Hey guys, finally getting around to painting the floor in the XJ after dealing with replacing a floor panel. My question is should I remove those silver thermal mats before painting?

I'm just going to Rustoleum Spray Prime/Paint the floors. I know the XJ has a few of those silver thermal barriers around the floor and the big one in the trunk area.

Should I leave them? Or take them out? Or paint the floor and put some new thermal mat things over the same spots. My biggest concern of course is rust prevention but at the same time don't want the XJ to become more of an oven haha.

Don't wanna mess this job up Thanks!

I would remove them paint it and put new ones down.

Thanks, I know alot of people have painted their floor boards and wanted to know what they have done.

Time for heat gun and alot of scraping