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mikemcbride
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Location: Hillsboro, Oregon
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 Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:33 pm Post subject: tried an idea, what do you think? |
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ive been buidling my baja for the past year or so and i always had a bad moldy smell since it was a stock beetle. i looked through the entire car and couldnt find anything until recently i thought it couldve been the carpet floor mats. sure enough it was. now me being cheap as i am i decided to try to make my own pair. not out of carpet though. it, being a baja i figured itll get muddy, and wet and rubber would be the easiest to pull out and spray off.
here she is
this is what i am using
just pulled out the carpet
dropped it on top there and traced it. notice my very technical weights 
threw her in there and with a little trimming she fit pretty good!
cut a hole so the shifter could stick through and just zip tied it back up
what do you guys think? honestly, i dont care if you hate it lol
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pafree
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Location: dayton, the one in texas
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| Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 2:23 am Post subject: Re: tried an idea, what do you think? |
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| mikemcbride wrote: |
what do you guys think? honestly, i dont care if you hate it lol |
hate is such a strong word. practical yes but maybe it is the color. moisture will get trapped under the rubber. i do like the ideal and tractor supply sells a rubber mat to put in livestock trailers that we have thought of using like duck board but just for the floorboards and not the tunnel.
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sand it, fill it, paint it, throw some mud on it and then baja it. |
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tdonaldson
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| Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 4:05 am Post subject: |
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meh.
Aside from what pafree mentioned about trapping moisture it seems pretty cool. Easy to clean.
Some cheesehead put a thick rubber as flooring over diamond plate steel on my rail, it's all ate from having stuff trapped. But in your case it probably wouldn't be much worse than having rubber floor mats.
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Ken48442
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| Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 5:53 am Post subject: |
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I pulled the carpet out of my baja too. I used the stuff that pafree is talking about. I replaced my floorpans so I dont have any tarboard. I cut the rubber horse stall matt to cover the floor area and then used some inexpensive automotive carpet on the tunnel. The mat looks good, is very durable, and cuts down on road noise. If you want I can post a picture of what it looks like.
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pafree
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| Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 6:36 am Post subject: |
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| Ken48442 wrote: | then used some inexpensive automotive carpet on the tunnel.
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home depot and lowes some really nice outdoor carpet now instead of the just the green astro turf looking stuff. we did a manx style project with it and it turned out good. i think the main thing is to have it where it comes out easy so things can dry.
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shred625
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| Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 7:40 am Post subject: |
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As far as looks... sorry bro but that is hideous. I also think you are going to rot your pan with that on.
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