There are so many places online to get OEM stuff at a discount I can’t understand why you’d mess with aftermarket mats.

Deeply in awe, your humble admirer forever.

And fist in my forehead: How could I have missed this piece of perfect product prose since friggen February?????

PS: Ex factory price FOB Shanghai for a set of rubber mats around $5. Minimum purchase a full 20 foot container …..

I ordered the FloorLiners and a trunk (cargo) liner for my TL. The Floor Liners fit really well, the trunk liner was crap. I’m not sure what the deal was, but it was too big. It took several phone calls, and a few weeks to get a refund. Before they would process the refund I had to send photos to prove it really didn’t fit. I bought the Acura OEM trunk liner and it fits perfectly.

WeatherTech FloorLiners and Floor Mats are completely different animals, don’t bother with the Floor Mats.

Carefully consider OEM all weather floor mats for your vehicle before buying anything from WeatherTech.

I got my WT for a lot of $, was suitably horrified, called to return, was shocked, took the return haircut. Whew. Never looked back.

I half wonder if their business model is to live on the return discount. Whats the big deal with measuring every car and storing dimension on a hard drive.

With weathertech saying to work with them I have to cut my own mat, I decided to start with better raw material than what weathertech uses. Pickup bed rubber from autozone. Polka dots underneath. I use it polka dots up.

So now I have mats that fit, no dork labels. I let material run up under trim on both sides, back under seat and forward up firewall. Can’t see edges from seat or outside car. Material is way tough, never cut a hole with shoe heel. I like the polka dots too. And if I drive shoeless it feels great underfoot.

It makes great trunk liner as well, things dont slide around.

My new Audi oems are waiting on shelf for when I get rid of car.

You made me laugh. I, too, thought the same thing. Funny he kept his golden retriever in the ads. Collectively, he gave her a serious, nationally broadcast middle finger! I wonder how much of WeatherTech she got. Not a bad looker, either…

If you own a truck and want some serious custom-fit floor mats, a company called Husky makes good ones.

Audi sells mats that fit their vehicles and are buttoned down with the expected German precision.

Check the prices carefully, because Audi offers multiple styles (slim Euro style and also ribbed for your pleasure).

Audi often gives you 4 mats. Weathertech and your local Wally World typically sell them two at a time.

Getting the junky mats at Wlly World means that the stupid things are specifically designed to curl up and entangle the pedals. Getting a good mat from Weathertech frequently means waiting while your special mat migrates through the backorder list. Getting an excellent mat from Audi involves walking into the accessories department and flashing them a credit card.

Yes, Audi mats cost a bit more. If you’re going to drive an uber car, that shouldn’t be a problem.

By the way, you can get rubber floor mats with grooves, similar to the ones reviewed, at Canadian Tire, for about $20. They’re two-layered, the top one comes off so you can dump it of the liquid, and they look like they work a hell of a lot better than the ones reviewed. Mind you, I haven’t bought any, since I have better things to spend $20 on than floor mats… like gas… and beer.

WeatherTech advertises all over the place and they used to use a smiling MILF in heels in most of their ads. She was also in the big double-page ad that showed the owners and staff of WT posed in front of their machinery. I noticed a while back that they were using her less and less in the ads, and now, if you see that group picture, she is no longer in it. And, it looks like the same picture — she apparently was edited out. My guess is that she was the wife, and is now the ex-wife.

Now that I think about it, that smiling MILF in heels was the only reason I ever looked at those ads in the first place.

Not only does it nowhere specifically say that their floor mats are “custom fitted,” in the frequently asked questions on their “contact us” page is one that reads, “My floor mats don’t fit. Why?”

Their answer, in a nutshell, is that the floor mats aren’t fitted, they’re just made in about 80 different sizes that they have correlated to groups of cars, and either they’ll by happenstance fit perfectly (my Audi) or not so perfectly (dancote’s Suzuki).

This isn’t true of their “laser-measured floorliners,” which they offer only for specific vehicles, unlike the 80-sizes-fit-all floor mats.

Bottom line seems to be that Weathertech does everything they can to make you think their floor mats are cut to fit (including calling them “custom,” which on consideration is about as meaningful a word as “nice”), but they aren’t. I just got lucky.

Oh, and dancote further pointed out, in an e-mail to me, that Weathertech uses all sorts of references to CAD and engineering and the latest computerized tooling, in their behind-the-technology section, to make you think they’re doing something different than the old butcher-paper-and-shears technique.

All-Weather Floor Mats
1st Row
2007 Suzuki Grand Vitara

Sure seems like they’re selling me fitted mats. I consider myself to be a pretty savvy consumer and I’ve purchased many items on line. I haven’t been burned like this before.

A baffling review.”

The information I posted was for a set of mats for a 2007 Suzuki Grand Vitara. Just for grins, I shopped for a set of mats for a 2007 Chevy Malibu and got the same information. Caveat Emptor

Shop around!