Install Replacement Automotive Carpet: Part 1

Video Transcript

"Hello, in this segment, we're going to cover installing the carpet.If you remember back to our last segment, we had taken, removed the old carpet, and we found a lot of debris and dirt, where water soaks down through the carpet, and gets trapped there, and we decided we need to get that cleaned out real good, so I took some time, and I got the whole floor plan cleaned out real good, and I left it sit for a day, so it would dry out thoroughly, and I'd have a good surface to work with, so first thing we're going to do, now that we've got everything clean and dry. We're just going to lay our replacement carpet in, the same way we took it out. If you're using a replacement carpet, your new replacement carpet, check it and make sure that it has the release, the holes cut for the seat belts and the bolts for the seats, the things of those natures. If those holes haven't been placed there, the easiest way to do it, is to just lay your new carpet down, and lay the old carpet right over top of it. Mark it with a pen, and then you can come back, and slice through it with a knife. A good tip is, if you're going to put a bolt through that hole and the nylon carpet, when you go through and the bolt twists around, it's going to grab and twist up that carpet.If you take a soldering iron, and heat it up, and just melt around there, you can melt the fibers in the carpet. It makes a nice round circle, and it's all sealed up, and it won't grab on the bolt, when you're installing it. That could be a helpful tip, because it saves you a lot of time and aggravation. It gets wound up real easy, so if you've got your holes all laid out, what we're going to do, is I'm just going to lay the carpet back in, the same way I took it out. I just basically, laid the carpet out in a floor plan. Now, what we want to focus on first, is pushing the carpet all the way forward, and kind of lining up our reference points for our holes, for the various components, like the shifter, and the brake, and the seat brackets, and seat belts, and things of that nature. What we want to start up here in the center, the first obstacle we had was a vent right here, and this is where that tube went in, and it ran the heat down below the passenger driver's seat, and to the rear compartment, and we want to make sure we get that hole, all the way up over that vent, and then push the carpet up in the center, and then, just work it on around, and just keep pushing it in to place. Check all your alignment spots. We've got three spots here for the computer. There will be four bolts that go in to each sheet, a seat belt on each side. We've got this slot here, and we've got all the computer wiring that needs to come out, and we just want to start at the front, and work our way back. Now, we'll switch over to the other side, and get the other location points for your foot rest. You can also check your pivot points, where your plastic snaps when it held it up, and just push it down. In this case, I had stereo and alarm wiring, that needed to be pulled up, next to the vent, so it comes up behind to connect to the stereo, and the alarm system, so watch our next video, and we'll cover, Installing the Carpet, Part II."