What you do is ask to see their welders welds, look how much penitrate and go from there.

 

Does that involve removing seats?

 

thats why i got quoted at 8hrs@$65 labor bc of removing the carpet and seats...$520 [:'(]

 

the guys that just did mine charged 55 an hour and it took just over two hours. After all taxes and some other i paid 137.80 and they didnt pull my carpet it was just fine. I have the full length on my car from American Muscle. just got the car back less than an hour ago. havent really been able to try it out too much yet but i will tonight

 

once again. i totally forgot about the carpet when i had mine installed. yea i know dumbsh*t right? well i had absolutely no problems (i thought of it when they were done with one side and thought "oh what the hell if they F it up i'll blame them . naw i just didn't want to have to come back so i crossed my fingers) when they did mine. does that mean YOU won't have any problems? i cannot be sure.

 

How can you determine if you need to remove the carpet or not? Does it depend on the welder's skills or what?

 

i would assume it depends on the shop and if they want to take any chances on catching the carpet on fire or not...

 

The maximum Motorsports units have new seat bolts and the units bolt onto the new "longer" seatbolts with nuts, then you weld the subframe to the front miniframes, and rear torque boxes, you are nowhere near any carpet when you weld them. Now removing stuck seat bolts, that's another issue, I had to heat the threaded bosses with a torch and remove the broken off seat bolt with a vice grip. And my car was only two years old!!!!

John