XJ Floor Mats??
 

Just looking for a decent set of black rubber floor mat that fit decently or can be trimmed to fit decently AND don't cost a boatload of money.

If price was not a factor, these Rugged Ridge mats look pretty sweet. However ~$65 for just a front set is steep...

Anyone out there found a bargain on a set of mats that are a good fit for an XJ? For me, I would consider $50 for a front and back seat set to be reasonable.

I was going to say Rugged Ridge (or Quadratec if you prefer, but they're identical rebadges of RR liners) because there's nothing better imo, but then you said they're too expensive for you.

I have the RR/Quadratec liners and feel the price was totally worth it, but...Are Husky liners any cheaper?

Ever since getting my mats and seeing the fit of Husky liners in my bro-in-law's Impala, I can't live without high-lipped, fitted liners anymore. Such things do not exist for my Metro, and the thought of having to settle for cut-to-fit generic mats is really a bummer.

I never would have bought husky liners but they came with my last Cherokee and now I can't live without them.

Maybe you can get in on the free husky liners contest

If the rugged ridge ones are too expensive for you then I have no clue. They are definitely a well worth it purchase, have survived two jeeps and are going strong still.

Thank you guys for your feedback on the Rugged Ridge/Quadratec mats. I am tempted and may end up buying a set, especially considering how yummy the Cherokee's interior looks since I put it all back together...


The Husky liners look nice too but they also look to be even more expensive. Pretty cool that your Cherokee came with them. Mine came with two rubber "welcome mats" in the front...

Shamed...I broke down and got a front set (for now). They are really nice mats.
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For now I left the "welcome mats" in the back. These were the only mats in the car when I bought it...
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Wow that interior is in really, really good shape!

With that color of carpet I would have the very best mats made for an XJ, the whole interior is very nice.

For fathers day my dad bought me Weathertech mats for front, back and cargo area I really like them . They are a little more expensive and had he not gotten them for me I probably wouldn't have paid for them but it very nice. I especially like the rear passenger area mat its all one piece. The Cargo one is nice as well.

I've got the full set and have had em for about a year now, only negative thing is the badges will fall/break off easily. Other than that, love em. Another thing that I thought was strange, when you first get them, they are stiff, kind of a plastic feel to em. But after a few months, they turn into a soft flexible rubber like any other floor Matt. When I take em out now, they flop everywhere instead of keeping their stiff shape like when new.

Mmmm... Full set. Nice.

I bought the car in July from the original owner. She was/is a smoker and the interior stank and was dirty, but it was complete and the seats were not ripped up.

I just cleaned it (and recovered the headliner). Now that the floorboard rust and interior are done I am looking forward to replacing the tired (>307K miles on original engine/trans) drivetrain and doing something with the suspension...

Here are a couple of before pics:
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Check out the smoke halo on the headliner:
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Cherokee parts strewn across the driveway:
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These pics were after the first pass on the front carpet. I usually wouldn't pull the carpet out to clean it, but after pressure washing the undercarriage, the carpet was soaked from the rust holes.
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Rear carpet going back in
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A shot of the re-covered headliner back in the car
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W O W

Nice job cleaning up that interior.

I bought these for 19.99 at Sam's Club. Don't recall a brand, just what they had as "universal" mats. Expected to upgrade later when I bought them, but they fit well and form a nice pan for wet shoes, so I'll just keep them.

They are nice and thick, not difficult to trim to fit, and form a pan more than an inch deep for mud, spills, and splashes.

They came with a rear mat that was mostly useless. I expect to use the rear mat more as a foot mat in front of the tent when camping.

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Passenger side

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Passenger side. The foil sticking out under the top left corner is foil/bubble/foil insulation. Eventually it will go under the carpet if I find a reason to pull it up again after tracking down the leaks.<br/>

Thanks for sharing. Do you have a shot of the driver side? Now that I bought the front RR mats, I think I'll be compelled to buy the rest of the set... I am new to XJ's but it seems like finding one in some areas without leaky/rusty floorboards is a rare find. The POR-15 kit I used worked well for me, but sealing up those floorboards was definitely a labor of love...

