Mini car floor mats, any recommendations?

[notax]

Miss Notax is keen to get some floor mats for her Mini Cooper S, ideally carpet ones and of reasonable quality. There are various suppliers on Ebay, but can anyone make a recommendation? Thanks.

[MX-5 Lazza]

I bought some cheap mats from ebay. My advice is to spend a bit more and get some decent ones that have some way to fix them in place. Mine push forward under the pedals while I'm driving and I'm constantly having to pull it back into place.

[notax]

Thanks, makes sense I'll have to see what sort of retaining device there is in a Mini...

[Pip1968]

My wife has a Mini which has the same problem with its mats pushing forward. I popped into BMW for her and picked up new fixers that screw into the floor. These take the form of plastic discs that provide the hook part of a velcro attachment the other part being the 'hairy' material on the underside of the floor mats themselves. Incidentally the same method as in Porsche although the Porsche ones seem to work and these seem a little poor in comparison.

The discs given to me were a lot larger in diameter to the ones I replaced so perhaps a recall/improvement has been made. They work a little better but I think the weakness now lies in the the 'hairy' part on the mats. Porsche have proper loop stitches on the underside of the mats. Maybe BMW have improved the mats too but we did not change these. My wife's car is a 2006.

Pip

[pwbaines]

Hi
There are few things in life which are really worth what you pay for them, but manufacturers mats are one of them.
Always always try and get the original set if you can in the long run it pays off.
Paul