I purchased 2 meters x 1.5 m wide, in black, and began with the two side sections. These have complex bends / folds etc wich make it very difficult and even impossible to copy using flat carpeting. The originals were obviously pressed in a mold to achieve these complex shapes. I overcame this by cutting the OEM carpets into manageable sections - 4 pieces on both left and right side sections, 3 pieces on the boot light section...the floor section is pretty much straight forward and wasn't cut...
I then used contact glue...lots...to coat the surface of the OEM sections and the new carpeting...once bonded, I trimmed the new carpeting to the edge of the cut edges and then using a common, but special carpet joining tape which comes pre-coated with glue and a heat gun, I re-joined all the pieces together to complete each component. The carpet joining tape is used on the back side of the OEM stuff and with the heat gun and the tape placed across the areas to be joined it bonds quickly and dries fixed withing 10 seconds of the heat being removed. I will be collecting some edging (black) to finish trimming the exposed edging on the boot light section at the top where the clips fit, and for the floor section around it's 4 sides. The 3 slots on the right hand side trim still need finishing with an electric soldering iron (hot) which will slightly melt the fibers to cleanly finish the edges. I used the hot soldering iron to punch the holes into the new carpet so the press in plastic clips can pass through...
This shows the depth of the pile - aprox 6mm of fiber and a further 4mm of backing material.
Here you can see the re-fitted side and boot light sections...not great pics, and the carpets still need to be vacuumed and all the bits of loose fiber removed etc...I will post a pic or two later and outside in the daylight so it'll give a clearer view of the final results.
An added bonus - I hope - will be the supression of road noise from the rear wheels, and a subsequent silencing in the cockpit...
