I transformed my motor with £15 Amazon kids’ play mat… I love it but others aren’t convinced
ONE driver has transformed their car by redesigning her car floor mats – but some aren’t fans of the switch.
Motorist Franja has revealed in a TikTok some DIY to make her car, a Ford Fiesta, a “little extra”.
Floor mats sit below your feet to stop mud and dirt from passengers’ shoes staining the car’s fabric.
The mats are usually dark coloured and often require cleaning with a vacuum cleaner or stain remover.
Franja has used the fabric from a classic children’s road play mat.
That’s the classic mat many British children grew up playing on – with grey streets, green fields, and colourful buildings.
The mats can be bought off Amazon for as little as £15.
In the clip, Franja reveals how she made the mats at home.
Firstly, she bought a version of the mat and then laid her existing floor mats on the back.
Franja then drew a line around the mats and cut out the shapes on the children’s toy mat.
Then, Franja burnt the edges of the cut out mat shapes to stop the new mats from fraying.
During the process, she reveals she used 10 lighters for the burning process.
The final clip shows the new mats in the footwell of her car.
Folks were divided over whether they liked Franja’s mat design selection.
One said: “When you will have to clean those carpets…you’ll regret it.”
Another reminisced about the mat and said: “Why do I remember having the exact same Matt when I was younger and playing on it.”
A third said: “This is extremely bent but this is happening to my car.”
Meanwhile, Wheeler Dealers host Marc Priestley has shared an agonising update on his Ford Fiesta stolen from him and Mike Brewer last year.
The former F1 mechanic and his Discovery Channel co-star spent over £11,000 restoring the classic before it was cruelly pinched in just minutes as they filmed.
The Ford Fiesta used to be produced in Britain, but the production line was axed in 2023.
Over 4.8million models were sold in the UK – globally, 22million have been sold.
It topped Britain’s annual sale charts 16 times, and has been hailed as Britain’s favourite vehicle.
20 fun facts about the Ford Fiesta
1. Before being named the Fiesta, its working title was ‘Bobcat’.
2. The base price in 1976 was £1,856, it is £9,995 today.
3. Black is the most popular colour (17%), then silver (15%) and blue (13%).
4. Famous owners have included model Nell McAndrew and Strictly Come Dancing winner Mark Ramprakash tangoed with the Fiesta with stunt drivers at the wheel in 2008 to mark the latest model’s arrival.
5. Fiesta sales topped 4,115,000 this month – beating the prior record of 4,106,000 set by the Escort (from 1968 to 2000).
6. Lined up nose-to-tail they would stretch almost twice around the coast of mainland Britain.
7. Or stacked on top of each other they would be higher than 650 Mount Everests.
8. Last year’s 122,000 UK Fiesta sales were the most for 18 years (139,552 in 1996). 65 per cent were Zetec models, 22 per cent Titanium, 10 per cent Style and three per cent ST.
9. The Fiesta was the top-selling UK car every month in 2013.
10. 67 per cent of Fiesta sales are for five-door models.
11. One is made every 86 seconds.
12. A 1.6-litre diesel model clocked 108mpg average over 340 miles to make it current champion of the UK’s annual MPG marathon.
13. The 1-litre 140PS version on sale next month has more power-per-litre than a Bugatti Veyron.
14. It would take 80 modern-day Fiestas to produce the same emissions as one 1976 model.
15. The most expensive Fiesta is the world rally car built by M-Sport in Cumbria. It costs a whopping £350,000.
16. There was a Fiesta “Focus” edition in 1995 — prior to the Focus being launched in 1998 as a Ford in its own right.
17. The 1992 1.6-litre Fiesta RS had a power output 130bhp today’s 1-litre offers 140Bhp.
18. 41 per cent of buyers opt for the 1.0 litre petrol engine, 36 per cent for the 1.25 petrol and nine per cent for the 1.6 petrol; 14 per cent choose the 1.5/1.6 diesel.
19. Kent firm Crayford have built a Fiesta convertible.
20. All Fiesta engines are usually engineered or assembled in the UK.