"Moldet carpet"!?????! installation

convertible 63 · July 28th, 2009, 10:44 AM

Hallo to all restorers

Claudia & me bought a molded carpet in the US for our Olds.The preowner did a terrible job with a cheap warehouse-carpet and alloy sheets

The molded carpet should have fit perfect,we`ve been told.It did not!After 2 hours without any positive result i got an idea.I put the carpet upside down on the (clean) floor beside the car and started to mellow a halve side carefully with my hot-air gun.Forth and back and forth and back and......After a few minutes the carpet became quiet soft,the factory molding was still to see.Very quick i put the sheet into the car and started my pre-molding right in the floor pans and over the ather parts.It worked well and after the first side was fixed i did the other.
The back side is almost transparent,any kind of glue that made it able to form the carpet.I`m shure this stuff is what makes it able to mold the sheets.And this is the part that gets mellow.The surface hasn`t got any marks and looks still as we got it from the manufacturer.

I hope my little report will help you on your project.

See you,Claudia&Martin

ent72olds · July 28th, 2009, 06:14 PM

Thanks for the tip Claudia & Martin....will be useful to all. I'm guessing you are French Canadian....? Perhaps, Montreal, Quebec?

convertible 63 · July 29th, 2009, 12:52 AM

Good morning Erik

We are from Schramberg,Germany.It`s a small town in an area in the south of our country, called the Black Forest.
BTW:The carpet is from "LONESTAR CAR PARTS"Houston.It`s in very high quality.We bought it in original GM Blue.The colour is shiny as should be in a shiny blue car.129,95$ is quiet a low price for that huge piece,(came in two pieces,one front,one rear).I think it is impossible to mold carpets perfect to the manufacturer with all the angels,ups and downs,sills....we`ve got in our cars.LONESTAR did it`s job as good as possible.

Claudia&Martin
1963 F-85 Convertible

July 28th, 2009, 10:44 AM	#1 (permalink)
convertible 63 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Schramberg,Black Forest,Germany Posts: 53	"Moldet carpet"!?????! installation Hallo to all restorers Claudia & me bought a molded carpet in the US for our Olds.The preowner did a terrible job with a cheap warehouse-carpet and alloy sheets The molded carpet should have fit perfect,we`ve been told.It did not!After 2 hours without any positive result i got an idea.I put the carpet upside down on the (clean) floor beside the car and started to mellow a halve side carefully with my hot-air gun.Forth and back and forth and back and......After a few minutes the carpet became quiet soft,the factory molding was still to see.Very quick i put the sheet into the car and started my pre-molding right in the floor pans and over the ather parts.It worked well and after the first side was fixed i did the other. The back side is almost transparent,any kind of glue that made it able to form the carpet.I`m shure this stuff is what makes it able to mold the sheets.And this is the part that gets mellow.The surface hasn`t got any marks and looks still as we got it from the manufacturer. I hope my little report will help you on your project. See you,Claudia&Martin

July 28th, 2009, 06:14 PM	#2 (permalink)
ent72olds Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: LI,NY Posts: 786	Thanks for the tip Claudia & Martin....will be useful to all. I'm guessing you are French Canadian....? Perhaps, Montreal, Quebec? __________________ Erik Turner 65 Vista Cruiser 72 Cutlass

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July 29th, 2009, 12:52 AM	#3 (permalink)
convertible 63 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Schramberg,Black Forest,Germany Posts: 53	Good morning Erik We are from Schramberg,Germany.It`s a small town in an area in the south of our country, called the Black Forest. BTW:The carpet is from "LONESTAR CAR PARTS"Houston.It`s in very high quality.We bought it in original GM Blue.The colour is shiny as should be in a shiny blue car.129,95$ is quiet a low price for that huge piece,(came in two pieces,one front,one rear).I think it is impossible to mold carpets perfect to the manufacturer with all the angels,ups and downs,sills....we`ve got in our cars.LONESTAR did it`s job as good as possible. Claudia&Martin 1963 F-85 Convertible