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Carpet + Brick acid = Oops!
As per title; brick acid has spilled onto the boot carpet. More specifically it’s on the carpet backing of the folded down seats 6&7.
As it was giving off a similar odour to burnt hair I ripped out the covers so it’s now just the bare metal backs of the seats. I’ve tried googling for all sorts of things but can’t find replacements at all. Anyone any ideas?
Pics attached so you can see what I’m talking about (and so you can laugh!).
20th Jan 2019 4:18 pm
LT
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Search for vehicle/car trimmers in your area. I don’t think that will be too costly to have professionally replaced.
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20th Jan 2019 4:37 pm
astonbuilder
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Just search car or camper van carpet on eBay or such like and pick your colour. Tub of evo-stick and you’re sorted
20th Jan 2019 6:06 pm
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I had a diesel spill in the back of the car this weekend! I had a 25 litre drum in the back, for the mini digger, and it fell over on the way to the garage to fill it up. Luckily, not much spilled, and most of it stayed on the rubber mat, but some tracked along the groove and spilled down the back of the 6/7 seats. Richard
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20th Jan 2019 6:23 pm
GLYNNE
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You can buy the carpets for the backs of the seats separately from the dealers. I changed mine years back as the previous owners dog had clawed a hole in two of them.
20th Jan 2019 6:26 pm
astonbuilder
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I managed to clean up a Volvo V70 estate when the then SWMBO put a 5 litre tin of emulsion in boot upside down with a loose lid......
Had to completely strip rear end out and hours and hours of running under a hose eventually cleaned it enough
20th Jan 2019 9:25 pm
Moo D3 Decade
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Re: Carpet + Brick acid = Oops!
simonej wrote:
As per title; brick acid has spilled onto the boot carpet. More specifically it’s on the carpet backing of the folded down seats 6&7.
As it was giving off a similar odour to burnt hair I ripped out the covers so it’s now just the bare metal backs of the seats. I’ve tried googling for all sorts of things but can’t find replacements at all. Anyone any ideas?
Pics attached so you can see what I’m talking about (and so you can laugh!).
I have a set of fabric seats for row 3 i.e. seats 6 and 7 in black. They are in really very good condition. £80.New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!)
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20th Jan 2019 10:05 pm
simonej
Member Since: 24 Aug 2014
Location: Wakefield
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GLYNNE wrote:
You can buy the carpets for the backs of the seats separately from the dealers. I changed mine years back as the previous owners dog had clawed a hole in two of them.
Dare I ask how much?
I thought about the local car trimmer option but it really needs to be an exact match to the rest of the existing carpet. Still, that may be the route I need to go down.
Moo; I need almond, I’m afraid. Shame as I’d have had them off you!
at least it won't smell too badly. I had a mate who decided to transport several litres of milk in a large pan in the passenger footwell … had to do an emergency stop. sold the car after months of rotting cheese smell.
I set off to a picnic that included a huge pump-pot of black coffee amongst things my wife loaded in the boot. First roundabout it keeled over and the glass insides broke. I though I had soaked most of it up until a few years later discovered corrosion on the inside of the rear body. Bye bye classic Range Rover.A vaccine does not stop you catching a virus, or passing it on, or getting ill from it, really ill. It does reduce the likelyhood of you dying when really, really ill. Stay Alive - KEEP AWAY FROM PEOPLE.
21st Jan 2019 12:38 pm
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Drop Dan at Duckworth Parts a PM duckworthparts or call - the carpet backs are available as spare parts from Land Rover.06 D3 SE / 15 LR D90 XS SW / 88 LR 90 Td5 / 68 BMW 2000 ti
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