[T3] : Re: 1969 Type 3 Squareback Cargo Mat

[William Jahn]

Mine in my 73 started to get hard and crack and come apart  about 10 years
ago.  It was original yet rubber only lasts so long. I just cut it just
ahead of the fender humps and got some cheap thin carpet in a roll , and
did the best I could to fit it. It was  long enough not wide enough so it's
pieced in three sections. Seems the heat as well as the sun does it in.
Even though the stock insulation is still in decent shape, heat rises.

On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 9:56 AM Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:

> On 9 Dec 2021 at 17:04, bobsnotch at aol.com wrote:
>
> > Gary might be better off looking on E-bay for a black one, and putting a
> > piece of carpeting over it to protect it from UV rays.
>
> Just speculating here, but Gary's old one was covered with several layers
> of
> carpet, and, in spite of not being actively abused, I believe the rubber
> failed
> because the carpet kept the heat in and that is what did the damage.
>
> There's more heat coming up thru that floor than we realize. I once had a
> BUNCH of people in my Square, so many that we put one young woman
> back there. She eventually started to complain about the heat, even though
> we were driving in the dead of a Wisconsin winter. It was well below
> freezing, outside, and yet that mat had become too hot to sit on. Some of
> my
> passengers must have shed coats (The car was young and the heater
> worked VERY well.) and passed them back to her, to sit on.
>
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