Interior Carpet

tercel4wdrules · Post by **tercel4wdrules** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 11:37 am

The carpet on my dad's 83 is really bad. I need a new one that is exactly or identical to the original one. Where can I find one?

GTSSportCoupe · Post by **GTSSportCoupe** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 11:40 am

Look for tercels with the same interior colors at your local wrecking yards.

3A-C Power · Post by **3A-C Power** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 12:22 pm

Yeah, the wreckers can surprise you sometimes. If the car was looked after by the owners, the carpet can be really good. Also there are companies that sell moulded carpets for pretty much any car, just search on google or whatever. They are expensive too.

icE · Post by **icE** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 1:29 pm

couldn't you take carpet and put some in the car, draw lines on it, cut it and install it urself? i'd like to replace some of the cloth on the sides and such also. And then eventually take each piece of the interior out, spray paint it with the G2 interior spray paint colors, and then put it back in

icE · Post by **icE** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 1:32 pm

Here's a good site

<a href='http://www.autoupholsterykit.com/' target='_blank'>Auto Upholstery Kit</a>

3A-C Power · Post by **3A-C Power** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 2:29 pm

Man it would be good if they made kits for Toyota seats. I'm reupholstering some Corolla GT-S seats for my Tercel and it takes a long time. Cutting and sewing carpet is done by professionals and it can be good, but it's probably not easy to do a good job.

sacwac · Post by **sacwac** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 9:16 pm

My previous '86 was REALLY bad, I tore it ALL out. I found some of that similar carpet material, the coarse thin stuff on sale at home depot or something.

So, I cut my own carpet using the torn out carpet as a guide. The hardest part was forcing the new flat carpet to match the curved contours of the car with minimal folding. It was a big pita, and I had a couple large folds I couldn't do anything about, but it looked way better than before. I think I used several pieces to cover the car, one for the drivers side, one for passenger side, one for the tranny island, then one for each rear passenger side, etc....

As far as finding the right color, I have no idea.

icE · Post by **icE** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 5:31 am

How do you get the carpet to stay on the car tho? Double sided tape or something?

sacwac · Post by **sacwac** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 9:25 am

I didn't use any adhesive at all.

I removed all the panels where the carpet goes underneath. I used those panels to clamp down on the carpet. The whole job was far from perfect, cause like I said, there would be these folds sticking a little bit up.

It did look MUCH better than it was before, and it was cheap.... I would have liked to do a much better job with some sort of actual kit, or replacement carpets, but that car was just about on it's last leg.

takza · Post by **takza** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 6:32 pm

I've found that you can GLUE boat carpet (thin low pile outdoor carpet) onto vinyl surfaces in a car.

I use clear silicone caulking (original type). Need to clean the vinyl with laquer thinner first.

This thin carpeting can be found in gray and tan colors, etc.

Could glue a cover on a dash...cover a door...or an arm rest, etc.

Could also glue it on the outside of the car, since it is weatherproof....would have a stealth Tercel? :blink:

Thereminator · Post by **Thereminator** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 11:10 pm

Did you say "Shag-Carpet" on the Dash Takza? Now I know you live Waaay-Up in the Mountains! Waaaaaaaaay-Up!!!

takza · Post by **takza** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 5:12 am

Thereminator wrote:Did you say "Shag-Carpet" on the Dash Takza? Now I know you live Waaay-Up in the Mountains! Waaaaaaaaay-Up!!!

Well....I'm a lot classier than that! This carpet has a LOW PILE....real low.

But it is pretty far up...up here in the Himalyas...! :ph34r:

Up...down.......?

tercel4wdrules · Post by **tercel4wdrules** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 8:45 am

Thanks guys for the info. Now how about reupholstering the 83-84 style SR5 seats that match the color and pattern scheme?

icE · Post by **icE** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 5:54 am

not sure about the pattern, but what i'm going to do is use G5 interior spray on everything, the dash, seats, carpet (when i get new one in there), and any part that is visible from the inside of the car. White and black will be my color scheme probably. But if you want an original pattern and such, i'd look for another tercel that has the same kind and take it from that one.

tercel4wdrules · Post by **tercel4wdrules** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 11:19 pm

What does that spray do again? Maybe I'll look for another interior probably. My goal is to leave the car as original as possible but not for a high price of course.