Hi everyone... looking for some expertise here.

Bought my 05 IP 6MT sedan in Feb... it's my weekend car so I don't take it out much (still on my second tank of gas), but I noticed last weekend that my trunk mat is the cheap, thin carpet that I can get at Home Depot for cents on the yard.

Is Infiniti really charging $70 for this? I called the salesman at the dealer and he told me that if I didn't pay $70 for this mat, then the trunk would be bare sheetmetal.

Does that sound right, or am I being given the runaround here? If anyone owns a car with the $70 trunkmat, is it a finished carpet with an Infiniti logo/embroidering?

Thanks...

 

The mat goes over the stock carpet. Yes, the mat is worth about $5.

 

Carpet that covers the existing carpet:

http://infinitipa.zoovy.com/product/999E3-JN001

 

Thanks for the input.

So it's actually two pieces then? A "nicer" carpet that goes over a "cheaper" carpet? All I have is the single cheap mat.

If that's the case, the dealer delivered my car *without* the mat that I paid for and is lying through their teeth to prevent me from getting it....

 

Yep. The $70 carpet mat goes over the top of the cheap standard trunk carpet. The carpet mat is pretty nice (it better be for $70 !!).

 

When I picked my car up last summer I was doing my final checks and I saw the trunk mat but thought it was just the standard rug (though it does have 'G35' embroidered on it). I ran to find my salesman and he had the prep guy bring another one but it was the same as the one that I already had.

I thought it was more of a tray is what I'm saying. It looks fine either way. Good luck trying to get the dealer to cough one up.

 

Hmmn... thanks for the input everyone. My trunk mat has finished edges... but it's pretty thin and it definitely does not have any stitching or logos on it. I hope they didn't change it for 05, otherwise I'll look really stupid asking for something that I already have.

Thanks... will see what the dealer has to say about it tomorrow.

 

My '05 sedan trunk mat is fairly high quality - pretty thick, finished edges, and a nice, big embroidered Mt. Fujo logo right in the middle of it.

 

the $70 trunk mat is the same material that the floor mats in the car are made of. if you bought the premium package, it should have cam standard with the car.

 

Thats Weird.. mine says "G35"

 

I don't have the premium package, but I have the separate $70 option for a "trunk mat w/ space saver tire". No logos of any kind.

 

Has anyone ever actually paid for this option? I thought it was understood that the dealers would just throw them in when asked.

It's a thicker carpet- G35 and Infiniti logo embroidered in the center, with finished stitched edges.

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I think it is safe to say all of the mats are thin and cheap.

 

My 05 has the logo also.

 

Thanks all, got this resolved!

After some hemming and hawwing from the dealer, I pointed out the mats on two new G35s, one with and one without the option and compared to my car... should be here within a week because they had to special order it.