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Old Jun 27, 2010 | 05:04 PM
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I've had the C5 convertible for about 5 days... gotta say I fell in love with it immediately. Now every time I get in it I see how dirty I'm getting the (otherwise perfect) red floor mats. What are you all doing to keep yours clean? Cheap set for regular driving ? ? or ? ? looking for recomendations here... thought about buying another set, but $80+ for spare floor mats
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Old Jun 27, 2010 | 05:06 PM
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Just vac them weekly.
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Old Jun 27, 2010 | 05:06 PM
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Cheap set on top of my lloyd's
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Old Jun 27, 2010 | 05:23 PM
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I have the stock set in for normal use and a set of Lloyd's for specials occations.
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Old Jun 27, 2010 | 05:25 PM
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Yep, I also throw a cheap set over my stock mats for the day-to-day stuff. In fact, this weekend for a couple of shows, I just pulled the cheapos out and didn't even have to vacuum!
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Originally Posted by TR6speed
I have the stock set in for normal use and a set of Lloyd's for specials occations.
Nailed it!
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Old Jun 27, 2010 | 07:03 PM
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I bought some clear ones to go over the top-keeps mine perfect and you can still see them.
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Hi There,
with dougbfresh use the clear ones.
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The guy who I bought my Vette from had installed the Corvette winter rubber mats over the stock carpeted mats. I've put cheap plastic or rubber mats over the factory carpeted mats in all of my cars for years. The day my wife and I were looking at the car and deciding whether or not to buy, when the seller showed us what he had done, my wife elbowed me in the side and said, "I didn't know there were two of you!" I think that for her, that was what made her decide to later tell me, "if you're going to get one of these, get THIS one."
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Originally Posted by Vette7587
I've had the C5 convertible for about 5 days... gotta say I fell in love with it immediately. Now every time I get in it I see how dirty I'm getting the (otherwise perfect) red floor mats. What are you all doing to keep yours clean? Cheap set for regular driving ? ? or ? ? looking for recomendations here... thought about buying another set, but $80+ for spare floor mats
Does your vert have the black exterior? If so, mine is the same; black exterior/torch red interior. What I did was order some black Lloyd mats with the red C5 logo. Kind of breaks up the red interior a little. At times I thought it was too much red, but the black mats tame it down.

Just a thought...........

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