[Graham]

I wish you could all see the relief on my face! <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/smile.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />



Graham

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[Jason Judd]

I am so totally jealous....It looks so clean!



Jason (the guy who gave up on his glue removal project)

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[SANDOVAL]

Grahm... wait... you missed a spot! Just kidding... looks great

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[Graham]

Should look even better when blown over with a fresh coat of paint.



I was so so close to giving up.



Jason,



I think you know what confronts you when you lift those carpets!



What a nightmare!!!



Graham

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[Eric_K]

It will look great with fresh paint. The only trick is keeping the overspray off of what is left in there.



Eric

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[Jason Judd]

Graham wrote:

I think you know what confronts you when you lift those carpets!

_____________________



I do now! Sheesh, what an incredible event.

I am in awe of those of you who have taken this project all the way.



Jason

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[Graham]

Eric,



I think I'm going to strip it right down before the paint and blow it in just under the dash avoiding the wires (hopefully!)



Jason,



I reckon it took me about 40 man hours so far and I still have the roof to do yet!



Graham

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[Lemming]

What removal method did you end up using? I need to get the job done on my 924S track car but have not been able to find the motivation.

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[Graham]

Hi Tim,



I used an adhesive remover for the residue and to remove the sound deadening and a heat gun to melt the thick stuff.



Have fun



Graham

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[Harvey]

Graham,

You obviously sniffed too much of the glue remover! It must have taken you a 100 hours to do that! Lithium or prozac would be an alternative but your car would just SEEM LIKE it was going faster. Good work! post pics when you finish your update?



Harvey

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[tloof]

Here is my solution to the gooey glue removal problem!!!











It took me about 60+ manhours to remove most of the major glue & foam lining. I used 2 gallons of laquer thinner, 1 bottle of Goo-Be-Gone, & about 5 rolls of paper towels to remove all the glue, but it was still slightly sticky afterwards...thus the addition of sound deadener Fatmat to eliminate the stickiness forever!!!!!! (the Fatmat installation added about another 40+ hours). Now the original carpet can go back in without being permanently glued down (I plan to use velcro strips to hold it in place). Relief at last!!

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[rxter]

Looks fabulous all around. A labor of love to be sure.



So if a person simply wanted to freshen his carpets up what are we looking at? Can a decent upholsterer do that without spending 100 hours on the job?



If I did that myself I might be tempted to get it painted and clear coated so show it off...

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[xrad]

how heavy is the Fatmat you put in?



Few ounces per sq ft? or heavy?

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[flash]

lol - i was going to ask the same question - however, the fatmat probably does a better job of sound deadening

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[tloof]

It's the thinner 3/64" stuff (actually it is 0.049" thick), and the stuff weighs 0.23 lb/sq ft. It took close to 50 sq ft to cover everything in the 968 (including the doors to help out the sound system), so it added about 11 lbs of total weight (there was some small wastage out of a 50 sq ft roll). I am also going back and adding about 20 sq ft of 1/2" Dynaliner foam insulation along the tunnel and up front in the foot wells to replace the stock foam that came in the car since alot of it got damaged when pulling the carpet out. That will add about another 1-2 lbs weight, but will insulate the vehicle better.



It does take quite a bit of effort to install though!!!

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[xrad]

It does look great!



(Hate to be the next owner trying to tear all of it out, hehe)

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[RS Barn]

I'm going to tell you a "Scary story"

After spending many, many hours of removal before we delivered Pablos car to cage guy we still had major glue.

My cage guy told me his technique of heating glue with a torch and then swiping with a rag soaked with lauquer thiner.

I stayed Far Far away.

He also smoked while doing this.

Good luck to anyone

Pete

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[PorscheDude]

[quote name='RS Barn' post='51110' date='Apr 18 2008, 09:41 PM']He also smoked while doing this.[/quote]



My kind of guy. <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/blink.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[tloof]

Here's additional pictures of the Dynaliner thermal insulation foam that I installed over the Fatmat on the tunnel, and over the original Porsche foam up front in each footwell.



















I should mention that to get all the glue removed I used a heat gun to soften up the harder glue so that it could be rolled into small balls that could be plucked out, as well as rolling all the more pliable glue into balls to be plucked out in the same way (including what was stuck on the underside of the carpeting). I also used Goo-Be-Gone poured into the floorboard areas where the glue was more gooey and soft to dissove it enough to be wiped out with paper towels. I then used laquer thinner to remove the remaining sticky glue (especially off my hands). All in all, it was a total nightmare pulling the carpets up and removing all the glue & damaged foam insulation. I am totally disgusted with Porsche by installing the carpeting in such a manner as this with all that glue!!!! (I will NEVER buy another Porsche ever again because of this experience!!).

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[PorscheDude]

In the end, it looks like you did a fantastic job.

I am sure it was not easy!

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