[s-cars] Trial Balloon - mats w/ logo

[David Kase]

I'm in!

Black with silver/gray logo would be preferred for me.

Kase

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Robert Myers <bob at chips-ur-s.com> wrote:

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> Hi Y'all,
>
> I've had a vague idea floating in my empty head (lotsa free space
> dontchaknow) for a while now.
>
> Fact #1:  Lloyds makes (or useta make anyway) carpet material floor
> mats in several colors which will custom fit our Audis.  Decent
> quality stuff but without any logo identification.  Frankly, I'd like
> to replace my old floor mats with new ones but would prefer to have
> the four ring logo on the new mats.  These appear to be totally
> NLA.  Lloyd's custom made mats are made to fit our cars and run ~$125
> or $85 depending on choice of four mat set or two mat set.  See this:
> http://www.autobarn.net/lloydultimats.html#bottom for example.
>
> Fact #2:  There are a number of companies which do custom
> embroidery.  I'm not sure they would be A) willing to work with the
> heavy material of floor mats and B) willing to do the four rings logo
> out of fear of copyright violation even though Audi no longer
> provides the items at all.  I have no idea what custom embroidery
> might cost but I'm sure that there will be a one time setup charge
> plus a per unit embroidery charge.  These costs per unit will almost
> certainly be lower if we have a larger number of items made.  The
> question is how much lower for how many items?
>
> If there might be sufficient interest to commit to purchase the basic
> mats up-front and then ship (drop ship maybe) the mats to the
> embroidery company (whoever that might be) and pay up front for their
> charges then I'd be willing to investigate to determine who might be
> willing to provide such a service and determine a cost per mat set if
> I can find someone.
>
> Question:  What colors would be preferred (black mats with silver
> rings, graphite mats w/ silver, brown mats w/ red or
> whatever)?  There may be some flexibility on the color combinations
> depending on the service provider.
>
> Question:  What size for the embroidered rings would be close to the
> original?  I can't provide any more than a guess at this point but if
> someone might happen to still have an original and can measure them
> that would be helpful.
>
> Question:  Does anyone have a good digital photo of an actual mat w/
> logo which you could send me?
>
> So:  if you are SERIOUSLY interested let me know fairly quickly so I
> can have some fairly solid numbers to use to discuss with the
> embroidery services.  Armed with numbers I can then do some inquiry
> to see what might be available.  This will almost certainly take a
> while so please be patient with me.  Also please realize that this is
> just a trial balloon which might just burst and end with zero
> actually accomplished.
>
> Bob
>
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