the carpeting in my 88 gxl is very low cut up front and on the door panels. every other 7 ive seen has longer carpeting, almost **** like. wtf? where is my carpet from, whats the deal i want to replace it as well as the door panels but i dont want the **** ****, where can i get this? is it only on some models?

 

Sure it is a GXL???

The Base models and Sports got the ultra lightweight carpet which has a very thin pile.

I suppose its possible that your car also got light weight carpet if your car had options to make the car heavy like rear seats or a auto tranny

 

nope gxl, with bins, manual tranny.
door panels ar definatly gxl too. leather mid section with the little cubby hole in the bottom, but low cut pile

 

Hmm, well I have seen one ebay seller selling the light weight carpet (I got a front set for my vert). He normally sells for around $119 or $125 for the front and says it is for a GXL.

But most places didn't know there was a difference.

I am surprised that your GXL has it. I had not heard of any GXL models getting the lightweight carpet.

Do you have the other light weight things??? like the alum spare tire, and the alum hood???

 

no i had the steel tire and steel hood. but the door panels bother me, i can see it getting the carpeting but the door panels have leather on it, its not like they could just stick them on there.
ill get pics soon

 

in my gxl




in my base model 88 though

i know it doesnt look like much of a diff, but the gxl has real nice soft modern looking carpeting. what do you think icemark?

 

i looked at a stock 88 gxl today as well, and it had the ****. ive never seen a 7 with carpet like mine, ever.

 

The bottom one is the normal GXL/Luxury carpet found on the S4 SE/GTU/GXL/turbo/Convertible models.

Its hard to tell in your pictures, but it does look like the top pictures are the lightweight carpet.

 

what was the light weight carpet found in? its so much better, i need to replace the door panels but i want this carpeting for it

 

The 86-87 Sport and Base models were the only ones I have ever seen stock with the light weight carpet.

I'll try and take a picture later of it. So you can see if it looks the same.

Now the S5 carpet also had a short ****, but it was a very heavy carpet with a very dense tuf.

 

Jesus H Christ. You guys have WAY too much time on your hands. My car has carpet in it.

Edit: Woot for you Mark, Congrats on the 19,000 post count.

 

Aluminum five lug spare? I've only seen the aluminum four lug, didn't know there was one for the five lug. What did it look like?

 

like the alum 4 lug, but with 5 lug holes.