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<blockquote data-quote="greynolds" data-source="post: 6142236" data-attributes="member: 593834"><p>I finally got around to fixing the rear floor mess myself.</p><p></p><p>Ken448 had mentioned the bad color match on the carpet which I initially thought wasn't a big deal, but I later noticed that they had put the mismatched carpet OVER the original carpet on all of the rear floor panels. I wasn't at all happy about that because it would have meant a lot of work to remove it at some later date to sell the vehicle without the audio system or if I wanted to change things, etc. The carpet also didn't adhere well on top of the original carpet, so some of it started coming off before too long. I made them remove the extra layer of carpet and clean up the glue that was left behind - this took them a few days.</p><p></p><p>I gave up on them fixing the support for the rear floor properly as they just weren't getting it. Work kept me busy for a while, but I finally got time to fix this myself over the last few days (I'm in stay home vacation mode for 2 weeks - I hope to knock a bunch of things off of my to-do list). I removed what they used for the rear floor panel and replaced it with a sheet of 1/4" plywood and added LOTS of support underneath so I can now carry a non-trivial amount of weight in there without too much worry of damaging anything. I cut a pair of 8 inch holes in the plywood using a Rotozip circle cutter attachment and put steel grills over the holes so the sound from the subwoofers can get out. It really wasn't that difficult for me to do this myself and this isn't something I do on a regular basis. The shop that did the install shouldn't have had any trouble coming up with something similar. Rather than trying to find a really close match for the carpet, I decided to go with something that I felt contrasted well with the factory carpet.</p><p></p><p>For the trim panel they had left loose in the front, I built a replacement box and put the same carpet on it, then screwed it in place so it won't move around.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.geoff-reynolds.net/lexustoyota/highlanderradio/RearReinforcedForFloor.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.geoff-reynolds.net/lexustoyota/highlanderradio/RearNewFloor.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.geoff-reynolds.net/lexustoyota/highlanderradio/RearNewFloorFront.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>AudioWerks obviously isn't going to get any business from me in the future.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greynolds, post: 6142236, member: 593834"] I finally got around to fixing the rear floor mess myself. Ken448 had mentioned the bad color match on the carpet which I initially thought wasn't a big deal, but I later noticed that they had put the mismatched carpet OVER the original carpet on all of the rear floor panels. I wasn't at all happy about that because it would have meant a lot of work to remove it at some later date to sell the vehicle without the audio system or if I wanted to change things, etc. The carpet also didn't adhere well on top of the original carpet, so some of it started coming off before too long. I made them remove the extra layer of carpet and clean up the glue that was left behind - this took them a few days. I gave up on them fixing the support for the rear floor properly as they just weren't getting it. Work kept me busy for a while, but I finally got time to fix this myself over the last few days (I'm in stay home vacation mode for 2 weeks - I hope to knock a bunch of things off of my to-do list). I removed what they used for the rear floor panel and replaced it with a sheet of 1/4" plywood and added LOTS of support underneath so I can now carry a non-trivial amount of weight in there without too much worry of damaging anything. I cut a pair of 8 inch holes in the plywood using a Rotozip circle cutter attachment and put steel grills over the holes so the sound from the subwoofers can get out. It really wasn't that difficult for me to do this myself and this isn't something I do on a regular basis. The shop that did the install shouldn't have had any trouble coming up with something similar. Rather than trying to find a really close match for the carpet, I decided to go with something that I felt contrasted well with the factory carpet. For the trim panel they had left loose in the front, I built a replacement box and put the same carpet on it, then screwed it in place so it won't move around. [IMG]http://www.geoff-reynolds.net/lexustoyota/highlanderradio/RearReinforcedForFloor.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.geoff-reynolds.net/lexustoyota/highlanderradio/RearNewFloor.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.geoff-reynolds.net/lexustoyota/highlanderradio/RearNewFloorFront.jpg[/IMG] AudioWerks obviously isn't going to get any business from me in the future. [/QUOTE]
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