The carpet that's in my car now was ripped by the previous owner in the driver's floorboard area. It's a pretty big rip and the only way I can think of getting rid of it is to replace the carpet. If I found some grey carpet in a junked Max, how hard would it be to yank it outta there and put it in mine. Of course there's going to be some MAJOR cleaning of the new carpet, but I'm more concerned with the instalation and what it would involve.

 

removal of seats, all trim, center console and the carpet might be glued but probably not.

 

I re did all the carpet in my max and it is kinda a pain. If I were you I wouldn't even try to get carpet from a junk yard. You can get brand new carpet pre molded for the car for under $100. Believe me once you rip the carpet out of your car you will see how hard it is to do it without destroying it. Plus new carpet is always better. I know of two places that sell the carpet pretty cheap. You can get it from JC Whitney or from this site http://www.salesco.com . Good luck.

 

this is a cheapo idea, but what about sewing/stapling the tear shut, then buy a set of floormats and stick on top of it?


if you do choose to replace the carpet, (no preference here on new/used, except you have to remove the used stuff from the car too.. twice the work)

the carpet isn't glued in at all, but there are a few screws and tabs holding it down around the edges.
You'll have to remove all the seats (easy), door sills (easy), kick panels (easy), the plastic on the B Pillars (easy), center console (not bad), and the bottom of the center console around the dash (not bad)..

I don't think you'll have to remove andy of the heater ducts, but you may.
it's not a difficult job, just time consuming. it'll probably take you 1-2 hours to remove all the stuff from yout car just to get to the carpet.

 

the previous owner of my max (who happened to be my hottie teacher) had it professionally cleaned for 9 straight years and it has a very clean interior. with my friends and all the dirt they like to track into it i decided to put down another layer of matching black carpet from autozone. that cost me about $10. it looks good but it's not installed completely, like under the seats i just cut around the brackets and that's where it ends. around the console i just lifted the edges and shoved the carpet up there. not only did i do that but then i bought some cheap floor mats to protect the originals. flip the cheap ones over and it's a lot easier to clean the dirt off them and it looks cool. that's my suggestion... take it or leave it.

 

If I could do it, I would have already. It's a nasty wear hole that goes straight down to the metal floor. I don't know how the hell someone did that on a car that only had 70K on it when I bought it a couple of months ago, but damn! The hole is about 2.5" wide and about 5" long. It is next to the mat right up to the base of the console where the driver's right foot feeds the heafty max via the gas pedel. So, I don't really car about how long this would take to accomplish, I like doing this stuff, and I just wanted to get an idea if anyone had done it before. Thanks for the info.

 

The owner probably had a dog that they let ride around with them. You know the ones, where you pull up beside them and you could swear the dog was driving! Woof,Woof!

 

My carpet is clean as new @ 177k..but my prob is the 'deadpedal' pad and the pad in the bottom of the drivers side floorboard are coming off

 

or your car really has 370,000 miles and the odo was ran back. its possible

 

It's sad, and has happened. Our cars are one of the easiest I've seen that can be rolled back! Uh, I plead the 5th.

 

sadly, it is....your car could say 50K today, but it said 150K yesterday...