Carpet Restoration

[SkiME]

Years of snow, sand, salt, and water has taken its toll on my carpet. It is at the point where the fabric is hard to the touch. Is there any way to restore the material that anyone knows of?

 

[spaber05]

While my carpet isn't in as bad a shape as yours (by the sound of it), I did rent a Rug Doctor with the hand tool once and it helped quite a bit. Just make sure you factor in drying time because you don't want to end up with mold because you didn't let it air out enough. Depending on where you live, it is usually a task best left for warmer weather.

 

[TheForger]

The thing is if you restore or even replace all of the carpet the problem will still reoccur at some point in the future. If you're not on a tight budget I would suggest being innovative and replacing all of the carpet with an alternative material such as that made by Seadek or similar.

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[SNLC]

Vinyl floor is available out of Australia for the 100-series. Just FYI.

Cheers

 

[divemedic]

Vinyl floor is available out of Australia for the 100-series. Just FYI.

Cheers

Ian, where are you finding the flooring at?

 

[ranma21]

Simple, weathertech liner will take care of it.

 

[mckunz]

To clean, I use a steam cleaner for almost everything nowadays! It will help with your issues paired with a carpet cleaning solution and a scrub brush and towels to soak up the dirty water that will arise. I also can second the rug doctor if you do not want to purchase a steam cleaner, but with a steam cleaner costing around 120$ and the rug doctor rental and concentrate being about 40-50$ I would consider buying a steamer, you can also use it for stains, marks on plastic, deep cleaning your engine bay, or in your house too! I also keep my carpets covered with weather techs all weather floor mats to do quick shake cleans in between adventures

 

[cjmoon]

Remove and power wash. this was just with a garden hose. It was pretty dirty.

 

[divemedic]

I need to get the proper rear carpet but would prefer vinyl for all of it.

 

[oakback]

Remove and power wash. this was just with a garden hose. It was pretty dirty.

This is the best way I've seen. Did this to an old car, it looked almost like new.

Or scrub the hell out of it with soapy water and a stiff brush, and vacuum up the water with a shop vac.