Experience with Ozite??
Experience with Ozite?? Hey guys, I recently got rid of the carpet out of my car... it was in pretty bad shape and ordered two sets now of the "Pre-molded" stuff from various vendors. My opinion is that it sucks. It just does not fit like the stock piece did, which I should have expected. I was just going to go to the dealership and get a factory replacement piece that I didn't have to mess with at all but found out that they discontinued it back in 06'. I recently found a few threads dealing with this stuff called Ozite. From my understanding it is a very pliable carpet that does not have the stiff rigid backing that all of the molded carpets have. In theory this should form fit great to the floorpan, which is what I'm looking for. Two questions though....
1. How does it look?
2. How easy is it to install?
1. How does it look?
2. How easy is it to install?
From my understanding, ozite is more of a mat than actual carpet. There is no "backing" so you can stretch the ozite apart. I believe you have to glue it down as well. I've heard that it wears very quickly as well.
So I wonder if I would be better with another molded deal? The fitment of the molded stuff just sucks and looks terrible in the back when you remove the rear seats, which I did. Every one I've seen was all wrinkled and looked terrible.
fitment from the front seats forward was very good. there is way too much room around the trans tunnel causing a lot of wrinkles and such. i think I will try to shove some extra insulation under the tunnel area to even it out. i like things to look as perfect as possible and the wrinkles really p*ss me off.
If the wrinkles bother you then ozite may not be for you. I took a long time doing mine, and I have doen it twice (had to rip it up when the cage got finished, and I redid it)
I can tell you, with time, and good spray adhesive it can look pretty good. It will wear quickly, so you will need to leave yoru floormats in for sure, but other then that it's not that bad. For the cost and the weight savings, and that I can do the carpet for 80 bucks it's not that bad.
I can tell you, with time, and good spray adhesive it can look pretty good. It will wear quickly, so you will need to leave yoru floormats in for sure, but other then that it's not that bad. For the cost and the weight savings, and that I can do the carpet for 80 bucks it's not that bad.
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Ozite carpet with DAP Contact Cement...you can't go wrong. Just take your time, and have items to weigh down the carpet as you glue it down...especially on the passenger-side floor area. I used magazines (since they conform a little), and full bottles of stuff for the tight curved spots.
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