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carpet size
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 2:54 pm
by gluck
As i'm ever student the renewal of the carpet set for the car is a little expensive so i'm looking for the measures of the differents parts to cut it myself in a blue carpet. Could someone help me?
The car is a 1970 twoo door saloon.
RE: carpet size
Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 12:13 am
by Shawn
G'day,
I'm currently working on a replacement set for my 1958 4 door saloon. It's about my least favorite job, but replacement sets aren't readily avail here, are a bit expensive and in the wrong colour. If you've still got the original carpets you can use them for templates (I'm guessing you don't). I made templates and took heaps of measurements. Please use these as a guide only and check everything before you start cutting.
I started with a length of 4000mm of a quality wool blend household carpet roll (which I can't remember but I think was 1500mm wide.) This is probably a lot more than you need. I'm going to make floor mats and keep some for spare. I found a carpet dealer who let me look through his offcuts and end of rolls - got the lot for $25.
I worked on a total carpet width of 1620mm for the front floor. This did not include the vertical and horizontal sill pieces. The cut outs for the front wheel arches reduce the width to 870mm at the front-most edge. (where the parcel tray joins the firewall) I used a length of about 870mm (from front most edge to under front seats)
The rear was a similar width of 1680mm, I allowed a length of 800mm (from the frontmost edge of the back seat to under the front seats.
These lengths give an overlap of about 150mm under the front seat front mountings.
Also, if you're using household carpet, which is less flexible, pay attention to the 'grain' of the carpet. It's better to have the thicker weave in the backing material running across the car where the curves are gentler (across the transmission tunnnel) and along the length of the car on the sill panels, which have to bend more sharply. Test it by bending in your hand and see if the backing is visible through the pile.
Take your time with the cutting and stitching...it's tedious.
Good luck
S