TVR Interior Carpet, Boot Carpet

[greyhulk]

Hi Guys,
firstly, im trying to find where to get hold of the brown interior ribbed carpet on my S, also the grey marled boot carpet, any ideas?


now the reason why i need such items.. Ive just fitted the new polished roof strutts, had a right palava the RH original hole was set so far in it was a workout to push the strutt up, no wonder my old strutt had buckled in the middle! So i ended up measuring the LH side and then RH side which was 2" out!


After fixing this issue & taking speakers out, i could see the holes which were cut for them (factory/previous owner?) were not even level plus in the way of the strutts (kind of sat over the LH one before) so now ill be either fitting smaller rear speakers or jut doing away with them completely & filling in the holes with some 1/4 ply & p40 bonding around.



Cheers
Steve

Edited by greyhulk on Thursday 17th March 17:48

[phillpot]

Steve I have some grey carpet that may be suitable for the boot.

[greyhulk]

phillpot said:

Steve I have some grey carpet that may be suitable for the boot.

Mike your a gent! Thank you, will have a gander when I pick up the brakes

Steve

Edited by greyhulk on Friday 18th March 06:47

[greyhulk]

Just a heads up guys incase anyone orders on instinct from wooliestrim, the 'Thin Ribbed Carpet - Brown' appears to be a like for like match on the photo but is much lighter when it arrives, luckily i asked for a sample first!
Next to try is 'segalmotortrimmings' who apparently supplied TVR interior material so will let you know if its a match, i presume most the other colours would be too.

[v8s4me]

Segal is where I got the vinyl when I had the centre console re-trimmed. They were very helpful and sent me 5 samples to choose from. One was a perfect match (colour and texture). There was quite a high minimum order value though IIRC.

[greyhulk]

Ahh I may be in luck with there sample then, well thanks to phillpot ive managed to fit the boot carpet today.
horrible lop sided speaker holes bonded in & carpeted over

[phillpot]

v8s4me said:

There was quite a high minimum order value though IIRC.

greyhulk said:

thanks to phillpot ive managed to fit the boot carpet today.

You wait until Greyhulk gets my bill !!!!

[greyhulk]

you adding vat on too mike?

[phillpot]

Not for cash, but don't tell the tax man





If you have no joy with Segal how about the guys working out of the old factory, DC Trim, someone told me they have a lot of "old stock" ?

Edited by phillpot on Sunday 20th March 18:58

[greyhulk]

will drop the carpets back up to you sometime, thanks again they look a treat! Just waiting on some leather piping off evilbay to tidy up the edges for a tidier job.

[Blue 30]

Martrim near Nantwich are one of the biggest stockists of materials/carpets/vinyl/leather. Worth a try ?
TerryB.

[greyhulk]

Blue 30 said:

Martrim near Nantwich are one of the biggest stockists of materials/carpets/vinyl/leather. Worth a try ?
TerryB.

cheers, will give them a try

Just received samples from 'Segal Motor Trimming', very similar to 'WooliesTrim', the brown is a couple of shades too light which is pretty noticeable.. Only other option would be a dark brown fabric dye

[phillpot]

greyhulk said:

c other option would be a dark brown fabric dye

Carpet dye

[greyhulk]

on point there mike, thanks, its definitely an option..
Ive just gave 'centraltvr' an email to see if they have any offcuts & waiting on samples from 'martrim' who also stock jaguar magnolia vinyl which is handy for re-trimming my inside targa panels

[v8s4me]

Don't use water-based dye which needs salt added to fix it. You do not need to know how I know this

[greyhulk]

v8s4me said:

Don't use water-based dye which needs salt added to fix it. You do not need to know how I know this

Nice one, I'm not even going to ask..

[greyhulk]

Just a quick update, having failed to find the correct shade of brown for the carpet (i tried everywhere!) i opted to try 'fabricoat' colour dye from furniture clinic £10 + £10 to colour match, i sent a sample to them & they matched it best they could, if im being honest it was a shade lighter & took me a couple times using nearly all the dye (even with penetrating fluid ) to achieve a close match.

admittedly its not the flawless finish a trimmer would achieve but its pretty good & finished off with some magnolia piping hides any carpet joins