I think a new carpet is a massive interior upgrade.
Anyone use either of these sellers?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1997-2002-Je...-/260852714838

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1997-2002-JE...-/390482256821

Is the carpet replacement fairly straightforward remove/replace? One of my seats has a melted bolt that a socket can't get on, but I hope that's the hardest part of this DIY.


https://www.cherokeeforum.com/f2/rip...-carpet-11849/

http://www.automotiveinteriors.com
This the one I just used.
Overall quality was pretty good and they were very easy to deal with.

Doing the carpet isn't all that hard. You will have to take the seats, console out as well as the door sills.
Keep the padding if you can off the passenger side as the replacement won't be as thick. They are good but that side has extreme heat, exhaust and no/little shielding, and adding lots of padding helps with keeping the heat out.
If your seat bolts are rusted to the floor then you may have floor pan repairs required, in any case it is a good time clean up the floor pans and add some rust paint to help protect them.
The actual installation only took a couple of hours with everything out. I spent a lot more time patching my floor and cleaning and sealing and painting and laying cheapie sound proofing than doing the actual carpet.
I used these; http://www.bt-andf.com/ to remove my seat bolts and several days of penetrating oil before I even tried. Also I had the advantage of an impact wrench to encourage them out.
It made a huge difference in the smell, appearance and overall quiet, if a Jeep can ever be quiet.

I used this company's carpet kit, although I ordered it straight through their website. The kit was good, the molding was pretty good. The other poster is right, the padding is not as thick as the factory carpet, so if you can save some do it. You will have to trim, as the kit comes with extra carpet on the edges. Be careful not to trim too much. Make sure to take the time for them to send you color samples. I was in a hurry to order it and picked the color that sounded the closest, and it was lighter than the factory. Still looks good though.

Which link did you order from #1 or #2?

I have a feeling the padding is rotted or funky. I'm going to toss it.

I don't mind cutting the excess carpet. Utility knife makes that simple.

There is a whitish pad under the carpet passenger side that won't be funky, re-use it.
Don't cut the carpet out, you want to re-use it as a pattern. Less cahnce of error.

Also using Febreeze on any of the old stuff works!

If you can find one in a JY, the heavy insulatin option on northern XJ jeeps has a thick rubber pad under the foam insulation. Get that out of one and put your new insulation and carpet over it. It makes a world of difference!

Interesting, I think that my Canadian XJ would qualify as northern but I didn't find a thick rubber pad under my felt insulation.
There was a different pad that was seperate but not rubber, more closer to fibreglas/wool type pad that went under the seat and back floor, cover the cat and muffler areas. I reused that as well as using local roofing covering in 4 (I think) layers t o ensure that the carpet didn't melt.

It is an option, has to be ordered with it, not all will have it.

Wonder if it wasn't an up scale option, mine is only a Sport! being part of a better version/option could make sense.
Finding out the part number for the pad could be great!

This is the melted bolt.
I'm not sure this is ever coming out!
If I can't get a socket onto it, drill it till it falls apart?

When replacing the carpet, how do you remove these clip things in thee back hatch?

I got mine out by drilling out the rivet. If you want to put them back later you can either re-rivet or use a small nut and bolt.

How do you thread that? Do you get someone to crawl under the car where the bolt comes out of the floorpan, and get it to thread the nut? It's just amazing that people here neglect to mention major steps like this when saying a project is so simple (Remove trim. Remove console. Remove carpet. Replace carpet. DONE.) Almost useless guidance.

i think a little common sense goes a long way here

on that seat bolt, you could try cutting in a notch with a dremal so that is like a screw head than use an impact screwdriver to try and get it out (lots of pb blaster for several days before any attempt. or cut the head off and hope that once the seat and carpet are out theres enough left to get a pair of vice grips on to get it out again lots of pb blaster and use only real visegrips not the chinese ones