Carpet installation progress and guidance...

OK, I have the jute installed on the insides of the freshly painted interior panels, it is a little thicker than the stock jute, but seems heavy enough to keep interior noise down a little more.

I bought this bubble-wrap-looking insulation with aluminum foil on each side. It is about as thick as the jute. It seems to me that I should be fine installing the carpet right over this.

Any suggestions otherwise...do I need jute on top of this and under the carpet?

This stuff is 3/16-1/4" thick, and I am afraid if I put jute on top of it, it will triple in thickness and I will have a hard time getting everything to screw back on and the carpet will be too squishy (it is cut pile, and I believe it should be fairly firm when installed).

FYI...the bubble wrap stuff is flexible enough to push into all the holes and fill in the grooves and bumps. You can also twist it and curve it to fit along the other pieces. I am using 3M spray adhesive to put it to the floor.

I have the stuff on the entire floor except a small strip on the pass side. Here is a pic before I got to where I am now...

 

That looks good scoop. I have some of the same stuff to go in mine one of these days. That should be fine to put the carpet directly on top of. The aluminum backing should reall keep the heat down.

 

Well, in that case, I just might have the carpet in today

I only have one more strip of the silver stuff to put down and then ready to heat that carpet up and drop it in.

So, since I bought 6 yards of jute, any suggestions on where else I can put it? I was thinking about behind the wheel wells in the trunk to quiet down the vibrations from the electric fuel pump

 

i took ...3" foam... and cut pieces to put in the quarter/wheelwell openings. i glued the...foil backed bubble wrap... on the inside of my panels. also glued it onto the ...quarter/wheelwells .
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If you've got enough left over, I would put the extra insulation on the back of the rear seat.

 

i also put the 3" foam in the bottom and back of the rear seat...

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Hey Scooper

Where can you buy that aluminun foil insulation? That stuff is lookin' good to me.

 

The insulation came from Home Depot. See the discussion in this thread
http://mmb.maverick.to/showthread.php?t=33607&page=3

 

Oops! Overlooked that thread - thanks.

 

with the headliner out of my car i used a similar product in place of the factory insulation on the roof. applied it silver side up with a jute like material down. really blocks the heat better than factory. then filled alll accessible holes with jute insulation.

 

I like that idea and plan on doing the same thing with the extra I have.

 

Here's a couple of pictures from last weekend.

 

HEY!!! That looks good.

Mine looks just like picture #1 right now. That stuff was pretty easy to work with, wasn't it...

 

It's gonna look really nice once you're done...Time to start taking my carpet out

 

Thanks! Here's another pic of the finished product. After I put it in, I realized how dirty everything else looked.