Bit Of Mirror Polishing PG39

looks nice Ceri, be great to see it in the flesh at some meets next year, but looks so fresh and crisp and that new carpet looks great too !

worth the way aye fella :-)

Rich

Excellent job on the interior. Looks like brand spanking new!!
Well done…

PNERivage said

send us the pics of it mate, no rush… I'm skint

Yeah ill sort some pics out for you.

Im in no rush to get rid of it anyway mate.

richyhill - Shughy Cheers for the comments.

It really has freshend the interior.

The carpet has made a massive difference.

Yeah im looking forward to some meets next year.

Next on the list for the car is fresh paint and wheel refurb.

Interior looking superb mate

Did you get your carpets from Newtons ? If so is it good quality ?

What do you think about red carpet in a red sportline, or is that to much red ?? as I will get my carpets replaced sometime and wondered  whether to change from black to red  :dontknow:

Chris

someone else on here put a red carpet in thier spotline and i think it went well and really set it off, depends on whether you are trying to stick to original or not

BigNormRivage said

PNERivage said

send us the pics of it mate, no rush… I'm skint

Yeah ill sort some pics out for you.

Im in no rush to get rid of it anyway mate.

Did they cut it up in the end? I still want it….

Did they fit your carpet?

Massbad69 said

Interior looking superb mate

Did you get your carpets from Newtons ? If so is it good quality ?

What do you think about red carpet in a red sportline, or is that to much red ?? as I will get my carpets replaced sometime and wondered  whether to change from black to red  :dontknow:

Chris

Cheers for the comment mate.

Yeah the carpet was from newton commercial.

Its not as good as the factory fitted carpet but for the price you cant complain.

I would defo use them again for another carpet.

As for going for the red carpet i think that would look very nice.

As said tho it depends if you want to keep it as standard as possible.

Ceri.

PNERivage said

BigNormRivage said

PNERivage said

send us the pics of it mate, no rush… I'm skint

Yeah ill sort some pics out for you.

Im in no rush to get rid of it anyway mate.

Did they cut it up in the end? I still want it….

Did they fit your carpet?

Its been cut a bit but not as bad as i thought.

I quickley looked at it and its just been cut at the seams from what i can see.

http://www.newtoncomm.co.uk/cars/vw/product.jsp?ref=3199&model=25&series=134&type=1

These are well worth a look as they do all the bits for the seats.

It looks really nice.
Well done.

The misses was working today so i decided to fit the new floor and sides for the boot that i made a while ago.

Got them all in place but i wasnt happy with how they looked.

These are the sides and floor i originally made, they looked ok out of the car but once fitted they didnt look right.









As you all know the original side panels dont cover all the metalwork and it looked a bit tatty / unfinished once fitted.

I managed to get some carpet from where i work (its a new store and the shop fitters left some carpet behind)

So i set to work making the new floor, sides and back of the boot.

This is an offcut of the carpet i used, its got a deep pile and foam backing to keep it more rigid.





After a few hours of cutting and fitting, followed by more cutting and fitting this was the outcome.



Right corner of boot.



Left corner of boot.



Im very happy with how it turned out.

It looks a lot neater than how it originally was.

Comments welcome.

Bloody good job mate, gonna be a bit dark in there though, are you going to accommodate the light?

T

Tian said

Bloody good job mate, gonna be a bit dark in there though, are you going to accommodate the light?

T

Thanks mate.

To be honest i completly forgot about the light.

On my next day off (wednesday) im going to be cutting a little hole where the original light would have been and reconnecting it.

Ceri.

No worries, it looks ace!

T

Nice job mate, looks well tidy

Bought some pedal rubbers off ebay and they dont look to bad.

Will be fitting them one day this week.

I got a set of these in grey last year. Top tip, before you try and fit them get them nice and warm with a hairdryer otherwise you'll struggle.

T

Tian said

I got a set of these in grey last year. Top tip, before you try and fit them get them nice and warm with a hairdryer otherwise you'll struggle.

T

Cheers Tian, that was going to be my next question lol.

Hi, how did you do your boot cards, did you stick the carpet that you had to the card/ (board from b&q) or did you just use the carpet alone, just that i am wongering what to do about mine i still have the orginal card and wondering to make new ones and cover them. cheers Dave

Ginner said

Hi, how did you do your boot cards, did you stick the carpet that you had to the card/ (board from b&q) or did you just use the carpet alone, just that i am wongering what to do about mine i still have the orginal card and wondering to make new ones and cover them. cheers Dave

I did originally mate new side cards and floor from mdf and covered them in blue cloth but i personally didnt like the look once fitted.

If you look back through my thread you can see some pics of them.

First i made the floor and fitted in, then measured up the rear panel which i made a little bit bigger (by doing this i fitted it without glueing it in place. it fits nice and snug and doesnt move what so ever.)

I then made the sides which once again i made a bit bigger.

These are held in place by 2 cable ties where the original cards would have been held ( cable ties cant be seen due the deep pile on the carpet)

By carpeting the whole boot i was able to cover all the bits of metalwork that the original cards dont cover.

Heres a slightly better picture.