Carpet headache

[Norman AndersonParticipant]

If anyone has experience fitting a Coverdale carpet set to a RHD Light 15, please let me know.

I’m scratching my head. I managed to get this plan emailed over from Coverdale. It shows 4 straps. Where do they go?

The boot mat (no 12 in the diagram), has a cutout on the LHS, is this supposed to be for the filler neck? If so, it’s on the wrong side!

No. 11 on the diagram looks like the seat back? Yet there are no panels for the boot sides? Would that be correct? If so, that’s a pity, as it will leave the boot sides exposed and they look a bit miserable!

[Patrick Russell-JonesParticipant]

Hi Norman

Have you bought this set? My set was made by Coverdale but the front door card carpet strips weren’t quite right. The straps you mention seem to be from another car. The boot carpet is correct with the filler on the left for a Slough tank. I have side panels in the boot area but no carpet back for the rear seat. Andrew Galt ordered and fitted my set for me so you might give him a call and see if he uses a reference with Coverdale for the sets he wants.

Patrick

[John MoonParticipant]

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

[Norman AndersonParticipant]

Hi Patrick and John,

thanks for your advice.

some bits seem to make sense and fit well, but others are a complete nightmare, (like the front bulkhead – I can’t find anything that remotely fits this area).

Luckily the door cards were done by the chap that did the seat upholstery, so I don’t need these pieces.

I think I may try and locate a trimmer that’s familiar with Tractions that can finish this off before I tear my hair out! Any ideas? I live in Cambridge, so anyone within a reasonable radius will do.

John Gillard had a chap in London that did a reasonable job of the headlining. If I can track him down, he may be able to help.

[Patrick Russell-JonesParticipant]

Hi Norman

A couple of rather gloomy pictures from the footwell of my car. Hope these might help.

Patrick

 

[Norman AndersonParticipant]

Thank you Patrick, those images are really useful. If you have any more, please post them here or email to me at dapedza@yahoo.com

Appreciate your help. Norman

[John MoonParticipant]

My reply to this last week seems to have got lost, so I’ll repeat it.

No 4 covers the central part of the bulkhead.

No 3 is for the passenger side.

No 5 goes round the throttle.

No 6 is a fill in piece for the same side.

Hope this helps, and doesn’t disappear again.

[Philip Smith]

The 4 straps go on the backs of the front seat runners, stops you catching your feet on the metal parts, mine still had remnants of the originals, luckily.

 

I managed to fit most of the set ok but could not workout how the piece that runs across by the handbrake fitted, gave up in the end and cut up and used the piece elsewhere.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by Philip Smith.

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