FYI to the ITR community:

Just did a random search for a set of mats for my R and I discovered the price went up. Highest I've seen them was close to $400 and lowest was $289. I do have a brand new set that i paid $89.00 roughly two years ago from hondafloormats.com that I planned on using after I get my R back on the road, I don't know how I feel about that now. I sort of want to leave them in the box wrapped in the plastic, or at least buy another set to throw in the back of my closet.

Anyone who plans on holding on to their R for as long (plan on keeping the car forever) as I do plan on picking up a set or two before they reach a $1,000 or are discontinued?

 

Wow... Now everyone will start gouging on prices even more.

 

confirmed, dealer cost is 237.09.
pretty much bull **** from Honda since didn't cost them anymore to make them

 

I went to the dealer months ago llooking for a set and waas told they don't make them anymore and could not get them and they dont have any in the system to obtain.

 

Yeah- up until recently, you could buy them for $109 all day long from Acura dealers via eBay. Not sure what happened, but they suddenly tripled in price.

 

Try to get a set of the discountinued 98 spec bnib checkered one now LOL even more $$$ there is only few set around (private seller ) .The 2001 spec are getting up there in price few more year and they`re gonna be $$$!

 

don't feel too bad, the itr was discontinued in 01, the s2000 hardtops are out of production and unavailable and that was a much more recent car.


cutting parts is one way they drive us toward new cars

 

You can't rape the willing.

Mike

 

i bought a set for my '01 R back in '05 for about $80 when I first got it. The orginal set had a heel whole worn into it. It only took about a year before the new set did the same thing. $240 isn't worth it unless they redesigned and made them more durable. I bought a set for my em1 from honda and they are a lot better quality, they must have a better supplier for the civics. If you DD your R you're better off buying a set of weathertechs.

 

I do daily drive my R so I was considering buying those clear mats they sell at Wal mart, autozone, ect; but the mats I feel complement the interior. I replaced old, worn out mats with new ones and I though it was a day and night difference for the interior. I wonder if there is like a clear cover/mat that we can put over the entire mat. I feel like I'm talking about a Ferrari here but we are now talking about $400 mats we use to put our feet on while we drive our $24,450 car, seems crazy but I'm that in love..

 

Weathertechs FTW or keep your old mats for daily and a good pair for showing off.

 

Damn, I bought a set in December 2012 from delray and they were not that expensive. Should have bought two sets.

 

But I always need it to look clean!

And they're $296 at Delray now.

 

I know, I like my car to look clean always but Im not using my brand new checkered floormats or trunk mat for any kind of driving. Besides, the black weathertechs look nice for daily driving chores.

 

83600-ST7-A50ZA

INTEGRA TYPE-R CARPETED FLOOR MAT SET

We retail these for $512.11 at Pohanka Acura in Chantilly, VA. Still available for special order from our New Jersy warehouse. RIDICULOUS.

-greg

 

lol $512 they can keep them and i"ll stitch a red R in to some weather techs.

 

Ha!! Crazy. I bought a mint (might as well have been new) set for $40 a while back after my GF spilled a full cup of coffee all over my R. I gave away my old ones. Oh well.

 

I noticed the same thing when I got my car a few months ago! In comparison, you can buy S2000 mats for a fraction of the cost.

 

And its the kind of item that if you buy them you cant really use them if you want them to retain their value.

 

People are going to have to start taking their shoes off when they get in to my caR.

 

The standard Integra mats have sky rocketed in price too.

 

Everything is going up, it's not that they use a special material on the ITR mats that cost more and their price reflects, it's a business tactic, but most of all it's greed.

 

you know the most durable ones i have ever used were the thick OEM civic EG mats. my dad bought a new EG in 1993, ran up 240k miles on it, i took them before it was sold, put them in the integra, ran 100k miles on them and they still were in good shape when i sold the teg

 

I have 5 sets brand new in the plastic lol. One new set in my R and the rest are an investment lol

 

I just picked up a free set of front mats someone was giving away, they just need a little cleaning