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Molded Carpet or Not?
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RobertsMGB Gold Member Bob RobertsMGB
Berne, NY, USA   USA
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1970 MG MGB
When I did the interior of my '63 B I made the mistake of installing the cheaper carpet set that wasn't molded. If you look at the first pic you can see why that was a bad decision. The raised panel on the tunnel made it very difficult to get a good fit and I've never been happy with it.

Now my question - I'm doing the interior of a '69 GT with my son and we're looking to get the molded carpet... but, in the second pic you can see that the '69 doesn't have that same raised panel so the carpet would lay much flatter. Is it worth still going with the molded set for the later car?


Bob Scardamalia
Albany, NY
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'69 MGB-GT #180279
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Re: Molded Carpet or Not?
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mowog1 Gold Member Rick Ingram
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Learn from one's previous experiences.

Molded is the way to go.


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Re: Molded Carpet or Not?
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I've done both and moulded is nice but I recently had a flat set put in one of the MGAs and I had it professionally installed. Before even looking inside the cockpit, the guy picked up pieces and started cutting. It came out perfect. There's no way you could re-cut the molded areas. My advice based on that one datqa point is to buy the flat set and use the extra for professional installation. If you're going to do it yourself, moulded is the low-risk alternative. Basil 707.762.0974 basiladams@yahoo.com.


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blue64 Paul Hanley
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molded for sure

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Re: Molded Carpet or Not?
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chris Chris Roop (RIP)
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You can futz the tunnel with late cars that have the console to cover the center pretty effectively. You can pull down the carpet on a 68 tunnel pretty easily. However, that still leaves you with the rear wheel arches. Pros can do a great job of covering them with flat carpet using steam, but I for one am not a pro at carpeting. Go with the molded.

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stuntflyr Chris McMillin
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A pro did my molded carpet on the interior installation on the '65 and it came out very nicely. I'd have to go molded AND pro install. If even just for the tunnel and wheel arches. Then you'd have the best fit in the carpet and save the dough on the easy stuff.
Chris...

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