But for that matter, speaking of houses, our dogs have a dogdoor, and we live in a woods, so they can track in some real messes. Same as with the car's floormats, I just clean things as necessary.



Not that I consider the floormats in our drivers to be in the same league as antique rugs, but still, I don't sweat it, that's what I buy extractors for...
 
Anthony A said:
I can't believe any body with an Autopia car mentality would even consider NOT using rubber mats in the car. Would you walk around in your house with your filthy shoes on? I wouldn't and I look at the carpeting in the cars the same way.
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I like them in the SUV but in the cars, they look tacky to me. Carpet looks better. Not sure if its psychological or not, but it seems that carpet makes the interior more quiet.
 
2010 Accord - Honda all-weather mats 80% of the time. Griot's rubbercleaner once a week, little diluted 303 to keep marks away (not really slippery). Carpet ones for special occasions...lol.
 
It just occurred to me this morning that I sorta think of the floormats in my vehicles about the same way I think of the "mud rugs" in my house; they're there to protect whatever's underneath them more than to look nice in-and-of themselves.
 
Accumulator said:
It just occurred to me this morning that I sorta think of the floormats in my vehicles about the same way I think of the "mud rugs" in my house; they're there to protect whatever's underneath them more than to look nice in-and-of themselves.
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Thats how I look at it.
 
mrmatt said:
Wanted to see how many Autopian's put down rubber floor mats over their carpet floor mats in their car?
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Matt, during the winter season we remove the carpeted floor mats and use some form of an all-season mat. I've tried a bunch of brands/variations, none are perfect.
 
tom p. said:
.. I've tried a bunch of brands/variations, none are perfect.
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I sure wish "bad weather mats" would better accommodate the dead-pedal area. Other than my "liner mats", which aren't available for most cars, none of them work well for avoiding nasty messes there...if not the dead-pedal itself, the area around it always ends up needing a lot of attention.
 
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