My front floorboard's carpet area is so bad with salt that you need a driver to break it off the floor. Does any one know how I can try to get this out? Just wondering, If I had to replace carpet I might try to go cut and formed rubber. Just curious.

 

I bet u have rust

 

I bet water would get it out...But yeah the salt is just the start of your problem here. By now you probably have salty carpet on solid rust haha

 

Thats not what I want to hear.....I considered that. Sometimes the floor actually flexes a little bit.....

 

what does it look like from the bottom? and what does it look like under the carpet in question?

 

From the bottom it looks ok, haven't pulled the carpeting yet though...

 

When I got my XJ, All you could see from the bottom was carpet, so you're doing better than I was. lol

But if the floor is soft and has that much salt in there, you will be looking at some metal replacement. I just got my floors done, and no permanent carpet will be going in, just floor mats. I even chopped up the original carpet to make sure I didn't do something dumb, like put it back in.

 

This was my problem:



And my solution:





Yours could be alot worse, ive seen alot worse. Good luck hope this helps

 

I see you found some treasure too...

 

Im going to taking my carpet out tomorrow. Hope mine isn't rusted out too! I think I will be ok though. The underside is in great condition and even has all the factory undercoat on it still! I have to remove it to get to the rear shock bolts that broke so its all going!

 

Hopefully you won't need to do a project like mine needed. facepalm