How to Choose the Perfect Set of Car Mats for Your Vehicle

Jun. 17, 2024

How to Choose the Perfect Set of Car Mats for Your Vehicle

Whether you just purchased a new auto or are looking to protect an existing vehicle, WeatherTech has you covered! We offer a wide variety of interior protection products that protect your vehicle&#;s interior, and in this article, we will cover everything you need to know when choosing the best set of floor mats for you.

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1. Which product fits my vehicle?

When you visit the WeatherTech.com homepage, you will notice a variety of products listed. WeatherTech offers a wide variety of products, including automotive, home and business, pet accessories and more. To locate products specifically designed for your vehicle, enter in your make, model, and year in the "Shop for Your Vehicle" selector at the top of the page. Once your vehicle is entered, you will arrive at the "My Vehicle" Page" which features our "WeatherTech Recommends" section. This section contains all products that will fit in the particular make, year and model of your vehicle.

2. How do I decide which product is right for me?

WeatherTech offers a variety of interior protection options, including FloorLiner, FloorLiner HP, All-Weather Floor Mats and Heavy Duty Trim-To-Fit Floor Mats. Each of these products are uniquely designed for a specific level of protection, contain a variety of different features, and are available at a number of different price points.

If you are looking for the ultimate level of protection for your vehicle&#;s foot well, look no further. The WeatherTech FloorLiner revolutionized the automotive products industry by combining innovative laser measurement technology with quality, American-made materials.

Design: The talented designers and engineers at WeatherTech designed the FloorLiner so that each set accurately and completely lines the interior carpet, providing unparalleled protection to your vehicle&#;s foot well. Each and every set of FloorLiners is laser-measured to the exact dimensions of your vehicle and designed to protect the front, back and even up the sides of your vehicle's foot well.

Materials: A patented High-Density Tri-Extruded (HDTE) material allows for a rigid core for strength, while offering surface friction to the carpet, as well as tactile feel to the surface. Advanced surfacing creates channels that carry fluids and debris to a lower reservoir with further channeling to help minimize fluid movement while driving. Once fluids become trapped in the reservoir, away from shoes and clothing, they are easily removed from the WeatherTech FloorLiner over the door sill.

The WeatherTech FloorLiner HP is the newest member of our interior protection line and is laser measured for an exact fit, completely covering your vehicle&#;s carpeted and vinyl floors. While not available for all vehicles at this time, this innovative design features a raised outer edge to partially cover the front, back and sides of your vehicle's foot well.

Design: The unique surface design molded into the FloorLiner HP creates channels that guide fluids, mud and other messes into a lower reservoir, away from your shoes, boots and clothes. This lower reservoir keeps messes contained and separated from your vehicle's interior. The reverse side of the FloorLiner HP houses specially designed retention systems that work with your existing manufacturer's hardware to keep the WeatherTech FloorLiner HP locked in place, while customized anti-skid texturing lines the underside of the mat, creating additional surface friction with your vehicle's carpet.

Materials: The FloorLiner HP is created using an advanced, rubber-like, Thermoplastic Elastomer (TPE) compound, making it both flexible and durable. 100% recyclable, this material is latex and PVC free. The FloorLiner HP is engineered and created to stand up in the most extreme weather conditions; they won't crack, curl or break down.

Similar to the FloorLiner, WeatherTech All-Weather Floor Mat&#;s are custom measured to fit your vehicle&#;s foot well. These flexible, all-season vehicle floor mats with are equipped with deep sculpted channels designed to trap water, road salt, mud and sand.

Design: The WeatherTech All-Weather Floor Mats are designed to shield your vehicle's floor from mud, leaves and other debris. All-Weather Floor Mats are engineered to stay flexible in even the coldest of temperatures and feature a protective, non-stick finish to make cleanup quick and easy. To prevent shifting, they include anti-skid ridges on the underside of the mat.

Materials: Our All-Weather Floor Mats are made from an advanced rubber-like Thermoplastic Elastomer (TPE) compound that is an OEM approved, virtually odorless, latex-free material, that contains no harmful PVCs, cadmium or lead and is 100% recyclable.

If you are looking for a superior level of protection you can custom trim to fit your vehicle, WeatherTech Trim-To-Fit Floor Mats are the choice for you. Our Trim-To-Fit Mats are advanced semi-universal Trim-to-Fit vehicle floor mats designed to trap dirt, mud, snow and other debris from your car, truck, SUV or minivan's interior.

Design: The WeatherTech Trim-To-Fit Floor Mats is made to fit virtually any vehicle flooring, due to its unique shaping and Trim-to-Fit features. The degree of research and design that went into the production of this mat has significantly contributed to its sustained rank as being the highest rated Trim-To-Fit Floor Mats among affordability, dependability and practicality.

Materials: We spared no expense when it came to the durability and dependability of our Trim-To-Fit Floor Mats. These universal-style floor mats are made from an advanced, rubber-like Thermoplastic Elastomer (TPE) compound that is an OEM approved, virtually odorless, latex-free material that contains no harmful PVCs, cadmium, or lead and is 100% recyclable. To ensure proper safety, the Trim-to-Fit Mat features the patented MatGrip retention device, as well as molded-in nibs for a secure mat-to-floor interface.

Also available are our Heavy Duty Trim-To-Fit Floor Mats Semi-Universal Floor Mats.

3. Making your purchase

After you have decided which set of interior protection mats are right for you, making the purchase is simple!

Click the product image of the product you would like to purchase
Select your vehicle&#;s options from the pop-up selector (These questions help determine the specific WeatherTech products that we have to offer for your vehicle.)
Select your set and color
Add to Cart
Proceed to checkout

Once you have completed the checkout process, your order will be processed, shipped and you will be on your way to total vehicle protection!