Yup. POR 15 is good stuff. I like to use Ospho to phosphate the rust before priming and painting, that has worked well. My 99 has very little rust on the unibody or floor pans. It came with an engine that was sick.

The bit of gorilla tape on the left(pics below) is in there for de-bugging a drivers side leak. Rain water was running down inside the front driver side doorframe into the carpet. I put the tape in to channel rainwater into the floor mat instead of the carpet. That last leak turned out to be from the too-loose rubber windshield gasket rather than gaps in the urethane bead holding the glass.

It 'twere a booger to figure out, but I think its all sealed up now. [Soon as I remove the tape it will leak again.]

Needs a vacuum....

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Drivers side.

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I think I will buy the Quadratec mats.

Just my .02

My friend has the Rugged Ridge mats and they look GREAT. I have a set of Husky Liner mats for my front and some cheap generic ones for the rear.

The Husky Liner front mats hold like 2 gallons of water - they work fantastically when we go snow wheeling and my friends refuse to do the wizard of Oz "heel click" to knock the loose snow off their boots :D
I think I paid about $80 for the front two on Ebay which was worth it to me (expensive for floor matts but also really well built).

You can see how deep they are;

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I ripped out all my carpet and just bed lined the whole floor pan, way easier

Removing your interior, painting your floor, then putting the interior (sans carpet) back in is easier than plunking some mats in? Cleaning your floors must require more effort than lifting a mat out and shaking debris out of it, too.

I'm not dissing your choices. I'm just not seeing how your was is "way easier."

I have Rugged Ridge liners. I don't know much about Husky liners but I don't like Weathertech because they seem to slide around on the carpet because they have smooth bottoms. Rugged Ridge has little spikes on the bottom so no sliding around!

Agreed. Unless you just don't give a crap and your bedlined interior is a mess. If I had the choice on dropping coin on nice floor mats or bedlining my floor and leaving it without carpet I would go with floor mats

I can see that.

I can also see where getting rid of 20 year old moldy carpet might be worthwhile. Auto carpet has its place. But moldy carpet sucks. Sandy carpet sucks. Depends on how the vehicle is used and how much you like scrubbing/vacuuming carpet. With my rain leaks, I wound up cutting the front floor pan insulation out just to get rid of the mold and mildew.

I would rather have a vinyl floor liner, but such unicorns seem to be rare for any vehicle post 1980. So the bed lining option has some appeal. I would just put mats on top of the bedliner. The lack of thermal and sound deadening insulation is the drawback that I have with a bedliner solution.

Great thing about an XJ project. Pretty easy to customize. But I want a new drivers seat with better lumbar support before I will mess with the carpet.

zj power seats while lumbar support you say? . . .

I had Nifty (yes, that's the brand name) floor mats in my XJ some years ago. They act just like the Husky & Weathertech mats in that they hold lots of water and you just rinse them off. The real difference was that they were first class mats: had carpet on top, waterproof rubber on bottom. Cost about $135 or so for front/rear set. They were awesome, matched my tan interior, looked like stock ... and then someone dear to me decided to get me Weathertech or Husky liners. Of course I had to use the new mats ... but I still have my tan Nifty Catch-All mats in a box. Can't simply throw them away

Yeah, thats the best idea I have seen for a seat. I'd rather have manual adjust. I need to hit a few pic-a-part places for the seats and a rim for a full size spare. Still smarting from the $hock of buying a remanufactured engine.....

What years on the ZJ seats are drop in for a 99 XJ? [Off to google I go.]

All. Plus the WJ. So 93-04 grand cherokee seats will work.

I literally did the swap on Friday. Pull both front seats from an 04. At the time I noticed that the driver seat was possibly not original, but didn't notice until Sunday that it was actually a ZJ driver seat.

Thanks. The parts picking places closest seem to have a good supply of ZJ's. Maybe I'll get lucky and find some that can clean up better than my OE seats.

Not many xj's and zero wranglers listed in the local junkyards. Interesting.