Protecting
your investment!
Do you ever carry muddy boots in the back of your car? Or garden refuse?
Or wet, sandy towels after a visit to the beach? Or carry large items back
from the DIY or garden centre? Or do you have a dog? Or do you have
an MPV and want to protect all the carpets? If the answer to any of these
and numerous similar questions is "Yes" then you are a particularly good prospect
for a Carbox boot liner!
"Why should
I buy a car boot liner?"
If
you haven't thought much about the benefits of buying a car specific liner
for your car - and why should you, they aren't the most scintillating of products!
- this section is for you. We reckon there are three main reasons for investing
in car boot protection:
PICCOLO Anti-slip
Dashboard Mat. A perfect way of keeping your
car tidy!
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HERE or
on any image on this page, to obtain availability and price details.


- Protecting your vehicle's carpets
(and, with High liners, the expensive side panels) will make a considerable
difference to its resale value.
- You'll save a lot of clearing up,
which is unnecessary time and hassle - perhaps earth from the garden centre,
or sand from the beach, or mud from the dogs, or whatever revolting chemical
might leak out of its cheaply made container on the way home from the supermarket
or DIY shop. Carbox liners have 'a rim around the edge' so that whatever
spills on the liner stays on the liner, and they're car specific so there
are no gaps.
- You'll have the confidence to make
the best use of your car, in the same way as you'll do grubby jobs much
more cheerfully and efficiently when you're appropriately dressed. If you've
got a boot liner in place, who cares about spilt sand, earth, compost, DIY
stuff, wet clothes, soggy camping gear, muddy dogs, muddy golf bags, muddy
bike wheels? Family MPVs in particular can take a beating; how often do
grot and sticky drinks get trodden into the carpet on the way back from
school, or on holiday? Yuk! Drinks holders are a great idea but they open
up a whole new set of problems!
"This
makes sense, but what's so special about Carbox?"
JV Carbox (based near Bremen in Germany) invented the concept
of the car specific boot liner in 1960, and have remained at the leading edge
of this market. All their products are quality certified to ISO 9001. They
also manufacture boot liners as Original Equipment for many car manufacturers,
including Audi, BMW, Citroen, Daewoo, Fiat, Nissan, Suzuki and Volkswagen.
Please note however that most car manufacturers source accessories
from different manufacturers in different countries, so e.g. you may find
that a dealer-supplied liner for one of the brands listed above is of significantly
lower quality than a Carbox product supplied in a different country.
Remember...
Available for most brands, including...
Audi
BMW
Citroen
Chrysler
Daewoo
Daihatsu
Fiat
Ford
Honda
Hyundai
Isuzu
Kia
Land Rover
Mazda
MCC Smart
Mercedes
Mitsubishi
Nissan
Opel
Peugeot
Renault
Saab
Seat
Skoda
Suzuki
Subaru
Toyota
Vauxhall
Volkswagen
Volvo
The
product range
There are several categories of Carbox products available
for a
range of cars, MPVs, 4x4s, vans
and pick-ups. For more detailed information please see our
Product Range page.
BOOT LINERS: Short high
BOOT MATS: Short low / Long low
BACK OF SEAT LINERS
MPV MATS: inc. new XXL mat
ANTI-SLIP MATS
VAN LINERS
PICK-UP LINERS
PICCOLO: Dashboard mat
- Liners and mats are designed for
specific vehicles so they are always a perfect fit.
There are well over 1,000 different liners in the range.
- They are made with a "rim
around the edge" to ensure that whatever is on the liner stays there.
The Low liners have a 5cm rim, the High liners up to 47cm!
- They are created from flexible,
durable, waterproof, recyclable plastics. Carbox products are made
from polypropylene and high density polyethylene co-polymers, especially
developed for them by Hoechst, the German chemicals giant. They are sufficiently
rigid yet are also shock proof, odourless, safe for
food use, oil resistant (to e.g. petrol, diesel) and fully recyclable.
They are resistant to hard impact and sharp edges,
and don't deteriorate with use, or crack, or whiten as ABS plastic
products tend to do when knocked.




GOOD
REASONS
TO
BUY
A
CARBOX
Enhance
the resale
value of
your
vehicle by
protecting
the carpets
and side
panels of
your boot!
Minimise
the time
taken to
clear up!
Have
confidence
to make the
best use of
your car for
dirty jobs
you'd
otherwise
put off or
avoid!
Oil and acid
resistant.
Fully
recyclable!
"Unobtrusive
products which do a valuable job and won't detract from the looks of your
car."
Please order in the confidence that if you aren't entirely
satisfied with the product you just need to contact us and we'll arrange for
its collection, picking up the return carriage costs and refunding you in
full. (We only ask that the product must be unused or, if tested, unmarked
such that it's "as good as new".)
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top of the page.
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here, or on any image on this page, to obtain availability and price details.
Do
you need a boot liner?
"OK,
I'm convinced, but I don't need to spend this kind of money! I'll go down the
car accessory shop and buy a universal boot liner."
- Universal liners are only "universal"
in that they help the stockist keep stock levels to the minimum; they don't
do the consumer any favours. You need to cut them to fit - a trial and error
job - and then by definition they won't fit your next car (unless the boot
is smaller in every dimension).
- More importantly, universal
liners don't have a rim around the edge. Without the rim, and with
the benefit of all those cutting lines, they channel spilt liquids very
effectively to the edge of the liner and over the side. That's not
the point!
- Most of them are made of rubber;
they usually smell worse in hot weather. Carbox products are odourless
Carbox
liners also stay firmly in place even under the most energetic driving conditions.
There's enough dimensional stability and friction in the plastic to stop even
the low liners moving under braking or violent sideways motion. Again, this
isn't the story with several competitor products we've tested. The one criticism
we do have of Carbox products is that the surface of their High liners is quite
slippy, so here it makes sense to use an Anti-Slip Mat - see Product
Range for details.
You'll
find that most of our low liners cost about £10 more than most 'universal'
low liners, but here's how we justify it:
Audi A3
BMW 5 series
BMW X3
Citroen C8
Daewoo Nubira
Fiat Ulysse
Ford Focus C-Max
Ford Fusion
Honda Accord Tourer
Kia Carens II
Mazda 3
Mercedes E class
Mitsubishi Outlander
Nissan Micra
Peugeot 307CC
Peugeot 807
Renault Megane
Subaru Legacy Estate
Subaru Outback
Toyota Avensis
Toyota Landcruiser
Toyota Prius
Vauxhall Meriva
Vauxhall Signum
Vauxhall Vectra
Volvo S40
Volvo XC90
VW Golf mk5
VW Touareg
VW Touran
The 2004 Carbox range is available now for all the vehicles
shown to the right and the Megane and Vectra below.
The new XXL MPV Mat for the Ford Galaxy /
Seat Alhambra / VW Sharan is available now.
Click here for more information.
All text and images
on this site, with the exception of some images supplied by manufacturers,
are
© John Jordan Limited,
Unit 1A Toll Bar Estate, Sedbergh, Cumbria, LA10 5HA.
Tel: 08700 766326 Fax: 015396 21886
Do
you need a boot liner?
Carbox
mats are available in grey, black or tan.
"There
are three main reasons for investing in car boot protection"
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