Best Car Mat Brands for Your Vehicle

Types of Car Mats

Types of Car Floor Mats

What areas are you looking to protect in your car? Whether it&#;s replacing the set due to the heel rub on the driver&#;s mat, improving traction or drainage, or keeping your car safe from leaks in the cargo area, there are three general differences.

Floor mats are generally carpeted floor mats. They&#;re flexible and often color-matched to be a direct replacement for your car&#;s factory mats.
All-weather mats offer better protection if you drive in wet, snowy, or dirty conditions. Typically, they have a lip around the edge to contain moisture and deep ridges to help keep water and dirt away from your pantleg cuffs. Some types are universal fit while others are a direct fit that even uses the factory floor mat hooks.
Trunk mats essentially perform a similar duty, but in the cargo area. They can be made of plastic, rubber, or carpeted material. These types of mats are generally fitted for your vehicle&#;s trunk to prevent cargo from slipping and sliding, as well as protecting spills from getting through to the underlying factory carpeting.

Top Car Mat Brands

There are plenty of brands on the market that carry products that fit in the car mat category. They range from perfect-fit rubber all-weather mats to carpeted and branded mats, as well as cargo or trunk mats. These are five of the top car mat brands and what they can offer.

Weathertech

Arguably the best-known brand in the car mat segment, Weathertech offers the full gamut of products. One of the most popular is the DigitalFit FloorLiner that uses laser-precise measurements for every vehicle they offer, and they integrate an over-the-sill fitment and a fluid reservoir for the best possible protection for clothes and shoes.

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Weathertech also offers all-weather mat sets designed to for certain makes and models, trimmable for an exact fit, with deep ridges, and using the factory mat hooks. Also, you&#;ll find they offer trunk mats and DigitalFit trunk liners that work much like the floor mat variety.

Rugged Ridge

As the name betrays, these mats are rugged. Intended primarily for trucks and SUVs that play hard on- and off-road, they have a high wall on the roll-reinforced edge that can be pulled out to clean them off after a tough trail run. Their range include front and rear floor mats and cargo mats that drop in place perfectly for the select models they provide mats for.

Husky Liners

Deep ridges, flexible, and either trimmable or a custom fit. Husky Liners is also a huge name in the industry, and they&#;re competitive for the best performing and the most cost-effective mats. They use common colors for their Heavy Duty Floor mats to compliment your interior, and the driver&#;s heel area is reinforced to prevent the all-too-common wear pattern.

FANMATS

If you&#;re looking to rep your team colors and keep your carpets spotless at the same time, FANMATS is where it&#;s at. They offer mats with minor and major league team emblems on them, from carpeted floor mats that are embroidered to vinyl car mats with a 3D team logo. They specialize in universal mats, and the price is right too.

Coverking

Maybe you&#;re looking to replace your factory mats, but the OEM ones aren&#;t available anymore or they&#;re too expensive. The best car floor mats as factory replacements could come from Coverking. A huge range of carpeted mats in colors intended to match your car&#;s interior are available in 40- or 70-ounce piles. They&#;re non-slip with the little rubber nibs on the back, and Coverking makes them vehicle-specific for a perfect fit.

What to Look for When Choosing Car Mats

When you&#;re in the market for new car mats, there are five criteria that reign supreme as factors for your decision. Consider:

The material they&#;re made from. Carpet replicates the factory look and feel, and the thicker-pile versions reduce fatigue. But, the trade-off is that they&#;ll eventually wear. Plastic or rubber mats tend to look and feel more utilitarian, but they&#;re going to offer protection for years longer.
Fitment. Universal-fit floor and trunk mats can be trimmed for a more precise fit if they&#;re too large, but if they&#;re too small, they can slide around. A direct-fit mat, designed to fit your year, make, and model, offers a better look and safer experience.
How long they&#;ll last. The adage, &#;you get what you pay for&#; applies here. Higher-quality materials that last longer are used with the more expensive brands like Husky Liners and Weathertech, but that might not matter if you&#;re simply replacing the mats to sell your car.
Design. Universal mats are definitely better than not having mats at all. And maybe you want to change up the look with your team&#;s logo or an accent carpet color. You&#;ll need to think about how the mats will affect the look you want.
Price. Spending $20 to $50 on a set of floor mats might be in your budget, or you might be happy to spend $200 or more for the set of mats.

Regardless of what matters most to you, you&#;ll find the car mats you need at AutoZone. Shop from an amazing selection of the best car mat brands in one place, and get your new mats quickly with options like Free Next-Day Delivery, or pick them up at your local store.

FAQ/People Also Ask

What types of car mats are available?

There are carpeted and rubber floor mats in a range of styles and sizes, as well as trunk liners or mats.

What are the top car mat brands?

Five of the top brands you should consider are Husky Liners, Coverking, FANMATS, Weathertech, and Rugged Ridge.

How do I choose the best car mats for my vehicle?

Consider the materials, fitment, design, and materials they&#;re made of, as well as price.

Do I need to buy car mats specifically designed for my make and model of car?

You don&#;t need to buy vehicle-specific car mats, no. There are universal-fit options as well, but mats specifically for your make and model tend to fit better.

What materials are car mats made of?

Factory-style carpeted mats are made of nylon fiber while other car mats are made of materials like vinyl, thermoplastic elastomer, and natural heavy-duty rubber.

Can car mats protect my car&#;s interior from stains and spills?

Yes, they can. If your floor mats are watertight, they can save your interior from stains and damage due to spills.

Can car mats affect the resale value of my vehicle?

Absolutely. Installing proper-fitting floor mats can not only cover wear on factory carpeting, but they demonstrate that you&#;ve cared for your car.

Contact us to discuss your requirements of car mat material supplier. Our experienced sales team can help you identify the options that best suit your needs.