skint-as-usual
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The issue:
We are away on Saturday for a month in the 90, I am told that the insides are dirty and full of dust and mud, this needs sorting.
Look, she has a cushion for the seat and a mat on the floor, what more does she need
The aim of this exercise:
Is to reduce the amount of dust and mud coming into the seating area from the under seat covers to the battery, the fuel tank and the transmission. All of the seals are stuffed, warped or missing. The covers themselves show some warp, and hence a lot of ****e comes up through all of the gaps.
The underside of the two exposed covers are caked in mud and dust.
To some degree this is to be a stop gap measure as I have a load of ply in the shed and intend to at least, make a cubby box (with cup holders!!).
Ah, I will sort out the loose fuse holders and relays at some stage too (but not now).
The solution:
In the shed I have 2no used karrimats. I certainly do not want to use the orange one though.
So I thought, lets do the seals as as one continuous roll, why not?
So I stripped out and fitted as the photos show this karrimat as a closed cell foam sealant
Now I have almost air tight under seat covers.
For the cost of time and screws, nuts bolts that I had in the shed.
You can get similar foam rolls for £4.00 in Asda I noticed the other week.
I have even put the mats back in too.
Dunno about reduced noise or insulation but hey she cannot have everything.
Picture 1: The karrimat
The karrimat
Picture 2: drivers side stripped out vacuumed and some DS carpet tape down
drivers side stripped out vaccuumed and some DS carpet tape down
Picture 3: Foam starts to go down
Foam starts to go down
Picture 4: make some cut outs
make some cut outs
Picture 5: Drivers seat back in place & trim front edge of foam.
Drivers seat back in place & trim front edge of foam
Picture 6: Existing passenger side luxury (mebee a bit of dust and mud though)
Existing passenger side luxury
Picture 7: Passenger seat and battery out, a bit of vacuuming too
Passenger seat and battery out, a bit of vacuuming too
Picture 8: Passenger seat back
Passenger seat back
Picture 9: All done, look at the seal on the middle cover.
All done, look at the seal on the middle cover
We are away on Saturday for a month in the 90, I am told that the insides are dirty and full of dust and mud, this needs sorting.
Look, she has a cushion for the seat and a mat on the floor, what more does she need
The aim of this exercise:
Is to reduce the amount of dust and mud coming into the seating area from the under seat covers to the battery, the fuel tank and the transmission. All of the seals are stuffed, warped or missing. The covers themselves show some warp, and hence a lot of ****e comes up through all of the gaps.
The underside of the two exposed covers are caked in mud and dust.
To some degree this is to be a stop gap measure as I have a load of ply in the shed and intend to at least, make a cubby box (with cup holders!!).
Ah, I will sort out the loose fuse holders and relays at some stage too (but not now).
The solution:
In the shed I have 2no used karrimats. I certainly do not want to use the orange one though.
So I thought, lets do the seals as as one continuous roll, why not?
So I stripped out and fitted as the photos show this karrimat as a closed cell foam sealant
Now I have almost air tight under seat covers.
For the cost of time and screws, nuts bolts that I had in the shed.
You can get similar foam rolls for £4.00 in Asda I noticed the other week.
I have even put the mats back in too.
Dunno about reduced noise or insulation but hey she cannot have everything.
Picture 1: The karrimat
The karrimat
Picture 2: drivers side stripped out vacuumed and some DS carpet tape down
drivers side stripped out vaccuumed and some DS carpet tape down
Picture 3: Foam starts to go down
Foam starts to go down
Picture 4: make some cut outs
make some cut outs
Picture 5: Drivers seat back in place & trim front edge of foam.
Drivers seat back in place & trim front edge of foam
Picture 6: Existing passenger side luxury (mebee a bit of dust and mud though)
Existing passenger side luxury
Picture 7: Passenger seat and battery out, a bit of vacuuming too
Passenger seat and battery out, a bit of vacuuming too
Picture 8: Passenger seat back
Passenger seat back
Picture 9: All done, look at the seal on the middle cover.
All done, look at the seal on the middle cover