I've been running with the BedTred liner installed in the cargo area of my 2 door for about 2 weeks, and just bare floors up front. Decided to install BT in front yesterday, mostly because I didn't have a way to securely mount the slush mounts AND have them come out easily. I had them velcro'd down, but when lifting them to hose out, the Velcro pulls off of the back of the slushie rather than separating from the other piece of Velcro.
Summary: Really like the look. Easy installation. Front pieces fit better than the back, but leaving the BT underfloor tray liner out and trimming one piece seems to solve that readily. Very little need to use the supplied Velcro to stick this stuff down because it is molded and just can't really go anyplace anyway. Cost (just under $500 delivered for both kits, front and back) is high compared to nothing (just ripping out carpets,) or compared to ripping out carpets and putting back some type of rubber cargo mats. And cost is low compared to a full spray-in bedliner professionally done. And no need to remove seats, etc. (although note that I have had my rear seat sitting in the basement since the 3rd day I owned it.)
My intention was to make the Jeep fairly hydrophilic, since I run with Top-Up/Doors-Off/Windows-out most of the summer (stagecoach.) To this end I: pulled carpets; replaced with BedTred; pulled all drain plugs (9, iirc)); covered seats with Rugged Ridge neoprene; installed Jeep Backbone Security Trunk. Also, I keep a plastic tarp behind the drivers seat to cover both seats and the dash if I suspect rain is coming and it's parked, or most of the time overnight since it often rains unexpectedly in Georgia.
First, some pictures of the completed product: (please note that these were taken with a flash, which highlights any imperfections. The actual product looks better in real life.)
Okay, a brief tutorial on the install.
First, take out those nasty carpets with that stupid super-absorbent diaper on the back of it. Here's my pax side carpet -- please note it hasn't rained on the Jeep in 3 days, that was a light rain, and the top was up. This is cumulative soakage from the inevitable leaks.
Next, if you have slushies, you need to pry the anchors out of the OEM carpet and install them in the BedTred. I used a trim removal tool; I think a wide flat-blade screwdriver would work also, but it would be harder. It takes some wrist muscle to separate them. You will probably break a few tabs on the anchors, but there are about a dozen so you're fine. Just plan on only doing this once, though -- they won't stand up to many removals. And I couldn't easily find replacements on the internet. They may only be sold as part of the carpet set.
Next, you want to mount them into the BedTred. Fortunately, the molded BT allows you to set the slushie right where you want it to go, even without everything mounted in the Jeep. The mat fits snugly against all the contours of the BT. With the mat properly seated, I drilled a small hole down through the center of the slushie hole. In the picture I'm using my big 11/16s bit to illustrate, but you need to use a small pilot bit, like 1/8 or so. Something you can easily center and punch through. Alternatively you could draw the hole on the BT by sticking a red marker through the slushie hole.
It's best to do this for only one hole at a time. Drill the pilot hole, set the mat aside, drill the large hole with a 11/16s bit, press the anchor into place, re-mount the mat, and then repeat the pilot hole exercise for the other hole. This helps ensure that if you didn't get the first hole perfectly centered, you'll still have a chance to take that into account.
After both anchors are mounted, test fit the slushie, then pull it off. Time to install the BedTred. I didn't take any pictures of doing this because it's just so intuitive, and by the time I started pushing it under the plastic moldings and the seats, it just got finished and there was no picture to take except the ones I started this thread with. But the process is simple. You set the mat in the space, cram it under the center console, cram it around the seat legs, and it sort of natural crams itself under the outside door sill molding, at least mine did.
The instructions have you mount Velcro to the back (the back of the BT is like the soft side of Velcro, so the Velcro strips are just the hard side of Velcro, and you peel the backs and they adhese to the bare floor.) I did so, but before peeling the backs I just set everything in there and once you get it tucked it's simply not going anywhere. I did pull it up and peel the Velcro, but totally unnecessary. So don't worry about exact placement of it, etc.
Now, here are some pix of the back. I did it two weeks ago without a camera handy, but again, the install process is intuitive. I didn't even use the Velcro on the rear, figuring I wasn't sure if I was going to keep it and wanted to be able to return it. Well, I love it and have never gone back and velcro'd. If I need to in the future, no problem. This did lay down and mold itself even better over the first week I had it. Hot temps really help.
Note: my install was harder than most people's will be because I left my Jeep Backbone cargo deck in place, just removing the front panel so I could get the fender liners on. (If you have questions about the Backbone system, search for Jeep Backbone and you'll find a thread I started a few weeks ago about that.)
BedTred provides you with a big molded bathroom-sink piece that fits down under the cargo tray under the floor. I tried it at first, but that just gives you too many pieces -- it's a bear to get everything to align. And since I'm in and out of that cargo tray many times a week, I wanted simplicity. So I pulled the drain plug in there and just figured who cares if water splashes up on the underside of the plastic OEM storage tray. My setup now is, from bottom to top: OEM plastic storage tray; OEM carpeted cover (Without the OEM "JEEP-logo" mat on top of that); BedTred.
Also, the main BT mat is just too long. About an inch, iirc. I simply took a razor knife to it freehand and everything is perfect now. If you don't, when you close the tailgate, the back edge of the mat will slide forward a little, creating a "wave" in the mat somewhere. If you are meticulous, you would want to use a straightedge and carefully measure. I didn't. Your call.
