Replacement 'Door carpet'

[DavidElena]

After 16 years my bits of red carpet stuck to the doors (probably seemed like a good idea in the late 80's) could do with replacement (they're a bugger to err 'hoover' with the Dyson).

I'm not necessarily looking for replacement red carpet (can you even get it?), maybe red leather to match the red stripe in the door pocket and seats (still a bit 80's?).

Any suggestions? Thanks.

[Doug]

well, that's a simple enough area you could:
1. get some carpet, cut it to fit and glue it on yourself
2. get some metal cut/bent/finished/stenciled to your liking and glue it in there instead
3. get an upholstry shop to make you a leather piece to fit

[DavidElena]

Thanks Doug. I've bought some red leather off EBay and will have a go at retrimming. If it looks OK I'll post a photo.

[theelanman]

wot happened to john benks idea of chrome, red paint and walnut veneer???.........
subtle!!!!!....as a kick in the nads

[PaulN]

wot happened to john benks idea of chrome, red paint and walnut veneer???.........
subtle!!!!!....as a kick in the nads

lol

I miss him! Never understand the way he spoke about himself in 3rd person though.

Im sure the MX5 Forums are gaining some really useful info now.

Cheers

PaulN

[GeoffSmith]

wot happened to john benks idea of chrome, red paint and walnut veneer???.........
subtle!!!!!....as a kick in the nads

lol

I miss him! Never understand the way he spoke about himself in 3rd person though.

Im sure the MX5 Forums are gaining some really useful info now.

Cheers

PaulN

I miss him too. And did he have trouble pressing the mouse button once?

Last time I looked in they were discussing when to change gear around town and John was advocating get to 30MPH in second gear and changing to 6th!

[Enright]

Where's the "slaps forehead in exasperation" smiley when you need it?!? It was specially designed for Benkisms wasn't it?

BTW DavidElena, I just got a good tip this evening - possibly slightly after the horse has bolted but you never know:

Lotus are selling off old red carpets at present for a fiver each (see this thread). Therefore a colour match is pretty much guaranteed. If you could get a large enough footwell carpet then you could use your old door trim piece as a template.

And while travelling to Bristol may before Friday may not be totally convenient, I've heard that any bits not sold will go back to Lotus and they can even arrange despatch of parts. You may want to investigate this further and report back your findings...

[DavidElena]

Thanks for the idea, from the latest threads it looks as though all the carpets were bought up, I couldn't get down to Bristol myself as I was in France. Anyway, I've bought the red leather now and it's a pretty good match for the original violent red trim on the seats and doors so I'll fit it and see how it looks.

One of the reasons the door carpet was looking a bit ragged was that the previous owner seems to have had to pull it off to access the scrivets which secure the plastic trim to the main door section. However, the female parts of the scrivets don't appear to be there anymore and I've realised that the inner door section is not secured.

Anybody had to source replacement scrivets whilst doing a door rebuild job? Any idea where I might be able to get them from? Thanks.

[Sy V]

Paul Matty definately do them.