I just cannot bring myself to spend $280 on coco mats (for reference:that’s a complete new set of bilstein HDs).

Has anyone come up with a viable alternative? I’ve found a pretty decent looking instructables tutorial on cutting your own. Considerig giving it a crack...

Easy Way to Customize Floor Mats for Your Car or Truck: 13 Steps

Not a single person has tried this?
Perhaps I should start looking for used coco mats...

What does "coco" mean?
No, I just buy floor mats at Big Lots, cheap and easy.

My 1985 300D has the factory floor mats (loose, sit on top of the clipped-in carpet). I am guessing that was a $400 option. The OE ran to the dealer for every little thing (bad LED segment in radio, ...), so the M-B was sucking her dry, but I digress. Anyway, the factory floor mats are a poor design. The driver's mat has a strip which is supposed to sit on the slanted foot-rest, but it always flops onto the floor. They are also way to purty for a floor mat, unless you always remove your shoes and drive w/ socks.

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1964 & 65 Mopar's - Valiant, Dart, Newport
1996 & 2002 Chrysler minivans

“Coco mats” (google, first result), are probably the nicest, most robust mats you can buy. There are many references to them throughout the archives, and many happy owners -I however cannot justify the price

That floppy strip is supposed to be held to the foot rest with velcro. Does yours not have velcro?

I couldn't justify the price either...then my kids gave a set for my birthday. They are really nice.

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I had some leftover carpet from my home remodel after the flood. I cut one for my beater camry. The only problematic part is having it rug locked from the edges which was done by a person whom my carpet vendor told me of, this person did the stitch job from his garage.

He also gave me a scrap piece of a rug holder that makes rugs stay put on carpets. total cost was 10 dollars as it took him under 5 minutes to do this.

but - I would use a rough use carpet next time, plush home carpet sure feels nice in a car but it wears too quick. Mine looks beat to hell and back after 3 months.

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1995 E300D - The original humming machine (consumed by Flood 2017)
2000 E320 - The evolution (consumed by flood 2017)

That's an excellent point. The carpet binding is fairly easy to DIY. I bought a roll of instabind and a glue gun on amazon. The trick is of course finding rough/marine carpet remnants at home depot.

home depot is useless for this.

find a local carpet vendor - they have far better intel on finding such carpets and also materials too.

e.g. my local vendor also had oldschool jute pad for automotive carpet, I bought some from him to stick under the beater camry carpet. The guy at Home depot had zero clue on this.

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1995 E300D - The original humming machine (consumed by Flood 2017)
2000 E320 - The evolution (consumed by flood 2017)

I'm a fan of rubber mats and no carpet

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I like the idea, looks very do-able.

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'87 124.193 (300TD) "White Whale", ~392k miles, 3.5l IP fitted
'95 124.131 (E300) "Sapphire", 380k miles
'73 Balboa 20 "Sanctification"
Charleston SC

Lloyds and Avery mats are a lot cheaper than Cocos. They start around $100 for a set of four.

I'd like to see a decent pic of the DIY mats. The completed photos in the link are not they.

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The Coco mats are fantastic, the company has been around for decades, and the product is worth the price. The crappy dealer mats fall apart, and other aftermarket mats don't have the quality of the cocos.

"I drive a Mercedes, but I can't afford to put floor mats in it" LOL

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Car is worth $3k at best. Quality mat is $300. 10% of the car worth. It doesn't make sense. Make your own or buy from 99cents stores.

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1 x 87 300SDL
1 x 87 300D
1 x 87 300TDT wagon
1 x 83 300D
1 x 84 190D ( 5 sp ) - All R134 converted + keyless entry.

No Velcro when I got the car. I did try stick-on Velcro once but it didn't stay on long. I'll try again using Gorilla Glue. I cover the factory mats w/ cheap plastic ones, kind of like buying a new couch and keeping clear plastic on to protect the purty fabric.

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1964 & 65 Mopar's - Valiant, Dart, Newport
1996 & 2002 Chrysler minivans