Carpet Conundrum

Carpet Conundrum

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Fat Richie

Original Poster:

1,271 posts

218 months

Thursday 8th March 2007
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SWMBO has been complaining about to state of the carpet in our Mini so I’ve now got permission to spend some money on a new one.

Someone “upgraded” the old girl (the car, not the wife!) with the complete interior from a Mayfair. That’s mostly gone, the seats and the door cards have been replaced with a half-leather interior from a late model Cooper in black with red piping (which nicely matches the Damask Red paintwork).

The dilemma is: red carpet to match the red paintwork or black carpet to match the interior? Which does the panel think will work best?

dark_helmet

302 posts

213 months

Friday 9th March 2007
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either looks ok, the red makes it look more cooper ish, but they get covered in poop easily, where black looks better for longer. Go for a combo, get the red base carpet and black mats :-) I have tan and black in my other car and it looks nice. I was sick of the tan mats looking dirty.

love machine

7,609 posts

235 months

Friday 9th March 2007
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I ripped mine out, at least that way there is no damp/rust/holes/filth.

Minis rust too quickly to have carpets