OEM Sill Mat Installed

[55 Fargo]

Hi all, decided to re-install the OEM sill mat for the passenger side.

It is old, rough, and not that great, but it is Mopar.

The driver side is in worst shape, I am hoping to score a used set from someone I know, when they make up there mind if they want to sell them or not.

I need new rubber grommets for them too, get them from Roberts or Burnbombs.

Here is a pic, part of it is still wet from being washed..........

Edited October 1, 2010 by Rockwood

[Reg Evans]

It looks good in the photo !

[53_Suburban]

Looking good. I'm in the process of getting a used one for my '53. Turner Wreckers sent me one from a '52 by mistake. My car was in the shop so long it was over 90 days before I tried installing it and found it was wrong. I finally got around to calling them today and they're shipping me one from a '54 with no questions asked, an apology and a return slip to send back the wrong one. Hope the one from the '54 is as nice as the one from the '52 they sent. I didn't really want to spend $374.00 for a pair of new repros from Steele Rubber.

Edited October 2, 2010 by 53_Suburban

[daddyo23]

Looks like it's in better shape than what I have.

[55 Fargo]

I guess it doesn't look too bad, the other side mat is rougher, and will maybe wait for a better specimen. I guess I am a bit fussy, have Dom Perignon taste, and grocery store Shlitz budget...........Fred

[BobT-47P15]

Fred, I wonder how it would work to try and coat one of these sill

pieces with that stuff you can buy at the hardware, into which you

can dip the handles of your pliers.......it gives them a rubberized

coating. If a person painted some of that on with a brush and perhaps

did it several times to build it up for a chip or missing chunk...........hmmm

[55 Fargo]

Fred, I wonder how it would work to try and coat one of these sill

pieces with that stuff you can buy at the hardware, into which you

can dip the handles of your pliers.......it gives them a rubberized

coating. If a person painted some of that on with a brush and perhaps

did it several times to build it up for a chip or missing chunk...........hmmm

Hi Bob, I have thought of this too, kinda of a home revulcanizing, any suggestion, on what to buy.....Fred

[BobT-47P15]

Only thing I know about is that stuff I mentioned.

I guess it's sold at hardware stores, maybe farm supplies, or

even perhaps home despot. Have never used it, but recalled

it's mention on previous posts.

There are roof coatings of various types, but I'm not familiar

with them.

You wouldn't want it too thick or it would fill up the grooves.

I think I may have a couple old mats around to experiment on,

but they may have

too much rubber gone to be of any real value.

[48P15Annie]

Looks good!

[53_Suburban]

Here's the sill mat I got from Turners. It looked pretty nasty when I first unwrapped it, but it cleaned up really nicely with soap & water. After it dried, gave it a couple applications of Pledge furniture wax and here's how it looks.

It's a bit "petrified" but totally useable and only has a couple light spots.

Not perfect, but 100 times better than the "nothing" which it has had for years.

[p15-1948]

Don't know how it would work in this application, but Mother's Back to Black is a pretty good product.

[busycoupe]

The sill mats in my coupe are in bad shape, petrified, cracked and discolored. I did not want to pay nearly $500 for new ones, so I spray painted the old ones with flat black paint. They actually look OK. If you look closely you can see cracks and missing chunks, but for a casual glance while getting in or out of the car I think that they look fine.

Dave

[55 Fargo]

The sill mats in my coupe are in bad shape, petrified, cracked and discolored. I did not want to pay nearly $500 for new ones, so I spray painted the old ones with flat black paint. They actually look OK. If you look closely you can see cracks and missing chunks, but for a casual glance while getting in or out of the car I think that they look fine.

Dave

Please post a pic, if you can.......Fred

[suntennis]

After cleaning years of use from my sill rubber, I painted them with a spray can of Dupli-Color Vinyl & Fabric paint. The cap on the can looks like flat black, but the finish comes out with a slight gloss that makes it look new.

[BobT-47P15]

I found an old sill mat in the trunk of my 79 Toyota a few days ago,

where I stased it several years ago, for lack of a better place to

keep it.

The rubber is pretty well brittle and chunked off, but the metal under

it is still all in one piece, although rusty. Thinking about tracing the

outline off onto another piece of metal to produce a new base.

A person could even attach some studs in the correct places.

The main problem is finding the rubber portion with the original type

ridges and grooves. Some sort of rubber matting with fairly fine

ridges can probably be found, but nothing that would be exact.

So, it's possible to make a new mat, but it won't look original.

Would a thing like that be preferable to nothing at all??

[busycoupe]

Here are a couple of pics of my painted sill mats. They really aren't very good, but the paint makes them usable (in my opinion) until I can find better ones.

Dave

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[BobT-47P15]

Hey, they don't look all so bad. Definitely better than nothing.

I think the new reproduction ones have to be glued down and don't

have the studs on the bottom. One or two people have made

metal pieces to replace them....with some type of custom design

on them.