Anyone know where to buy it? Preferably colored and cheap. Out of ideas as to where I can pick some up, need it for a eg hatch

 

Check www.hondaautomotiveparts.com or www.partstrain.com. Not %100 about carpeting, but these are good sites for Honda owners none the less.

 

Google automotive carpet. There's even an automotivecarpet.com. As long as it's pre-molded for your car, there isn't alot of technology where carpet is concerned. Ask all of the sites to send you swatches and get the color and fabric you like the best.

 

hondaauto~ only had 2005-2008 or so and partstrain didn't have any carpeting, checking automotivecarpet.com as we speak.. well, i type

 

damn, that ***** expensive

 

Have you checked your local bone yards, [pick&pulls]Just got a black one for my 94LS, almost mint and $20 plus another $20 for 4 OEM floor mats, also mint. 94

 

yeah, guess i'll have to, it won't be perfect, but oh well.. better than not havin a carpet.. i wonder if it's worth going to a local upholstery shop and just buying a carpet and putting it in myself

 

Don't try to put in carpet unless it's molded for your car. I tried it myself years ago and have seen others try it since. It requires alot of stiching to look even halfway good and the stiches have to be very strong.

 

can't i just mold it on and use some strong adhesive? i know the body shop i go to school at has some white and black pasty **** that when it gets mixed together it's wicked strong, i forget the name

 

Basicly, any fabric that has enough flexibility to conform to the contours of the vehicle won't be strong enough to stand up to daily use. I don't know of any material considered to be "carpet" that has that kind of flexibility. You have to sew pieces/flaps of the carpet to create the slight bowl shape of the interior floor.

 

Ditto the above^^^
Even a worn carpet from a wrecked car will be better then anything you can "make", and gluing carpeting to the floor-pan of your car is something you would regret later, [when it needs to be removed for some reason].

Spend some time at the bone yards in your area, you may just get lucky.

The carpet and floor mats I found was when I was getting parts for my 89 Dynasty winter car.

Hint, $10 and a promise of another $10 or more, [depending on what you can use] to a bone yard worker for calling you when a car with parts you can use comes in is a great way to get first dibs on a wreck, that's how I got my "spare" 1.8L w/transmission and a few other parts and sold the rest.
I work at an auto A/C shop and we recover A/C refrigerant from wrecked cars, I had a recovery at, [this is no BS] Honest Al's Wrecking, an old school bone yard, while doing the recovery I was looking around the yard for a G3 I could pull some parts from, only to find the ones there had been gutted for any good or usable parts, I slipped a yard grunt $10 to call me anytime a G3 came in, in any condition, a few weeks later he called to let me know a 94LS was on it's way in, I took time off work and ripped out to the yard, to find a black 94LS with only 52,000K on it, bent almost in half, kid slid into a tree.
Because this was not a pick&pull and I could not pull stuff off the car myself, I took the whole car, pulled the parts I wanted and sold the rest to a friend at a local tuner shop, who pulled the suspension for his Civic, sold the hatch to a customer along with the undamaged interior parts to another customer.
This is the best part and the moral of the story, I paid $1000 for the car [FOB my back yard], I gave the yard grunt another $20, "finders fee", pulled the engine/transmission and some other parts, sold the car to my friend for $500, he pulled the suspension for his Civic, and sold the hatch and some interior parts to some of his customers and the shell to a body shop who needed the rear quarters.
That $10 got me an engine and transmission with almost a quarter the mileage of my 94LS, plus some other parts I needed, it got my friend the Integra suspension he wanted for his Civic, the black hatch to a customer of his, and [although I am no sure why] the butt ugly, **** brown/tan interior parts to another customer and the shell to a body shop, let me make it clear, the $10 went to a yard grunt, not owners or managers, they all have "friends" that get those calls. 94

 

If you're really interested in a colored carpet, you can take FCM's advice, get a stock carpet and just dye it. You'd want to investigate different dying methods to see what will stand up the best to foot traffic. You would also want to use floor mats to help keep the color intact but I think it might work well for you.

 

that's true. th only problem i can think of with dying it red is, most carpets are darker, and it'll be hard to find a light eg hatch carpet that will dye red easily. otherwise i'm completely happy with black

 

If you'll be happy with black then definately go with it. Even great colored carpet will show dirt very quickly and looks real bad when it's old and worn. Hope you find a great deal.

 

thanks a lot man. i actually think there is a "civic only" or "honda only" junkyard about 20 minutes away, i'll check it out in a week or so

 

i paid 16 dollars at the junk yard i used an eg9 carpet take your time un-installing its easy to rip!

 

looks good. i tore mine apart when taking it out. i couldn't figure out how to get it apart from the seatbelt ****, and underneath the dash/console i had to rip it