The great mat conspiracy

listermint

There are fewer prickier ways for Manufacturers to make money

(well being deliberately obtuse there)

but come on, why do you have to literally throw out all 3 good mats in your car to replace them with new ones. No one sells just drivers mats. They make you pay more , a premium just to get a new drivers mat because you have to buy a set of 4.

Its just wasteful. Its just terrible for the customer .

Let me replace my drivers mat on its own, up the price a bit but allow it to be replaced on its own and save the landlfills of the world







#rant

Gravelly

Or you could go to a scrappy and get a near brand-new, OEM drivers mat out of the same model for a few yoyos.

listermint

Gravelly wrote: »

Or you could go to a scrappy and get a near brand-new, OEM drivers mat out of the same model for a few yoyos.

tbf ive yet to see a clean drivers may in a scrappy they are in bits. nor would the scrappy sell them individually.

mats get worn after a few months youd be hard pressed to get a good mat in a yard.

Harry Palmr

It's like fruit, now you have to buy half a dozen apples in plastic wrap! A wasteful world.

(grumble grumble grumble)

Gravelly

listermint wrote: »

tbf ive yet to see a clean drivers may in a scrappy they are in bits. nor would the scrappy sell them individually.

mats get worn after a few months youd be hard pressed to get a good mat in a yard.

Any scrappy that does a lot of insurance work (and all the big ones do) will have lots of nearly new cars coming in - unless the owner is a doing a Michael Flatley while driving, I've never seen a drivers mat that's worn after a few months. I know a lad that sells cars off a forecourt near me and he replaces mats from ones in a scrappy all the time - most look like new after a vacuum.

MetzgerMeister

listermint wrote: »

There are fewer prickier ways for Manufacturers to make money

(well being deliberately obtuse there)

but come on, why do you have to literally throw out all 3 good mats in your car to replace them with new ones. No one sells just drivers mats. They make you pay more , a premium just to get a new drivers mat because you have to buy a set of 4.

Its just wasteful. Its just terrible for the customer .

Let me replace my drivers mat on its own, up the price a bit but allow it to be replaced on its own and save the landlfills of the world







#rant

I fully agree with you. At least BMW are selling mats in pairs - front and rear so to replace the driver's one you have to buy the passenger one also.

It makes no sense from a customer point of view as the front passenger one in my car is perfect and I don't need another one but from a manufacturer's point of view, it's an economies of scale idea.

The proper OEM mats (at least in my case) can be bought individually on Ebay and if not individually, the sets come up for less than dealer prices.

Cee-Jay-Cee

I have rubber mats over the top of the mats in my car. The rubber mats are easily cleaned and harder wearing. If the next owner wants he can throw them out and have nice clean perfect OE mats.

ION08

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

I have rubber mats over the top of the mats in my car. The rubber mats are easily cleaned and harder wearing. If the next owner wants he can throw them out and have nice clean perfect OE mats.

That's very nice of you to be so considerate of the next owner.

Maybe you should put some mats over the rubber mats which are there to protect the OEM mats which are there to protect the carpet :P .... just in case.


@OP Fully agree with your point. Ebay is usually quite good for picking up used mats that are in good nick.

rex-x

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

I have rubber mats over the top of the mats in my car. The rubber mats are easily cleaned and harder wearing. If the next owner wants he can throw them out and have nice clean perfect OE mats.

But rubber mats are so fugly looking, why not put plastic on the seats too? If its my car i'm getting fully use of all the bits! I bought it for me not the next guy :pac:

robtri

ION08 wrote: »

That's very nice of you to be so considerate of the next owner.

Maybe you should put some mats over the rubber mats which are there to protect the OEM mats which are there to protect the carpet :P .... just in case.


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its like the old saying... I am not having sex with my girlfriend so she is tight for her next boyfriend...

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