Good Morning folks,
I received my Weathertech Cargo Liner yesterday for my '14 Durango. I also ordered all three rows of floor mats and they are due here today. That said, I left work well after dark last night and stopped at a local car wash to pull the Cargo Liner out of the box and see how it looks/fit in the back of the Durango. Needless to say, I was very disappointed. The mat actually needs to be about 5 inches wider as it does not cover from wheel well to wheel well in the back. At the very back edge of the liner, the back of the vehicle has a curve to the sill and the liner is straight. Those defects I could actually live with. What I do not think I can live with is that there is not a RIGID lip to the liner on all 4 sides. Where the third row seat belts come up, there is a cut “V” in the side of the liner. This would let spilled liquid (ie. Gallon of milk) leak though the edges. Also the side lips are not rigid enough and they simply relax and lay down. With the third row seats folded, the front of the liner is elevated above the rear by about two inches, and so liquid spilled at front will run to the back. It appears that the back of the Cargo Liner does not have a true lip, it simply lays flat, so anything spilled will run all the way to the back and onto the door sill and carpet. This is simply not acceptable.
So disappointed in fact, that I have not received the Weathertech floor mats yet and I just ordered a full mat set with cargo liner from Husky Liners. I have a full set of Husky liners in a 2009 Dodge Nitro and the edges of all mats and cargo liner have a full 2 inch rigid lip around them and I have never had an instance of them not keeping mud, snow, or spilled coffee, broken/leaking milk jug from grocery store, etc. from damaging my carpets. It was too dark last night to take photos to send you of the mis-fit and poor liner lips, but I will attempt to do that this afternoon and add to this post. I have heard good things about Wheathertech floor mats and like the thickness I saw in someone elses mats, but the descriptions on Weathertech's website are not sufficient to tell all features. The two floor hooks that keep the carpet mats in front in place on the Durango appear to be “cut out” in the Weathertech mats and I cannot tell from photos or description if this is the case, but they look cut out on the website photos. The Husky liners have a bump in the mat to cover the hooks, but the mat is not “cut out” to accommodate the hook and so no leak worries.
At a minimum, I believe I will return Cargo Liner to Weathertech. One of the full sets will also be returned. I will further evaluate once I receive the Weathertech floor mats today. Then I will box them up and wait a couple more days and install the Husky Liners when they arrive. I promose to continue this post with photos of the mats installed. I am pretty sure the Husky Cargo Liner will be preferable. I have ordered tan as I have the light frost tan interior and I prefer to lighten the interior of the vehicle with the mats. I am not a fan of the black carpet. With the light frost tan interior (see my photos in Sandstone Pearl Coat thread) the headlier and door panels are also tan which substantially brightens interior over the black headliner with other interiors.
I received my Weathertech Cargo Liner yesterday for my '14 Durango. I also ordered all three rows of floor mats and they are due here today. That said, I left work well after dark last night and stopped at a local car wash to pull the Cargo Liner out of the box and see how it looks/fit in the back of the Durango. Needless to say, I was very disappointed. The mat actually needs to be about 5 inches wider as it does not cover from wheel well to wheel well in the back. At the very back edge of the liner, the back of the vehicle has a curve to the sill and the liner is straight. Those defects I could actually live with. What I do not think I can live with is that there is not a RIGID lip to the liner on all 4 sides. Where the third row seat belts come up, there is a cut “V” in the side of the liner. This would let spilled liquid (ie. Gallon of milk) leak though the edges. Also the side lips are not rigid enough and they simply relax and lay down. With the third row seats folded, the front of the liner is elevated above the rear by about two inches, and so liquid spilled at front will run to the back. It appears that the back of the Cargo Liner does not have a true lip, it simply lays flat, so anything spilled will run all the way to the back and onto the door sill and carpet. This is simply not acceptable.
So disappointed in fact, that I have not received the Weathertech floor mats yet and I just ordered a full mat set with cargo liner from Husky Liners. I have a full set of Husky liners in a 2009 Dodge Nitro and the edges of all mats and cargo liner have a full 2 inch rigid lip around them and I have never had an instance of them not keeping mud, snow, or spilled coffee, broken/leaking milk jug from grocery store, etc. from damaging my carpets. It was too dark last night to take photos to send you of the mis-fit and poor liner lips, but I will attempt to do that this afternoon and add to this post. I have heard good things about Wheathertech floor mats and like the thickness I saw in someone elses mats, but the descriptions on Weathertech's website are not sufficient to tell all features. The two floor hooks that keep the carpet mats in front in place on the Durango appear to be “cut out” in the Weathertech mats and I cannot tell from photos or description if this is the case, but they look cut out on the website photos. The Husky liners have a bump in the mat to cover the hooks, but the mat is not “cut out” to accommodate the hook and so no leak worries.
At a minimum, I believe I will return Cargo Liner to Weathertech. One of the full sets will also be returned. I will further evaluate once I receive the Weathertech floor mats today. Then I will box them up and wait a couple more days and install the Husky Liners when they arrive. I promose to continue this post with photos of the mats installed. I am pretty sure the Husky Cargo Liner will be preferable. I have ordered tan as I have the light frost tan interior and I prefer to lighten the interior of the vehicle with the mats. I am not a fan of the black carpet. With the light frost tan interior (see my photos in Sandstone Pearl Coat thread) the headlier and door panels are also tan which substantially brightens interior over the black headliner with other interiors.
I'm not going to post pics of the mopars as ppl have already posted pics of the them. There is a company I found that makes third row with bucket mat someone mentioned them earlier in this thread. They are called Lloyd mats and they have the north ridge which is their higher quality rubber mats. I got the third row and full cargo with third row down. The cover isn't as full as weather tech or husky would be but they were fairly inexpensive and cover as good as the mopars and for my needs as third row won't be used often they work for me. See pics...
