Seat box covering ideas

As a cheapish job that I think will make quite a difference to my 90 I am going to try and recover the seat box and replace the torn textured vinyl stuff.

Has anyone done this with decent results? And if so what did you use?

I'm a bit reluctant to use carpet as I haven't sorted all of the leaks out yet.

Tar

I like your hopefulness towards sorting all the leaks

Grem said:

I like your hopefulness towards sorting all the leaks

Click to expand...

I've done some of them, the big glass thing in the roof makes fixing all of them an imposibility

Just have nothing, strip it all off?

Or cover with rubber mat?

Wright off road? Do 1 piece rubber sound proofing for the seatbox and for the floor available separately.
They don't absorb water but are a bit pricey.

Flossie said:

Wright off road? Do 1 piece rubber sound proofing for the seatbox and for the floor available separately.
They don't absorb water but are a bit pricey.

Click to expand...

How much is pricey? The ones LRI do on ebay do are £100+, hence me thinking I could do something myself. I have lots of angle aluminium from a failed racking project, so I was going to paint it and do the edges nicely with that.

That cheap polypropylene carpet stuff you used to be able to buy is rot proof I think, will look lush with Ali angle.
I've used normal carpet but I rebuilt my tratter proper like and it don't leak inside. Leaks oil though..

Flossie said:

That cheap polypropylene carpet stuff you used to be able to buy is rot proof I think, will look lush with Ali angle.
I've used normal carpet but I rebuilt my tratter proper like and it don't leak inside. Leaks oil though..

Click to expand...

Amazingly mine is leak free from the engine side of things!

I want some kind of textured matting, I just can't find the right thing to search for on ebay. If there is enough left I want to do some floor mats too, as my original ones are looking a bit tired after 135k miles!

I might just bite the bullet and go for this, but it seems so much money for a bit of material

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Land-Rove...965183?hash=item4d4230a1bf:g:wNAAAOSwJqpXoMbN

12mm stable matting, cheap and the textured side will look OK I think. Have a look at this: http://www.rubberco.co.uk/selecteds...=0c8c710a81677bebf107c014d6fb506e&fo_s=gplauk

I was thinking Stable matting as I was reading that, so I'll second that suggestion

I used some stable matting when I made the draw system in the back, so I may well do that our local horse type supplier place has some outside that might do a good job

I've used the heavy stuff to line the back and footwells- it makes a great sound absorber.