Carpet and water?

[Zorro]

Ok ... let's be clear from the start, yes I wanna have my cake and eat it too.

I want the comfort and sound-deadening of a carpet, but I don't want the soaking of carpet.

We have a lot of water out in the trails around here ... and unevitably, my carpet soaks up the water (even worse when I get stuck in too deep a hole), keeps it until it smells and rots (gross).

Who here has a solution other than :

a) keep carpet, soundproofing and decent finish ... but take it out and clean it every other week because it's crappy and soaked with muddy water.

b) remove carpet alltogether, and live with driving what has instantly become a POS farm truck (no offense to farm trucks meant)



I was thinking of cleverly cutting the carpet so that it could be removed in 3 parts (Front driver, front passenger and rear) without removing the seats ...

Or just putting some roll-on bedliner thing? Will it be as good as carpet for sound-deadening? Kinda scares me, though ... putting on a solid coat of paint over some slightly rusty metal ... uh-oh.

 

[hihoslvr]

well, hopefully you'll get some other replies, but I suggest that if you take out the carpet you might want to take the seats out when you do. Otherwise I bet you'll end up with rusted out bolt holes there. This would be a good time to repair some of that rust, coat the interior with some bedliner stuff, and get some floor mats, to help with insulation and dirt removal.

 

[Zorro]

It's only surface rust. There's no way around it. In Canada, vehicles rust, no matter what you do.

Good point about the seat bolts seizing in place. Mmmh.

Already have floor mats too ...

 

[KELLY88]

Why not just cover it with a rubber floor lining? Easy to clean out and you still get sound deadening in the cab. Not as much as carpet but it's kind of a happy medium between comfort and ease of cleanliness.

 

[Zorro]

All the floor linings I've seen (carpet or vynil) are a one piece (which means I'd have to take the seats off to remove it and check for trapped moisture) ... unless I go the individual floor mat route.

Perhaps I could take a chance with rust, acid clean and Line-X the interior, then floor mats on top of that.

Carpeted individual floormats over Line-X? Easy to take out or clean, yet clean looking and decent sound deadening. Mmmmmh, sounds like a good option ...

 

[mhughes165]

linex the interior, then also get the underside of the truck in the passenger compartment sprayed, also, u can have them remove the bed and spray the backside of the cab, that will help with sound alot aswell

 

[kaskirov]

have you seen those carpeted bed liners? i asked my ford dealer about them (cause they had them) when i was looking for bedliners, and he said they were made from some marine grade carpet that would never smell, rot, etc and it dries fast. maybe you could cut one up and make a new floor?

a quick search found:
http://www.bedrug.com/

taken from the FAQ:
11. Won't the BedRug suck up water and cause my truck bed to rust?
Actually, BedRug's closed-cell polymer construction can't hold water - it runs right off. This is not true of hard liners; water gets trapped between the liner and the bed, often causing rust.