Correct 914-6 carpet.....for a 70, Where is it, who has it Options

[puffinator]

Send it back to the factory for retro fitted hold down lugs ... you didn't get what you paid for (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

My '70 -6 has them

[rudedude]

My 6 has them

[euro911]

One of these guys should get his pay docked (IMG:style_emoticons/default/slap.gif)

[Mikey914]

Possible the floorboards have been replaced?
the later stamped ones do not have then in the pan.
The heal pad I can do. The problem is the factory carpets are molded. I'm working on doing the driver's side long molded as it's difficult to get it to glue it in correctly.
Mark

[porbmw]

Possible the floorboards have been replaced?
the later stamped ones do not have then in the pan.
The heal pad I can do. The problem is the factory carpets are molded. I'm working on doing the driver's side long molded as it's difficult to get it to glue it in correctly.
Mark

As far as I can recall, I have pretty well the entire set of 914-6 carpet from my original 6....and recollection tells me that the floor mats had a peculiar waffle pattern of wax/plastic like material on the back, to give the carpet rigidity...

I'll have to go check on it...and see about getting some pics in here ( I am a self professed luddite)...probably will beg off on my buddy Jake to send them.

This is one of those items that I'd bet the majority of members would like to have sorted out/replaced correctly....

When I get a chance to look at my daughter's 74, will see if the backing is any different from that of the 6

[rudedude]

I know this is an old thread but has any one found a good source for original 914/6 carpet? I just received a set from one of our trusted vendors who said it was an original match. They claimed it was made in house. It ended up coming from another well known upholster. It seems mostly correct but the vinyl heel pad on the drivers side looks unusual. I believe the original had 5 sections to it and this replacement has many lines embossed on it. It also has black binding and I think the original was a dark gray. Maybe my memory is starting to fail me. Any thoughts on what I am thinking?

[wonkipop]

I know this is an old thread but has any one found a good source for original 914/6 carpet? I just received a set from one of our trusted vendors who said it was an original match. They claimed it was made in house. It ended up coming from another well known upholster. It seems mostly correct but the vinyl heel pad on the drivers side looks unusual. I believe the original had 5 sections to it and this replacement has many lines embossed on it. It also has black binding and I think the original was a dark gray. Maybe my memory is starting to fail me. Any thoughts on what I am thinking?

see here. good discussion.

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...75369&st=20

a 6 would either have had needle loom (called perlon in the USA) or square weave woven pile (more expensive option). the particular thread or yarn the germans used was called hair yarn. it had white fibres mixed in to the wool. literally hair (horse hair and later goats hair). its a particular type of carpet yarn that was native to german carpet manufacturers. still available today. there are certainly car restoration businesses in the UK and europe that specialise in carpet sets for mercedes and porsche etc using these original materials.

as to the heel pad. you might have trouble getting someone to be able to exactly match that. one option is to see if you can get a second hand set of carpets and cut the heel pad out of that and have an upholsterer glue that in. thats what i did with my car which i converted to right hand drive and had to make a whole new carpet set for. the heel pad can be carefully removed from the original carpet.

[rudedude]

Thanks for that link, I hadn't found it. The picture of the floor mat confirmed what I thought of the heel pad I remembered looking like. I wonder why those selling supposedly correct carpet sets can't reproduce that. Now to find an original old floor mat.
Thanks