Well those hows achieved .... all the floor pan, bulk head and front wheel arches covered in underlay/sound proofing. A bit patch work as the set I picked up free with a carpet set wasn't quite a full set, some bits missing but some extra bits as well. A nice bit to go on the back of the rear seat and some extra rectangles which will go on the rear wheel arches. But flexed my mild upholstery skills and cobbled it all together, it's under the carpet so all is good.
Then the next day was time to dig the 2 carpet sets out and make a decision which one to use? I realised with my bespoke seat mounts this job wasn't just a question of throwing the carpets in and job done. I found a nice bit of card and slowly cut a template. It was close, so made a few extra lines to get it more accurate and set uo on the garden table ready to destroy a perfectly good carpet. Bit of a stare and I started getting twitchy, tried talking the neighbour into doing it so I could blame him if it went wrong :) then it was time for food. After tea I had to just get on with it, with some strategic cuts, I left a little wiggle room and trimming for when the carpet was in.
It didn't go to bad. With the rear carpet finally in attention was turned to the front wheel arches. Not quite happy with the fit I did some small re trimming and some relief cuts to stop it creasing up on the floor curve. With those glued in place I got my eldest so he could take the glory of fitting the last bit of carpet. It turned out it needed both of us to wiggle the carpet in place. The front brackets next to the tunnel where now very tight. Might have something to do with me double lining the tunnel with underlay to keep a bit of the exhaust noise down. But, that is just about all the carpet done and I even put the fresh air vents on. More just so I didn't knock them off and tread on them!
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