It’s a Jeep, it’s going to get dirty and get dirt, mud and muck drug into it, it’s just going to happen! The best thing you can do is add a good set of floor liners to protect that carpet from the wear and tear of daily use and the dirt that comes with it.

We installed a set of Rugged Ridge’s JL Floor Liners into Malo’s 2018 Sting Gray JLU Rubicon to see how well everything fits and to check out the quality.

Read on and see if the Rugged Ridge JL Floor Liners are a part you need to get.

What we used:

Rugged Ridge JL 4dr Floor Liner Kit

Installing the Rugged Ridge JL Floor Liner kit:

First thing you gotta do is to remove the wimpy stock floor mats. The second thing you need to do is to vacuum up all the dirt and debris. Leaving it in place will trap it there, where it will act like loose sandpaper between the OE carpet and the new floor mats, causing abrasion to your stock carpets. Plus it’s easy to do, so why not?

Slide the new floor liner into place and press down the locks onto the OE nubs sticking up.

Repeat on the driver’s side, pull the floor mat, vacuum it out and then slide the Rugged Ridge Liner into place.

The locking slots in the Rugged Ridge Floor Liners match up to the OE locking nubs perfectly and lock in by pushing down on the round embossed ridge (red circle).

Once locked in place the Rugged Ridge Floor Liner looks sharp and gives you a nice tray to catch all the debris your shoes drag in.

Slide the backseat floor liner into place and snap the locks together. The backseat liner goes all the way across to cover both sides. They come preformed to fit the backseat floor well just perfectly.

If you get a tight lock and it just doesn’t want to snap down in place, use a flat blade screwdriver to carefully push the edges of the lock down and around the pin. Don’t be too aggressive, work the screwdriver around the lock carefully pushing/prying the lock down around the pin. Don’t push so hard that you damage the floor liner.

Vacuum out the cargo area too. No dirt, sand, grit… then no extra abrasion going on between the new liners and the carpet.

With the cargo area cleaned and vacuumed, slide the cargo liner in.

The cargo liner slides in and just sits there. It is shaped on the RH side to go around the OE sub-woofer, if you don’t have one, there will be a slight gap on the RH side towards the front.

And that’s it, another quick and easy mod. Your factory carpet is now much better protected and the dirt, muck and mud your shoes drag in are captured within the raised edges of the Rugged Ridge JL Floor Liners.

Total install time? You are done in about 15 mins or less, depending on how much debris you need to vacuum up.

The verdict? The Rugged Ridge Floor Liners both look good and work good, they fit nice and tight in the floor areas and the locks are nice and tight, keeping the floor liners in place. Being from Rugged Ridge, the price is also just right, coming in just under $200.00 for the full set.

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