XLTmodifire
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- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 99' XLT (B4 Autumn Brown)
After purchasing my X, it took less than an hour to decide that the carpet needed cleaning. I purchased a Bissell Pro Heat vacuum in an attempt to pick up most of the stains, and get rid of the oder. This failed attempt lasted for a whole weekend trying to clean this up. After the clean, here is what it still looked like:
As you can see, this just needed to be replaced. You can almost smell the food, soda, and puke just by looking at the pictures. Not to mention the mold found under the carpet. The cargo area carpet was not too bad. Had oil/grease stains, and some paint stains. I got that cleaned up fairly well, but decided to replace that as well.
During the uninstall, I noticed how the OEM carpet was held on the fold-down panels that lay behind the rear seats. There is plastic sewn onto the edges of the carpet that snap onto the fold-down panels.
After finding this, I got concerned and contacted stockinteriors.com where I had purchased the replacement carpet, and asked if these plastic pieces were sewn into the replacement carpet, or if I would have to hire someone to sew the OEM pieces into the replacement pieces. They said that they were not included in the carpet, so found a company here that would do it for me.
It was pleasant to have received the carpet one day earlier than scheduled, as well as to find that there were plastic pieces sewn into the carpet already. The pieces were clearly not up to par to the OEM plastic pieces, however they did do the job, and I was very happy the company were incorrect with their information.
The install went very well. Was fairly easy. Only thing I did not find pleasing during the installation was the transmission hump pre-mold is a bit wider than the actual hump. Other than that, it went just fine. Took about 3 hours from trimming the excess off the replacement carpet to tightening the last seat bolt.
From this experience, I was also able to clean up all trim and panels, the center console, and all seat posts since they were all covered in (fill in the blank) sticky substance.
I am still waiting on the cleaner seat belts to come in to replace these that are stained, and I am now looking into reconditioning as well as re-staining these leather seats.
I hope my post and experience may help anyone looking into doing this. Here is the truck. The only thing I have changed was moving the exhaust tip up closer to a more stock position rather than looking like a bee stinger, and tying up the tow harness as in the picture, you can see it hanging down.
As you can see, this just needed to be replaced. You can almost smell the food, soda, and puke just by looking at the pictures. Not to mention the mold found under the carpet. The cargo area carpet was not too bad. Had oil/grease stains, and some paint stains. I got that cleaned up fairly well, but decided to replace that as well.
During the uninstall, I noticed how the OEM carpet was held on the fold-down panels that lay behind the rear seats. There is plastic sewn onto the edges of the carpet that snap onto the fold-down panels.
After finding this, I got concerned and contacted stockinteriors.com where I had purchased the replacement carpet, and asked if these plastic pieces were sewn into the replacement carpet, or if I would have to hire someone to sew the OEM pieces into the replacement pieces. They said that they were not included in the carpet, so found a company here that would do it for me.
It was pleasant to have received the carpet one day earlier than scheduled, as well as to find that there were plastic pieces sewn into the carpet already. The pieces were clearly not up to par to the OEM plastic pieces, however they did do the job, and I was very happy the company were incorrect with their information.
The install went very well. Was fairly easy. Only thing I did not find pleasing during the installation was the transmission hump pre-mold is a bit wider than the actual hump. Other than that, it went just fine. Took about 3 hours from trimming the excess off the replacement carpet to tightening the last seat bolt.
From this experience, I was also able to clean up all trim and panels, the center console, and all seat posts since they were all covered in (fill in the blank) sticky substance.
I am still waiting on the cleaner seat belts to come in to replace these that are stained, and I am now looking into reconditioning as well as re-staining these leather seats.
I hope my post and experience may help anyone looking into doing this. Here is the truck. The only thing I have changed was moving the exhaust tip up closer to a more stock position rather than looking like a bee stinger, and tying up the tow harness as in the picture, you can see it hanging down.
