Rat
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I just did a search on "floor mats" and got 17 pages of hits, so pardon me if I don't investigate them all. I don't recall seeing any discussion of the abominable hooks used to secure the floor mats on the driver's side. Every time I get my car washed they unhook the mat to vacuum, which is easy. But they never put the mat back right, which is hard. Those stupid hooks swivel around so easily they almost never line up correctly for the holes in the mat. They should just have a standard system, with two prongs sticking straight up like on the passenger side and on every other car I know of with removable mats. I have to assume that they have these formidable talons for legal/marketing reasons, to make sure the mat cannot scoot forward and wedge under the pedals like the Toyota nightmare, but it's a really, really lousy system. It takes me at least five minutes of squatting, stooping and bending every time to get that damn mat back on, and it doesn't even achieve the purpose of avoiding the wedgies, because the carwash always just lays the mat on top of the hooks, so if I didn't notice or didn't take the time to fix it, the mat could be thrown forward during a sudden stop.