The carpet on the side panels of Elan have some rug binding or upholstery binding sewn onto the carpet along the door edge. The carpet kit I purchased didn’t have the binding. Fortunatly for me, my friend again volunteered to help with the sewing. I took about 2 hours and one bought of cussing to get all the sewing done. I still need to make the new fiberboard panels, glue down the carpet and do some trimming before installing the side panels. Oh, I also will need to cut and trim where the side intrusion bars come through the side panels. This weekend is rather booked with taxes and such so I probably won’t get back to this until next week.
Browsing Posts published in February, 2004
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I’m almost done with the carpet installation. Nothing out of the ordinary, just very time consuming. I took a couple of pictures but the black carpet doesn’t show too well. Since I forgot to mention the car was left hand drive, the foot well carpet is cut for the peddle assembly in the right foot well. I’m still trying to decide how to fix this. I think I will make a cut out in the left foot well carpet and “stick” it into the right foot well. I hope it fits.
The other work going on is for the seats. I took them down to a local auto upholstery shop to find out how much to have the new seat covers installed. They wanted $500! I thought that was a bit steep so am going to do it myself.
I took apart one of the seats and what to my wondering eyes should appear but another PO repair.
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Thanks to the mind reading powers of Tivo we have a new science fiction show to obsess about. Lexx is a Canadian/German series about, umm, well we don’t really know what it’s ABOUT. It’s lost in space with a 6000 year old dead assasisn, a woman who is half love slave/half cluster lizard, a lovesick robot head, and a flunkie who accidentally managed to become the captain of a world-destroying organic spaceship. Simple enough, right? It’s on at 1 in the morning so only through the wonders of Tivo have we found it.We are busy dithering about what type of wine storage to buy, where to stay in London, and what color Elise Jim should get. Life is good.
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