Removing disco carpets? Anyone left them out?

[spy]

Seen as I dont seem to be having much luck with my dirty old disco on ebay I have decided its time to get on with sorting it out.  

How difficult is it to remove the carpets?  I know there are two plastic strips sort of above each sill thet need to come up but what else?  

Has anyone taken them out cleaned them and refitted without too much grief?  

Thanks,

Mike

PS. Yes they are too bad to clean in situe, think I really need to jetwash the mud off!

[dazzawhipple]

Just replaced my interior inculding carpet, you will have to remove centre consul, both front seats, rear seats and all the door edges.
 it will then lift out in 2 bits but you may have to cut the carpet onto of the tunnel at heater matrix end

Expect the soundproofing to be sodden

Darren

[spy]

Sod that then!  Sounds like a nitemare :(

[dazzawhipple]

it is

[spy]

Well, it would be much easier with a stanley knife!  

Anyone not got carpet at all in their disco?  Thinking of cutting it out and binning it.  Had series landies without carpet, much easier to clean out.  Surely it cant be noiser or colded than a series 3?

At least I get a good look at the state of the floor.  Anyone suggest a good heavy paint to coat it in? almost bitchumen (thats not spelt right is it) based?  

If anyone has no carpet and could take a few pics it would be much appreciated!

[dazzawhipple]

Go easy with the stanley knife there are looms that run on the passenger side of the transmission tunnel and looms that run from the back of the transmission tunnel to both 'B' posts!!!!!

Darren

[Disco Inferno]

i didn't have any carpets in my disco,
it was generally in free flodo on events so they were forever ringing wet

to behonest, i didn't really notice a great dal of difference in noise, the exhasut had no silencers at all, so that covered up most noises

i guess it would be noisier in a more std car

[redhand]

Seen as I dont seem to be having much luck with my dirty old disco on ebay I have decided its time to get on with sorting it out.  

How difficult is it to remove the carpets?  I know there are two plastic strips sort of above each sill thet need to come up but what else?  

Has anyone taken them out cleaned them and refitted without too much grief?  

Thanks,

Mike

PS. Yes they are too bad to clean in situe, think I really need to jetwash the mud off!

Have you thought of putting Rubber mattng in it instead of carpet. you could clean the floor and paint it with car underseal. them using a good contact adesive glue a 1/2"-3/4" foam rubber mat (not sponge based foam) to the floor. Then lay a thin rubber mat over the top (use old carpet for template) Water ingress would no longer be a problem. Obviously you need to seal all the edges & joints completly and seal foam to floor with 100% glue coverage. If you just stick the edges, water will be trapped
under it and rot the floor.

Machine Mart do various styles of rubber matting.

[defuzz]

i wonder if theres a rubberised paint we could use instead?

I know Plasti-cote does something like this, would it work on a large scale and reisit the wear and tear?

[hobbit]

industrial floor paint, you can get it with anti-slip properties too

[spy]

The problem is industrials floors dont flex as much as the disco floor will.  I was thinking I might just hammerite it and put some rubber mats down to protect the hammerite.  I think the carpets are coming out though, its never going to dry otherwise.

Problem is, will I just discover more holes I didnt want to know about.  :D

[pegleg66]

:D

had no carpet in the disco, cut it all out, no extra noise really, painted with plasticote in red, has small rubber granules in, quite expensive though, brilliant when going through deep fords, open the doors and out comes the water, and leaves a clean floor, also able to jetwash, with the car sideways on an incline, all the mess pours out, got another disco now, about to do the same with that. easier to keep clean, and carpet dosen't stink after time with geting wet...... :D

[way2deep]

took mine out ,cos fed up with them getting soaked and by the time they started drying out they would get soaked again...life's sooo much better now ,when i get back from playing i just hose the floor down and it's job done ..best modification i ever made :D

[dave_2A_2.25Turbo]

Speedliner the lot!