QUOTE(tomh @ Nov 1 2016, 12:02 AM)
QUOTE(cuddyk @ Oct 30 2016, 09:26 PM)
I started with the side pieces first (the ones that start at the sill plate and go down to the floor pans. The driver's side is tricky since the steel has a contour for the E-brake. You'll need to carefully make some relief cuts for it to lay flat.
I used loctite carpet adhesive. Worked great.
The 3M spray adhesive was recommended to me, any draw backs to using that product that any of you know of.
So your saying the drivers side should be cut for contour releif,doesn't the carpet kit compensate for that or is that a trick that needs to be done.
Not sure which carpet kit you have, but in mine, the pieces arrived dead flat. The "dimple" for the e-brake has several contours (up / down and side to side). So, my carpet needed some cutting along the contour lines so it would lay flat against the dimple with no wrinkles.
No real trick. Just takes time and patience.
If your carpet is flat like mine, the best way I've found is to glue the vertical part between the rear firewall and where the e-brake dimple is first. Then test fit the carpet in the dimple without glue. You'll see that it wants to bunch up. Where the carpet "folds" on itself is where you'll need to make the relief cuts. Make them a little longer than the "folds" themselves. But go slowly...one area at a time. After you make a cut, you'll see that the carpet on both sides will lay flat, and the edges of the cut you just made will overlap each other. Glue down the flat parts, and once set, make a single cut through the overlapping material. This insures that both sides of the "fine" cut are a perfect match. Then just carefully glue down the edges of the match cut and work together with your hands till it's invisible. Easy Peasy.
The only real "trick" is to use a very sharp, very new box-cutter blade for EACH cut. You MAY get two cuts out of a blade. If you try to use the blade more than that, you risk tearing the carpet or having to run the blade through the material several times, which makes it hard to achieve that "match" cut.
PM me if you have any other Qs!