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Old Nov 17, 2011 | 11:56 AM
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Default Beige interior, Black floor mats?

I have a pearl white GS350 with the tan interior. No matter how hard I try, the floor mats are impossible to keep clean. I was thinking about getting a factory set of black floor mats and putting then in the car. The dash and upper door panels are black so I think it might look good. Anyone try this?
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Old Nov 17, 2011 | 12:56 PM
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Why not just get all season mats?
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Old Nov 17, 2011 | 01:10 PM
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It's just floor mats, just buy them and stop stressing out.

I won't buy a car with anything but black carpeting myself, that beige stuff looks like hell so fast.
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Old Nov 17, 2011 | 01:49 PM
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some people in ls460 forum did that. i think it looks ok
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Old Nov 17, 2011 | 01:53 PM
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I did it on my legend. Works well, but black shows dirt very easily. Grey would be best for you.
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Old Nov 18, 2011 | 04:58 AM
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I have done this in my last 3 cars it looks fine in fact it looks so right that when I sold the last car I forgot to swap the mats back so now I'm left with cream mats from the old car so had to buy myself a new set not happy at over $240
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Old Nov 18, 2011 | 08:06 AM
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I've done this before and have this done to my wife's car and I love it. I think the contrast it gives makes it look so much better.
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Old Nov 18, 2011 | 10:12 AM
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I have the same car with black mats. I like it and so do other ppl that ride in my car
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Old Nov 18, 2011 | 10:56 AM
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Please post some pics if anybody has any. Pictures always speak louder than words.
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Old Nov 18, 2011 | 11:44 AM
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Black mats look fine. The Mrs. has black mats in her IS. Although they do get dirty, they don't look half as bad as the lighter colors do when they are dirty. Go for the black!
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Old Nov 18, 2011 | 12:26 PM
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I have black mats in mine and I have the light grey interior. Looks fine.
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Old Nov 18, 2011 | 09:51 PM
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I have black mats in my car, which have black interior.
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Old Nov 19, 2011 | 08:56 AM
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I was given a RX350 loaner car with black mats and beige interior, it doesn't look right. Beige carpet, black mats looks awful, just my opinion.
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Old Nov 19, 2011 | 09:14 AM
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Originally Posted by TheDream
I did it on my legend. Works well, but black shows dirt very easily. Grey would be best for you.
Grey would look terribly with beige carpets! Black would look fine, particularly because of the other black accents in the interior.
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Old Nov 19, 2011 | 01:22 PM
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my uncle had his carpets painted black in his tan interior. There is a carpet protectant, where you can probably spray it on your floormats to keep it from staining so easily with dirt. I forgot who makes it, but there's a guy out here in orlando who sprays shoes with that same product, and he's been out in mud puddles and rain and it hasn't faded his custom painted shoes
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