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Old Jan 20, 2013 | 08:16 PM
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88 4wd Interior Carpet

Does anyone know anything about buying and installing new carpet?(lowest price,where to buy,molded or by the yard,how non molded,by the yard fits over hump and other uneven places)
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Old Feb 2, 2013 | 09:29 PM
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I bought carpet off eBay. It was right around $120 for pre-moulded.
It went in super easy, and the moulding matched up spot on!
I will share these few things I learned.
1-Unroll it and let it rest a day or 2 fully spread out.
2-The back (on mine) was matched up perfect for the contours of my floor and all the excess was in the front, there was enough extra to run up my whole firewall if I could have!
So see if the front or the back is already cut for your truck and then do all your measuring from there. And once it's all in cut off the excess from the other end.
3-the instructions with my carpet said a heat gun could be used for tighter fitting, I used a regular run of the mill heat guns 1-10 settings, started out on 4 and it started frying my carpet in about 30 seconds!
Luckily I was trying a test patch under my pass seat. I called the factory fit good enough & gave up trying to shrink it any more.
4-Look into something like dyna-mat, I also got a roll off eBay and put that down, it cut down road noise a lot more than I thought it would! I also put it inside the doors, all along the back wall & up into the firewall areas, it was well worth the money!!!
Hope this helps.
Oh and don't forget to mark all the holes, like seat brackets & seat belts! Doing them as you go is way easier than trying to go back and find them all.
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Old Mar 8, 2013 | 11:40 AM
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I just went to the home depot and bought an 24 by 12 foot section of carpet for about 50 bucks. and it did my my whole runner and the back side pannels. it looks pretty dam good if you ask me. if you want pics i can get some.
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Old Mar 8, 2013 | 12:26 PM
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Originally Posted by snow-runner
I just went to the home depot and bought an 24 by 12 foot section of carpet for about 50 bucks. and it did my my whole runner and the back side pannels. it looks pretty dam good if you ask me. if you want pics i can get some.
I am curious how to get plastic piece under pedals on drivers floor board on.I would like to see your pics..
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Old Jul 2, 2013 | 02:21 PM
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Originally Posted by snow-runner
I just went to the home depot and bought an 24 by 12 foot section of carpet for about 50 bucks. and it did my my whole runner and the back side pannels. it looks pretty dam good if you ask me. if you want pics i can get some.
Let see the pics!
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