body and interior Esty Carpet

[BlakeNelsonJr]

I will post more pics soon, but let me just tell you, I am MORE than happy with the product Esty provides. A great carpet kit that looks amazing.

 

HOWEVER!!!!

 

Next time I am going to buy her a plane ticket, put her up in a very nice hotel, and pay her to install it for me! The task itself wasn't crazy difficult, but it takes a very patient and dedicated person to do this! It was a lot of glue, a lot of bending uncomfortably, and a lot of "oh crap I forgot to cut out a hole for the seat belt receivers, and the seat rails". All in all, it wasn't too bad, but I am hoping that this kit lasts me the rest of my life so I dont have to do it again!

 

Side note: If you do a carpet kit, spend the 300 dollars and get dynamat for the entire interior. My ride to work this morning was nice and quiet. I have a magnaflow exhaust (That I do NOT want, i'd love to go back to stock) and it was still nice and quiet.

 

Thank you so much for your product and your help Esty. I love it!

 

[arminyack]

Looks awesome! My set came out very nice as well!

[BlakeNelsonJr]

Thank you! I smiled the entire drive to work today

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[conkitchen]

 

HOWEVER!!!!

 

 "oh crap I forgot to cut out a hole for the seat belt receivers, and the seat rails". 

A little trick I use is to apply a pick probe to locate them needed bolt holes and then follow that location up with a soldering iron (Ala Radio Shack) and melt a perfect clean and tight opening. 

 

But what do I know. 

[BlakeNelsonJr]

I did the first part of your trick, the 2nd part seems like the proper way to do it rather than dulling up 3 razor blades, but it worked. Haha.

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[LikeStig]

I was recommended to use Press and Seal roof flashing- apparently it does an equally good job as Dynamat for a fraction of the cost. Carpet (and your interior) looks great btw!

http://www.fjcruiserforums.com/forums/tech-articles-staging-area/153310-sound-deadening-noise-dynamat-vs-peel-seal-other-ideas.html

Edited March 24, 2016 by LikeStig

[BlakeNelsonJr]

Someone recommended that too late for me. Haha

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[bobthomas]

I use RamMat, much less expensive than Dynamat.  Pleased with results.

[esty]

Blake, you did a good job...it looks great

 

stay in touch

[snowy]

My esty went in great ,cept the transmission tunnel up near the fire wall was a bit long. I kept thinking I must be have got it wrong someplace but in the end just trimmed up. Very good product.

[BlakeNelsonJr]

Yes the transmission tunnel is long, if i had taken my heater box out, I would've installed it all the way up, but I did a lot of trimming and fine tuning, and it all went in great! I'm going to post pictures this afternoon!

[Tlambert]

On 3/24/2016 at 0:54 PM, BlakeNelsonJr said:

I will post more pics soon, but let me just tell you, I am MORE than happy with the product Esty provides. A great carpet kit that looks amazing.

 

HOWEVER!!!!

 

Next time I am going to buy her a plane ticket, put her up in a very nice hotel, and pay her to install it for me! The task itself wasn't crazy difficult, but it takes a very patient and dedicated person to do this! It was a lot of glue, a lot of bending uncomfortably, and a lot of "oh crap I forgot to cut out a hole for the seat belt receivers, and the seat rails". All in all, it wasn't too bad, but I am hoping that this kit lasts me the rest of my life so I dont have to do it again!

 

Side note: If you do a carpet kit, spend the 300 dollars and get dynamat for the entire interior. My ride to work this morning was nice and quiet. I have a magnaflow exhaust (That I do NOT want, i'd love to go back to stock) and it was still nice and quiet.

 

Thank you so much for your product and your help Esty. I love it!

 

Hey Blake , what seats are in your car?

[esty]

guys...how much too long is the front of the tunnel section, i'll start cutting them shorter,,,i assume the originals were long as well or the split at the top of that section made by BMW made it fit...i used an original piece for a pattern, sans the cut

[bmdubl02]

Nicely done, Blake. I installed Esty's carpet in my tii in 2013 and it took me a month..thought it would take me a week tops (yeah right)

but it made the interior night n day better. Of course, I bought new door cards, which meant the window roll up mechanisms were dealt with and lubed,

new weatherstripping below the door, et cetera, project took a life of its own, but the end result was worth it.

Your seats look identical to mine except for the color - Recaros from a 320i.

Edited June 4, 2017 by bmdubl02