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I'm looking for a set of one-piece floor mats for the front and back of my Ext Cab. It seems that everywhere I look, there are plenty of two-piece sets and an available center hump mat, but I don't like the idea of having something spill and run down the hump and under the floor mat. :cheers: It happened when I had my '00 for only one week and I spilled a 20 oz. cup of coffee that I hadn't even taken a sip of! Talk about a nasty mess.

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Catch-All makes a ruberized one-piece mat for the Ex-Cabs. Here's a post I made on this topic a few months ago:

 

"Of all the products I've tried I like the Husky trays (not mats) the best. Drivers side coverage and liquid holding is excellent.

 

But I don't think the Husky's cover enough of the carpet on the passenger side. They do a good job holding liquids and dirt down in the main passenger foot-well area, but riders will naturally want to shift their feet around occasionally, and that means they will sometimes set their left foot up on the small shelf just below the main center hump.

 

I have a 1/2 ton truck with the full center console, so although it's a bit awkward for the rider to put their left foot all the way up onto the top of the main center hump, on the little ledge next to the console, that small shelf further down makes a nice footrest. It’s a low bump that’s formed underneath the carpet by the rear passenger air conditioning duct, which goes under the passenger seat into the back (Extended Cab). The Husky tray does not cover that low shelf very well, so the carpet started showing some dirt and a little wear there.

 

My solution? I recently I bought a different product that is working out great so far. It’s the full, total coverage, side-to-side (door-to-door) floor mat from Catch-All. It’s the all-rubber version (no pile carpeting molded into it like the standard Catch-All’s). It provides a full tray for the driver’s side, goes completely over the center hump – it goes underneath the center console – down the passengers side totally covering all those ledges and shelves, then forming a complete tray in the passenger side foot well also. Looks great, and covers everything in both foot wells, as well as all the carpeting on both sides of the center hump.

 

But it’s not perfect – two problems;

 

(1) The outer lip of the Catch-All mat isn’t high enough to be as effective at catching liquids as the Husky tray. For that reason, I put my Husky’s right back in, on top of the Catch-All. The fit is real good; even better, I think, that when the Husky’s were in there by themselves. Looks good too – black Husky’s on tan colored Catch-All’s.

 

(2) While the molded shape of the Catch-All mat is a very good fit in both foot well areas, it simply didn’t seem to be wide enough. That is, the center hump seemed to be relatively too tall, and prevents the one-piece Catch-All from seating into both foot well at the same time. Catch-All’s design is just a little off, not being wide enough to stretch from door-to-door. If I got a good fit in the drivers side foot well, then the mat wouldn’t extend all the way over to the door on the passenger side. That same problem existed in reverse. Even though I made sure to install the mats on a very warm day, so they were nice and flexible, they still wouldn’t make full coverage.

 

So I cut the Catch-All one piece mat in two, making, in effect, two separate trays out of the original unit. There are three little cup-shaped depressions molded into the Catch-All mat where it sits on top of the center hump, and I sliced around those little cups, eliminating them completely. Then I laid the Catch-All mat back in (now two pieces), and re-installed the center console. Because of that, the mat now fits completely snug all the way over to both doors. The cut is completely underneath the center console so it doesn’t show and, more to the point, still provides total protection of the carpet in all areas where folks might put their feet. That is, the sides of the hump, below the center console, remain completely covered. The two stacked mats, Husky’s on top of the Catch-All’s, now provide a ‘double tray’ arrangement for holding dirt, water, etc.

 

So that is my solution. Hope this helps."

 

gnutruk

Guest chevydeerhunter
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Catch-All makes a ruberized one-piece mat for the Ex-Cabs. Here's a post I made on this topic a few months ago:

 

"Of all the products I've tried I like the Husky trays (not mats) the best. Drivers side coverage and liquid holding is excellent.

 

But I don't think the Husky's cover enough of the carpet on the passenger side. They do a good job holding liquids and dirt down in the main passenger foot-well area, but riders will naturally want to shift their feet around occasionally, and that means they will sometimes set their left foot up on the small shelf just below the main center hump.

 

I have a 1/2 ton truck with the full center console, so although it's a bit awkward for the rider to put their left foot all the way up onto the top of the main center hump, on the little ledge next to the console, that small shelf further down makes a nice footrest. It’s a low bump that’s formed underneath the carpet by the rear passenger air conditioning duct, which goes under the passenger seat into the back (Extended Cab). The Husky tray does not cover that low shelf very well, so the carpet started showing some dirt and a little wear there.

 

My solution? I recently I bought a different product that is working out great so far. It’s the full, total coverage, side-to-side (door-to-door) floor mat from Catch-All. It’s the all-rubber version (no pile carpeting molded into it like the standard Catch-All’s). It provides a full tray for the driver’s side, goes completely over the center hump – it goes underneath the center console – down the passengers side totally covering all those ledges and shelves, then forming a complete tray in the passenger side foot well also. Looks great, and covers everything in both foot wells, as well as all the carpeting on both sides of the center hump.

 

But it’s not perfect – two problems;

 

(1) The outer lip of the Catch-All mat isn’t high enough to be as effective at catching liquids as the Husky tray. For that reason, I put my Husky’s right back in, on top of the Catch-All. The fit is real good; even better, I think, that when the Husky’s were in there by themselves. Looks good too – black Husky’s on tan colored Catch-All’s.

 

(2) While the molded shape of the Catch-All mat is a very good fit in both foot well areas, it simply didn’t seem to be wide enough. That is, the center hump seemed to be relatively too tall, and prevents the one-piece Catch-All from seating into both foot well at the same time. Catch-All’s design is just a little off, not being wide enough to stretch from door-to-door. If I got a good fit in the drivers side foot well, then the mat wouldn’t extend all the way over to the door on the passenger side. That same problem existed in reverse. Even though I made sure to install the mats on a very warm day, so they were nice and flexible, they still wouldn’t make full coverage.

 

So I cut the Catch-All one piece mat in two, making, in effect, two separate trays out of the original unit. There are three little cup-shaped depressions molded into the Catch-All mat where it sits on top of the center hump, and I sliced around those little cups, eliminating them completely. Then I laid the Catch-All mat back in (now two pieces), and re-installed the center console. Because of that, the mat now fits completely snug all the way over to both doors. The cut is completely underneath the center console so it doesn’t show and, more to the point, still provides total protection of the carpet in all areas where folks might put their feet. That is, the sides of the hump, below the center console, remain completely covered. The two stacked mats, Husky’s on top of the Catch-All’s, now provide a ‘double tray’ arrangement for holding dirt, water, etc.

 

So that is my solution. Hope this helps."

 

gnutruk

 

 

 

 

Sounds great! If you can, I would appreciate some pics of the "surgery". Thanks!

 

Ray

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Sounds great! If you can, I would appreciate some pics of the "surgery". Thanks!

 

Ray

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry, no pics. I'm not a camera kind of guy - have a digital but it's currently not working - so I hope my description will get you started if you plan on giving those one-piece Catch-Alls a try.

 

If I had it all to do over again, perhaps I would wait before I sliced the mat down the middle where it crosses the hump. Maybe if it settled in place for a few days, especially in hot weather, it would have spread out more as it took the contour of the floor better. At the time I put them in, even though I made sure they were nice and soft, it just didn't look like they would ever expand out to the sides. But who knows . . . .

 

gnutruk

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