Driver's floor pan rust and carpet dyeing
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2018 9:41 pm
In the process of removing my carpet to clean it and dye it, I found that there is significant rust in the driver's floor pan (not sure that is the right term; its the area underneath the driver's feet. I'm assuming I need to have a body shop cut out the rusted area and weld in some fresh metal, but I'm wondering how others have handled this problem. HELP!!
Back to the carpet - I've got beige carpet, which was very dirty and faded in several spots (e.g top of transmission tunnel), and I pulled it out to clean it and re-dye it in the original color. It cleaned up OK. As I looked into dyeing it, and did a little research; supposedly automotive carpet can be dyed if it is nylon or wool. Thinking the stock E12 carpet was nylon I got excited. But the company I went to order dye from (Americolordyes - which has an automotive line) - said the carpet could not be dyed. Their test was taking a small piece of carpet/carpet fibers and soaking it in bleach; if it turns white it can be dyed, if not it can't. My carpet sample stayed the original color; they said it wouldn't take dye.
Has anyone had any experience in dyeing or otherwise restoring color in E12 carpets?
Alternately, since OEM carpets are basically NLA (other than Farngruen), has anyone used a good source of new aftermarket carpets?
Appreciate your input,
Brian Younger
262-672-0733; brian@youngersolutions.com
Back to the carpet - I've got beige carpet, which was very dirty and faded in several spots (e.g top of transmission tunnel), and I pulled it out to clean it and re-dye it in the original color. It cleaned up OK. As I looked into dyeing it, and did a little research; supposedly automotive carpet can be dyed if it is nylon or wool. Thinking the stock E12 carpet was nylon I got excited. But the company I went to order dye from (Americolordyes - which has an automotive line) - said the carpet could not be dyed. Their test was taking a small piece of carpet/carpet fibers and soaking it in bleach; if it turns white it can be dyed, if not it can't. My carpet sample stayed the original color; they said it wouldn't take dye.
Has anyone had any experience in dyeing or otherwise restoring color in E12 carpets?
Alternately, since OEM carpets are basically NLA (other than Farngruen), has anyone used a good source of new aftermarket carpets?
Appreciate your input,
Brian Younger
262-672-0733; brian@youngersolutions.com