Carpets/Mats

Kits    'Starter Cover' Mat    Mats    Rear Cockpit    Boot/Hatch

Kits:

Available in different qualities for both roadster and GT, 3 synch and 4-synch. Contents vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, and I have read questions such as "Where on earth does this go?" from time to time. The following are examples:

Moss roadster standard quality: 'Flat' tunnel carpet rather than moulded. '1' and '2' are the toe-board/bulkhead carpets. One of '3' or '4' will be for the passenger footwell tunnel under the heater vent. I don't know what the other one is for as the driver's side only had the rubber piece over the RHD starter bulge/clutch footrest, unless it is a piece for the LHD that side. I have no idea what '5' is for! '6' and '7' at the bottom are for the roadster chassis rails between the battery shelf and wheel-arch carpets (something the MGOC kit didn't have over 30 years ago). Only one image for both roadster and GT but GT is obviously different at the rear, selectable on the order page.

Moss roadster/GT (same image for both) premium quality: As above except with moulded tunnel.

Brown & Gammons Roadster: Not sure what 'Fitting order from the back' means. 3-synch and 4-synch. Item '2 front tunnel carpet' - again two pieces i.e. one for the passenger footwell under the heater vent and the same question-mark on the other piece. No 'zig-zag' piece in this kit. From the illustration the tunnel carpet is flat, there are three moulded types available plus individual pieces to make up your own kit but this doesn't seem to include the toe-board/bulkhead pieces nor the piece under the heater vents. Original rubber sill mats available in black and navy.

As above but showing the different pieces for the rear. '10 Tail light covers' have the narrower end up against the lights and fasten with a bracket on the top light unit fixing stud and a plastic peg. I have these in the roadster with the boot kit, B&G have various GT and roadster boot kits but the floor where these pieces go uses differently shaped parts going forwards at the base of the arches, may or may not go up past the lights as well.

'Starter Cover' Mat:

Or RHD clutch foot-rest cover. In the right-hand footwell, a moulded rubber mat covering the tunnel bulge for the starter motor. AHH6443 for Mk1, AHC98 for Mk2: (Moss Europe)

I'm pretty sure Bee didn't have one when she came to me, so I made one out of an offcut of thin carpet I'd used in a couple of other places (left), which has stood up very well to 32 years of use. Vee had one but quite ratty and hanging loose, I glued it down at one point but it's beyond repair now, so goes on my list of parts for the next order:

At least it was, until I thought "Why not?", pulled the old rubber mat off and used it to create a card template, then trial-fitted that cutting slots and darts as needed, then used that to cut a piece out of the left-overs from Vee's load-space cover and glued it in:

Mats:

Original rear rubber floor mats in Autumn Leaf from Mark Denny. Driver's side has an extra hole near the front inner seat bolt which appears to be original:

Coated felt underneath:

Detail of code numbers:

Rear Cockpit:

Separate chassis rail carpets fabricated and glued in as the arch carpets were not long enough to go over them. They were also flat and the only way I could get them to fit anything like reasonably was to cut a couple of darts in the sides. Note the darts have to be cut out, and not folded over as in thin material.

Darts not ideal:

The V8 arch carpets, which I'm pretty certain are original, are not only moulded but the sides are long enough to go over the chassis rails and under the battery cover carpet. In fact the battery carpet press studs are riveted to the floor through the edge of the arch carpets.

'A' is arch carpet and 'B' is battery cover carpet.

A GT section posted by 'R & M Hare' on the MGOC forum in October 2021, these appear to cover the arch in the cabin and in the load space, the slot being for the bracket that the rear seat back latches go behind. Will they cover the chassis rails as on Vee?

He/She/They was/were asking where the bits upper left went, I wondered if they were for the boot floor extensions as below, and/or for the inside of the upper half of the wing. I suggested fitting it over the arch and bracket, and see where those pieces wanted to lie! No response.

Boot/Hatch:

Bee and Vee have separate sections aft of the arch for the side extensions of the boot/load space floor. Left-hand piece, the larger section lies on the flat floor, the tapered section up past the rear light unit covering the wiring:

Plastic push-in fastener, serrated, not threaded:

Bracket attaches to the top light-unit bolt and the plastic fastener pushes in to it ...

... with dimensions

Bracket attached and ready for carpet and fastener