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

[Dave Hall]

I've not found the load surface gets too hot in our cooler UK climate, but
it certainly makes the sleeping bag nice and warm if you're camping at the
end of a journey.
When I had the 1964 Variant, it didn't have the thermostats that later cars
got, and when returning from the London boat show with a group of school
kids, one of them put the rubber mat over the outlet rather than ask 'sir'
to turn down the heater.  It smelt pretty awful until I turned down the rear
heat!

Dave
UK VW Type 3 & 4 Club.

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From: type3-vwtype3.org <type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org> On
Behalf Of Jim Adney
Sent: 09 December 2021 17:56
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] : Re: 1969 Type 3 Squareback Cargo Mat

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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Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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