[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Make sure the car is in a warm environment, that makes the mat more pliable. I pulled one out of a junk yard car in January with 2+ inches of ice on top - that was difficult. The mat won't tear as easily as you might expect, but be careful. I give the bicycle patch idea credit to Neal Robbins, he was the one who told me, and me to Belk years ago. Basically, if you have a hole somewhere, like the heal area, you just cut a piece out of another mat or a small section from under the seat area, and fit it into the hole. Then use the bicycle inner tube repair kit to 'seal' it from the backside, use the rubber patch that is big enough to cover the entire piece that you inserted. The repair kit glue is ok, but I have found the some nice black RTV will work even better, and will actually squeeze up into any crevices between the mat and the inserted piece. This makes for a nice repair.

Also, remember that all mats are actually black, GM simply painted the topside with some cheap lacquer paint, blue, green, etc... So, the mats will look like new when you clean them real well with some lacquer thinner and a soft bathtub brush, let it dry, and spray on a very, very thin coat of black lacquer paint. This is good to do even if you have a mat that was black originally. If you have a blue for example that you are returning to black, the lacquer thinner will remove all of the blue paint from the high points of the rubber texture, only leaving some residual blue in the crevices. After you spray it with the black lacquer, it will look like new, and the only parts where the black lacquer might wear off will again be the high points - simply dust on some more lacquer paint every few years to freshen it up.