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

[Dave Ellis]

I'm in!  Black mat with any colour logo.

Dave


Robert Myers 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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