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MG MGF Technical - Second moan today, boot carpet

My boot carpet, above net, has all come loose and away from the rubber seal/body, can't really tell how it's fixed, or how to get it back in properly, just seems to be too short to meet up with the seal now!
Previous owner would have appeared to have tried carpet tape but it's lost its stick now!
Could it have shrunk when wet? (I HAD the boot leaking prob too)
Any suggestions?
I J Hamshaw

Mine has got this pretty bad - i just thought that because of the heat from engine the carpet had warped / moved / shrunk - i have just decided to put up with it.

I keep putting it back and it keeps moving out again. I assume that when it was new it was flush and tucked under the rubber seal...since its been used it has got very hut and moved.

mine is off from one side all the way across to the other.

John

Is this fairly common?

Mine is OK after 8 years now (to the extent that i have just added an extra pair of boot nets >> http://www.forums.mg-rover.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=11692 <<).

Have they changed the design / scrimped on the cut over the years?

SF
Scarlet Fever

Well done Andrew. Excellent idea.

david
david

Great idea,Andy...how did you fix the new nets?
Blue Max

Nets are fitted to a wire rectangle behind the carpet. Basically you make holes in the carpet, poke the net/elastic through the holes and then thread the wire through on the other side.

I used the existing one as a template/guide, marked up the reverse of the carpet with a biro and then made some holes using a swiss army knife.

It's not quite that simple though, the wire rectangle is larger widthways than the net. If you space the nets out to suit the rectangles then you get a 2" gap between the nets and the rectangles foul the wheel arch intrusions and the bonnet pull. I overlapped the rectangles with the existing central one and re-used some of the existing holes to get the nets to sit right next to each other - it's a bit more fiddly to do this way, but it produces a good result and avoids any clashes with the bodywork/bonnet pull.

Another idea i've had in a similar vein is to put a pair of these behind the seats on the carpet below the T-Bar. :-)

Nets came from the MGF Centre and were dirt cheap :-)

Couple more pix...

>> http://forums.mg-rover.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=11693 <<

and

>> http://forums.mg-rover.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=11694 <<

:-)

SF
Scarlet Fever

Ian, try a liberal dose of evostick.
jt
John Thomas

Or self-adhesive velcro strips in case you ever need to remove the boot carpet for anything?
Rob Bell

Velcro, genius!
Didn't think of that, will also remove a lot of the crap in my boot too! Cheers all!
Ian Hamshaw HAM 421E

I had a leaky boot for a while and my carpet seems to have shrunk a tad - creating the same problem.

This has also happened inside the cabin, due to a leaking heater pipe.

I'm going for the sticky backed velcro approach.

I'm also going to fit wee round velcro pads between the two bits of the sun visors to stop them rattling in the wind.

Anybody into bar flying?

Sam
Sam Murray

This thread was discussed between 18/05/2004 and 19/05/2004

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