Reply To: Carpet headache

Hi Norman

I have a set from Coverdale and, although it isn’t fitted properly yet, I have been in touch with Coverdale as I trial fitted the pieces.

The 4 straps:  I was told that some cars had 1 of these on either side of the dashboard.  They will not fit my 52 Light 15, so I assume they are for a different model year.  They effectively join the carpet on the sides of the footwell to the windscreen surround.  I do not know why they supply 4.

I came to the conclusion that both 2 and 12 were for the boot floor, but to different customer/car requirements.  The filler neck on the LHS is for small boot cats, I believe your’s must be a Big Boot with the RHS filler neck.  No 2 seems to fit the boot as well, but is obviously designed to go with side carpets (not supplied) as its narrower.  I have no idea what the extra tab/cutout (on 2) on the LHS is for, it must have been something in a particular customers car?  I intend to use either 2 or 12 for the boot floor and the other to make pieces for the sides.  I sent Coverdale patterns for the sides, suggesting they only supply 1 floor and perhaps the sides in future.

From Memory, 11 is the rear footwell, and 10 is for the seat runner “box”.

Referring to Patrick’s reply, my bottom door pieces were wrong (too short) so I contacted the company with new patterns and they supplied new ones, which do fit correctly.  Try yours for size to check you have the correct ones.

Finally, I had several conversations with Coverdale and actually spoke to Ian who cuts out the carpets, and found them helpful.

Hope this helps

John