Rubber Flooring

[steveroche]

Been thinking about removing the carpet, but I want something a little thicker than bed liner, with better sound deadening qualities. While still being weatherproof and durable. I came across the idea of using rubber floor mats used in gyms and other places. It is 3/8 thick rubber mat that you roll out. It isn't that heavy and I could use a double stick tape and an epoxy to adhere it to the floor of the truck. It would cover stock wiring plus provide a durable, weatherproof flooring while providing some good sound deadening.

Just wanted to bounce the idea off you guys and see if anyone had some insight into this stuff.

I just think it would be good for a number of reasons.
I see a lot of mud, so this would be easier to clean than carpet and water cant seep through it into the floorboards.
I am making a rear storage unit to cover the trunk which will also have integrated into it some sound system components. This could provide good sound deadening, possibly better than Dynamat or an equivalent.

http://www.rubberflooringinc.com/rubber-roll/commercial-rubber-roll.html

[TSAdventurez]

Have you seen the flooring in the Fj cruisers? It's similar to what ur lookin for

[steveroche]

Yea that's actually where I got the idea from, my buddy has a trail team FJ and suggested I remove my carpet and bedline it. I want something thicker though, I think this stuff is going to work perfectly...

[NC_IslandRunner]

Sounds like a good idea, I the noise didn't get too bad with the bedliner but with GuardDogs it was already loud. I will be relining the cargo area of my truck with a better product than what I used as it scratchs right off. It will due for the front for now, may upgrade to rubber if what you do looks good.

[steveroche]

I was just thinking about this stuff they use for gym floors, it may be too stiff and won't mold correctly to the contours of the floor pans. I'm going to do this, but I need to do a little searching first for something a bit softer and easier to mold to shapes without worrying about it popping back to its original shape.

[bartonmd]

I wouldn't... Why would you want to create a way for your floor to rust from the inside out? My truck has rubber floors, and there the rubber ends and the salt-water drained, it's rusted through...

Plus, the gym floor stuff is pretty dense, won't go into the contours, and is actually pretty heavy. It's solid rubber.

Why not just do extra thick bedliner, or maybe REAL bedliner (Rhino or Line-X), not the stuff from the cans? When I did my truck bed, I priced it out, and paying them to do it was 2x the price of doing it myself. I figured that I'd have to re-do the stuff from a can at least once, since it's not as thick, and not anywhere NEAR as durable; so paying once to get it done right would cost the same or less than doing it twice, myself.

Mike

Mike