Ford Floor Liner: Protect Your Ford’s Carpet from Dirt, Mud & Spills with Ford Floor Liners

Ford vehicles are equipped with a comfy (if not luxurious) interior, highlighted by a carpet that complements with the style of every other interior feature and component. Naturally, you would want to keep the cleanliness of this interior, especially the cleanliness of the carpet. But driving your Ford alone is not quite enjoyable. Sadly, passengers and your Ford’s carpet don’t seem to enjoy each other’s company well. So what can you do? Create a barrier between them inside your vehicle.

There are actually two kinds of accessories that you may install inside your Ford to keep its carpet protected. One is the floor mats and the other is the Ford floor liner. Both accessories are carpet protectors that can be removed easily for cleaning. Both can also contain spills and protect the carpet from mud, snow, salt and other carpet hazards. The difference between floor liners and carpet mats only lies on the extent of protection they offer.

Floor liners are heavy-duty waterproof carpet protectors. These carpet covers often feature a contoured design specific to the floor pan of your particular vehicle, although there are also universal-fit floor liners that are not necessarily custom-molded to the floorboards of any particular vehicle. In general, floor liners tend to cover more floor area than floor mats, thus offering a wider scope of protection. And while floor mats are usually thicker and heavier than floor liners, the watertight materials that floor liners are made of compensates for this thinness. Further, floor liners would also have a taller outer rim, allowing them to contain spills better than floor mats.

So if you enjoy your friend’s company while driving your Ford and yet you don’t want the vehicle’s carpet to be soiled or damaged, then better protect it with floor mats or a floor liner. If you only need gentle protection for your carpet, then floor mats should be fine. But if you and your friends are in for an off-road travel where a lot of dirt and mud may be brought inside the vehicle, a Ford floor liner would generally do better.