Seat box covering ideas

james6546 · Aug 31, 2016

As a cheapish job that I think will make quite a difference to my 90 I am going to try and recover the seat box and replace the torn textured vinyl stuff.

Has anyone done this with decent results? And if so what did you use?

I'm a bit reluctant to use carpet as I haven't sorted all of the leaks out yet.

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Grem · Sep 1, 2016

I like your hopefulness towards sorting all the leaks

james6546 · Sep 1, 2016

Grem said:
I like your hopefulness towards sorting all the leaks

I've done some of them, the big glass thing in the roof makes fixing all of them an imposibility

flat · Sep 1, 2016

Just have nothing, strip it all off?

Or cover with rubber mat?

Flossie · Sep 1, 2016

Wright off road? Do 1 piece rubber sound proofing for the seatbox and for the floor available separately.
They don't absorb water but are a bit pricey.

james6546 · Sep 1, 2016

Flossie said:
Wright off road? Do 1 piece rubber sound proofing for the seatbox and for the floor available separately.
They don't absorb water but are a bit pricey.

How much is pricey? The ones LRI do on ebay do are £100+, hence me thinking I could do something myself. I have lots of angle aluminium from a failed racking project, so I was going to paint it and do the edges nicely with that.

Flossie · Sep 1, 2016

That cheap polypropylene carpet stuff you used to be able to buy is rot proof I think, will look lush with Ali angle.
I've used normal carpet but I rebuilt my tratter proper like and it don't leak inside. Leaks oil though..

james6546 · Sep 1, 2016

Flossie said:
That cheap polypropylene carpet stuff you used to be able to buy is rot proof I think, will look lush with Ali angle.
I've used normal carpet but I rebuilt my tratter proper like and it don't leak inside. Leaks oil though..

Amazingly mine is leak free from the engine side of things!

I want some kind of textured matting, I just can't find the right thing to search for on ebay. If there is enough left I want to do some floor mats too, as my original ones are looking a bit tired after 135k miles!

james6546 · Sep 1, 2016

I might just bite the bullet and go for this, but it seems so much money for a bit of material

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Land-Rove...965183?hash=item4d4230a1bf:g:wNAAAOSwJqpXoMbN

zeaphod · Sep 1, 2016

12mm stable matting, cheap and the textured side will look OK I think. Have a look at this: http://www.rubberco.co.uk/selecteds...=0c8c710a81677bebf107c014d6fb506e&fo_s=gplauk

Grimmer · Sep 1, 2016

I was thinking Stable matting as I was reading that, so I'll second that suggestion

james6546 · Sep 1, 2016

I used some stable matting when I made the draw system in the back, so I may well do that our local horse type supplier place has some outside that might do a good job

zeaphod · Sep 1, 2016

I've used the heavy stuff to line the back and footwells- it makes a great sound absorber.

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