I purchased several feet vinyl floor runner to try and create something that will protect the areas the Honda All Weather Mats don't cover. I cut an area that would be able to fit up the sides and cover the dead foot pedal, but I'm not sure that the best way to cut the folds and fuse them. I have a pen-style soldering iron I was thinking about using to try and melt the edges together, but I didn't know if that work well or not. Does anyone have experience with working with vinyl mats?

Here is the driver floor area with the vinyl laid out


The roll I bought is 27" wide, and it looks like it should be wide enough to cover the trunk. I'll post back as I make progress.

The trunk mat fits pretty good, there's about 3/4" gap at the rear edge of the trunk.

 

Looks too flimsy to be useful.

 

I bought a roll of mailing paper to use as a pattern for the mats. I cut the driver side matting and taped it together inside the car. It's too cold outside to glue and I think it will work better if I can glue it inside the car. The all weather mat fits okay over it, but there's no place for the clips. I can probably come up with something for that later. I will post a picture tomorrow since it was dark when I put it together. I learned that colored duct tape has a different adhesive than the regular gray kind, it seems to stick better.

 

It does look to flimsy. And if you do wind up using make sure to secure it down good. I had some basic mats in our fit and the driver side would always slide up toward the pedals and try and bunch up. Tossed them out for some all weather mats.

 

Here's how I made the mats to fit. I used mailing paper cut to the size of the mat (I cut the mat to a piece large enough to fill the floor and sides) to get a pattern to trace on to the vinyl piece. Each of the fold points pretty much creates a triangle that I traced the lines with a marker.



I taped it out over the vinyl and cut the triangles, trying to leave a little bit and the convergence point so it stays attached to the main piece.



When it's all cut it looks like this.


After laying out the vinyl on the floor and getting all the fold points straightened out, I used black duct tape to keep the cutouts in place. If it were warmer I would use glue.



The all weather Honda mat fits snugly in my new tray.



I also made a cutout to match the shape of the trunk. I'm not concerned about needing the sides for an actual tray. I'm happy with something that protects the original fabric. It's a little hard to see, but it fit in pretty nicely.





They definitely doesn't look manufactured, but if they hold up through winter I'll be happy. I paid $22 for 10 feet of vinyl and it was enough to do the front liners and a mat for the trunk. The roll of mailing paper was about $6, and I have plenty of paper left for other projects. Most importantly, I'm happy with what I've created and it saves me the extra expense of Weathertech mats, at least temporarily.