Installed New Front Floor Mat

If you remember back to one of my previous posts (Ordered A New Front Floor Mat), I had bought and received a new Front Floor Mat


Well, today I installed it. The floor had been repaired by Maaco and then I put a layer of Fat Mat down to take care of noise and insulate a little.


Here's a picture of the floor with the Fat Mat

You can see that with the Gene Berg Shifter (or any quick shift kit) that I had to modify the mat to fit. This wasn't really a problem, you just have to be patient.

Around the hole where the shifter is supposed to slip down, I cut 4 slits about an inch long (basically at 12, 3, 6 and 9 o'clock).

I then slipped this over the shifter and was able to get it down to where it was as in place as possible. This mat was really flexible and easy to put in. I'd highly recommend it. It had pre-cut slits and holes for the pedals, steering column, heat duct and emergency brake.

When it was down, there was some buckling because it was caught on the shifter boot. I took a small pair of scissors and carefully and slowly cut around the shifter to fit the entire quick shift base.

Here's a picture of it in place:


Here's another picture. You can see the quick shift kit cuts I had to make.


All in all, this took about 10 minutes. I had been driving around with just the fatmat for a week so before I put it in I shop vac'd it and dried it out.

casey