Put all-weather rubber floormats on top of the carpets?
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Originally Posted by jet190rs' post='197741' date='Nov 13 2005, 09:34 PM
This is probably a dumb question, but what do you guys do?
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I do the same, after all it's easier to clean rubber mats then carpet especially in winter.
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Nope, I pull the carpeted mats and store them for two reasons:
1) The BMW all-weather mats have a different method of anchoring the mats to the floor than the carpeted ones. The carpet mats use a velcro type anchor and the all-weather mats use a hook that comes up through a hole in the mat.
2) On my E39s, I used to use the MacNeil all-weather mats and one year I put them down on top of the carpeted mats. In the spring, when I removed the rubber mats I found that they left marks in the carpeted mats. It took quite some time for the marks to go away (like when you move furniture to a different place in your house and there's dents in the carpets where the furniture used to be...)
1) The BMW all-weather mats have a different method of anchoring the mats to the floor than the carpeted ones. The carpet mats use a velcro type anchor and the all-weather mats use a hook that comes up through a hole in the mat.
2) On my E39s, I used to use the MacNeil all-weather mats and one year I put them down on top of the carpeted mats. In the spring, when I removed the rubber mats I found that they left marks in the carpeted mats. It took quite some time for the marks to go away (like when you move furniture to a different place in your house and there's dents in the carpets where the furniture used to be...)
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Originally Posted by jet190rs' post='197741' date='Nov 13 2005, 03:34 PM
This is probably a dumb question, but what do you guys do?
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Right, the rubber things leave bad marks on the floor-mats.
So I remove them for winter and put them back by changing to summer tires again.
So I remove them for winter and put them back by changing to summer tires again.
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Originally Posted by Harry' post='197974' date='Nov 14 2005, 05:39 AM
Right, the rubber things leave bad marks on the floor-mats.
So I remove them for winter and put them back by changing to summer tires again.
So I remove them for winter and put them back by changing to summer tires again.
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Originally Posted by Rudy' post='197920' date='Nov 14 2005, 06:48 AM
Nope, I pull the carpeted mats and store them for two reasons:
I'm considering ordering a whole set from McNeil - I assume the new 550 takes "E60" mats? I suppose there's no difference to the floor on the different year E60 models? The trunk one-piece tray is great and it appears to fit very well.
Let me know please.
Thanks!