And finally, my Rugged Ridge seat covers, part of the water-friendly plan.
And finally, a couple patriotic shots for the 4th:
Okay, that's all I got today.
Summary: Really like the look. Easy installation. Front pieces fit better than the back, but leaving the BT underfloor tray liner out and trimming one piece seems to solve that readily. Very little need to use the supplied Velcro to stick this stuff down because it is molded and just can't really go anyplace anyway. Cost (just under $500 delivered for both kits, front and back) is high compared to nothing (just ripping out carpets,) or compared to ripping out carpets and putting back some type of rubber cargo mats. And cost is low compared to a full spray-in bedliner professionally done. And no need to remove seats, etc. (although note that I have had my rear seat sitting in the basement since the 3rd day I owned it.)
My intention was to make the Jeep fairly hydrophilic, since I run with Top-Up/Doors-Off/Windows-out most of the summer (stagecoach.) To this end I: pulled carpets; replaced with BedTred; pulled all drain plugs (9, iirc)); covered seats with Rugged Ridge neoprene; installed Jeep Backbone Security Trunk. Also, I keep a plastic tarp behind the drivers seat to cover both seats and the dash if I suspect rain is coming and it's parked, or most of the time overnight since it often rains unexpectedly in Georgia.
First, some pictures of the completed product: (please note that these were taken with a flash, which highlights any imperfections. The actual product looks better in real life.)
Okay, a brief tutorial on the install.
First, take out those nasty carpets with that stupid super-absorbent diaper on the back of it. Here's my pax side carpet -- please note it hasn't rained on the Jeep in 3 days, that was a light rain, and the top was up. This is cumulative soakage from the inevitable leaks.
Next, if you have slushies, you need to pry the anchors out of the OEM carpet and install them in the BedTred. I used a trim removal tool; I think a wide flat-blade screwdriver would work also, but it would be harder. It takes some wrist muscle to separate them. You will probably break a few tabs on the anchors, but there are about a dozen so you're fine. Just plan on only doing this once, though -- they won't stand up to many removals. And I couldn't easily find replacements on the internet. They may only be sold as part of the carpet set.
Next, you want to mount them into the BedTred. Fortunately, the molded BT allows you to set the slushie right where you want it to go, even without everything mounted in the Jeep. The mat fits snugly against all the contours of the BT. With the mat properly seated, I drilled a small hole down through the center of the slushie hole. In the picture I'm using my big 11/16s bit to illustrate, but you need to use a small pilot bit, like 1/8 or so. Something you can easily center and punch through. Alternatively you could draw the hole on the BT by sticking a red marker through the slushie hole.
It's best to do this for only one hole at a time. Drill the pilot hole, set the mat aside, drill the large hole with a 11/16s bit, press the anchor into place, re-mount the mat, and then repeat the pilot hole exercise for the other hole. This helps ensure that if you didn't get the first hole perfectly centered, you'll still have a chance to take that into account.
After both anchors are mounted, test fit the slushie, then pull it off. Time to install the BedTred. I didn't take any pictures of doing this because it's just so intuitive, and by the time I started pushing it under the plastic moldings and the seats, it just got finished and there was no picture to take except the ones I started this thread with. But the process is simple. You set the mat in the space, cram it under the center console, cram it around the seat legs, and it sort of natural crams itself under the outside door sill molding, at least mine did.
The instructions have you mount Velcro to the back (the back of the BT is like the soft side of Velcro, so the Velcro strips are just the hard side of Velcro, and you peel the backs and they adhese to the bare floor.) I did so, but before peeling the backs I just set everything in there and once you get it tucked it's simply not going anywhere. I did pull it up and peel the Velcro, but totally unnecessary. So don't worry about exact placement of it, etc.
Now, here are some pix of the back. I did it two weeks ago without a camera handy, but again, the install process is intuitive. I didn't even use the Velcro on the rear, figuring I wasn't sure if I was going to keep it and wanted to be able to return it. Well, I love it and have never gone back and velcro'd. If I need to in the future, no problem. This did lay down and mold itself even better over the first week I had it. Hot temps really help.
Note: my install was harder than most people's will be because I left my Jeep Backbone cargo deck in place, just removing the front panel so I could get the fender liners on. (If you have questions about the Backbone system, search for Jeep Backbone and you'll find a thread I started a few weeks ago about that.)
BedTred provides you with a big molded bathroom-sink piece that fits down under the cargo tray under the floor. I tried it at first, but that just gives you too many pieces -- it's a bear to get everything to align. And since I'm in and out of that cargo tray many times a week, I wanted simplicity. So I pulled the drain plug in there and just figured who cares if water splashes up on the underside of the plastic OEM storage tray. My setup now is, from bottom to top: OEM plastic storage tray; OEM carpeted cover (Without the OEM "JEEP-logo" mat on top of that); BedTred.
Also, the main BT mat is just too long. About an inch, iirc. I simply took a razor knife to it freehand and everything is perfect now. If you don't, when you close the tailgate, the back edge of the mat will slide forward a little, creating a "wave" in the mat somewhere. If you are meticulous, you would want to use a straightedge and carefully measure. I didn't. Your call.
And finally, my Rugged Ridge seat covers, part of the water-friendly plan.
And finally, a couple patriotic shots for the 4th:
Okay, that's all I got today.