xjmuddigger

well my carpet has gotten alot of abuse over the 20 years its been used(it smells and all stained up),and i noticed alot of people have ripped out there carpet,is this a good idea for a daily driver? or is there something else i should do instead?

The Rooster

yea take out your old carpet and get a new one.... or one that doesnt smell...

Irongrave

if its your daily pull and replace wheeling rig pull and bedline

xjmuddigger

i was thinkin of just puttin a heavy coat of spray on bedliner but i wasnt sure what would be ok

The Rooster

well it will get very noisy if the carpet and sound deading is not there...

xjmuddigger

thats what i was thinkin,but i thought it would be nice to just spray the mud off my bedlined floor when i go muddin annd track mud in and out

Irongrave

it will also get hot as hell with out the insulation

bmrrwolfe

I bought my XJ without carpet, just bedliner. Its not any louder, and as far as I can tell it doesn't seem to get too hot. Although I have yet to drive it in the summer.

xjmuddigger

what kind of bedliner was in it?

-Dom-

i took mine out cuz i sunk it.
its not much louder and it sorrta looks bad if you wanna bring girls in your jeep lol and the floor gets pretty hot

xjmuddigger

cool,well my gf said i should do it so i dont have the nasty carpet anymore lol,so the girl things not an issue lol

jeep93

my 93 still has the carpet fitted, but I bought my 1998xj from a framer and it was pretty nasty inside. The carpet was beyond help. Ripped it out with the intention of replacing it asap, but ive decided to just leave it as is.
I painted the floor with 2 coats of "protecka-coat" bedliner, which is pretty much the same thing as rhino liner.
The floor heats up a little around the transmision, but not so much that its an issue (mabye it would heat more with an auto trans? - ive got a 5 speed manual). The noise is slightly increased, but only to the point where you just turn the stereo up another couple of notches.. it was easy to do.. and my jeep doesnt smell like stale cow crap any more

xjmuddigger

it looks really good jeep93,did you have to remove the center console to do that? or just the seats?

jeep93

seats and the centre consol - unfortunately the carpet ran right up under the consol. The consol comes away really easilly though.. mine was held by a couple of scews inside the little cubby hole armrest, and the front end was more or less just wedged under the dash central facier. I had to drive it the next day (before I painted it), so I just threw in the drivers seat - heres a few pics of the inbetween stage.. sorry a couple are in the dark, and theyre not very structured..just me messing about with a camera.

xjmuddigger

ok cool thanks,so this should be a weekend project....i hope