If you want all-weather floor mats for your Model Y, you have many options. These include aftermarket brands like 3W. With a price that’s usually 40-50% less than what Tesla charges, 3W’s liners seem like a great deal. But are they? I’ve been living with them in my Juniper for the last 6 months. Here are my thoughts.
NOTE: 3W provided these products for testing, but all opinions are my own.
What’s Included
If you go with their 10-piece “Pro” floor mat and liner set, it includes:
- Driver’s mat with a metal plate to improve durability and eliminate edge warping
- Front passenger mat
- One-piece second-row floor mat
The front and rear floor mats.
- Three rear seatback liners
- Cargo liner
The rear seatback and main cargo liners.
- Two sub trunk liners
- Frunk liner
The sub trunk and frunk liners.
Price
3W’s 10-piece “Pro” mat and liner set usually costs between $250.00 and $350.00. It was $284.99 at the time of this review. That’s somewhere around 40-50% off Tesla’s OEM mats for a similar set.
What 3W’s Model Y Liners are Made of
Like with most other competing products, including Tesla’s own liners, 3W uses TPE (thermoplastic elastomer). It’s a plastic material that has properties similar to rubber, such as flexibility and grip. Manufacturers also use TPE in products like baby pacifiers.
3W calls their proprietary blend of TPE “Thorex™,” and it also includes their “Vigormold™” technology. Claimed benefits include:
- Non-toxic and eco-friendly, made with at least 50% recycled material.
- Odor-free, even in hot temperatures.
- Easy to clean.
- Very durable, with strong resistance to pressure deformation.
You’ll see how this marketing stands up to my real-world experience below.
First Impressions
The mats and liners are fairly lightweight, certainly lighter than rubber. However, they don’t feel cheap. When I first opened the box, most of the liners were warped. That’s expected, and as 3W states, they will naturally mold themselves once you get them in your Model Y.
Don’t worry if the liners are a bit warped out of the box. They’ll mold to the correct shape in the car.
Odors
In my experience, the liners don’t have much of a smell to them at all. It’s a slight hint of rubber, but it doesn’t permeate the cabin, even with the car sitting outside all day in the sun with the windows rolled up.
Design & Features
Most of the mats and liners have various “Y”-shaped patterns integrated throughout to help them look like they belong. The “3W” logo stands out more on the cabin mats than on some competitors because it’s a contrasting off-white color. I prefer a more stealth look, personally.
I wish the logo was darker, but the “Y” patterns throughout are a nice touch.
Extended Cabin Coverage
Both front mats partially extend under the seat area. This helps catch liquid or debris that might otherwise spread back there. It’s also helpful for storing items, like my large 50 oz water bottle that doesn’t even fit in the door pockets.
Extra under-the-seat protection doubling as a bonus storage area? Sign me up!
Tall Sidewalls
All of the cabin mats offer about 2 inches of vertical coverage all the way around. This helps protect the surrounding body as well.
The approx. 2 inch sidewalls on the cabin floormats are helpful for containing dirt and liquids, too.
Slipperiness
All of the mats and liners provide solid grip for both your feet and cargo. I didn’t have any issues with them shifting during daily use. The traction with my shoes stayed solid, even when it was damp outside.
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Installation & Fit
It doesn’t matter how inexpensive the mats are if they don’t fit right. So here’s the breakdown.
How the Liners Attach
The Juniper Model Y doesn’t have anchor points for floor mats. Instead, 3W uses rows of soft-spike anchors and the shape of the car’s floor to keep them in place.
These small spikes on the cabin floor mats press into the carpet for stability.
The rear seatback liners use a hook-and-loop strip attachment. The hooks come attached to the liners, and the strip sticks to the carpeted material on the back of the rear seats. Trust me, it’s plenty, as the seatback liners stay put.
It doesn’t look like much, but this stuff is strong.
Cabin Floor Mats (First & Second Row)
The cabin mats are easy to install and require little adjustment. Their shape tightly aligns with the floor and surrounding body components. The rear floor mat is a one-piece liner that fills the entire second row, extending all the way to the air vents in the floor. It lies completely flat and stays planted.
All three also have some minor deviations in their sidewalls, where there’s an ever-so-slight gap. For the front mats, this is along the sidewall that covers the entryway.
Driver’s mat sidewall deviation.
The second row has a small space on the left side of the center console bump.
The small gap in the second row liner surrounding the seat rail is inconsequential imo.
Seatback Liners
As mentioned, the three rear seatback liners use a very strong Velcro-like material. Once they grab, they really grab, and you practically have to rip them off to adjust them. That can make the install a little tedious. At the same time, they don’t shift or come loose once they’re on.
The seatback liners provide full coverage up to the vinyl seat trim.
The fit for all three is excellent. They provide full coverage for the backs of the seats.
Main Cargo Liner
The main cargo liner has a good amount of weight to it and is a tight squeeze around the area of the wheel wells, which helps keep it in place. To get the fit right, you have to tuck the end of it into the area below the rear seats.
The cargo liner hugs the wheel wells nicely.
The liner includes a flex point for accessing the rear sub trunk. However, doing so requires lowering the seats and untucking the lip. That may get old if you utilize this space frequently. I assume most people don’t.
Sub Trunk Liners
Despite being somewhat ambiguously shaped, the sub trunk liner closest to the hatch fits quite well. There are very minor sidewall deviations, but I’m not sure it could get much better. It squeezes in there well, and remains fixed when you move things in and out of this area.
This smaller sub trunk liner fits about as well as you can expect given the shape of the space.
The other sub trunk liner goes in the space behind the second row. It sits on top of the area, covering the surrounding trim as well. The design includes a raised portion and patterns to help keep objects from rolling around.
Thanks to the raised shape and ridges, objects will have a difficult time moving if you store them down here.
Frunk Liner
Lastly, the frunk liner sort of just lies in place around the ridges of the compartment. The liner isn’t as snug as the others, but it doesn’t get pulled up or shift around. I do wish the sidewall coverage here covered the entire area, as it gets scratched very easily.
Thanks to the ridges, the frunk liner just lays in place.
Durability
Of course, I can’t speak to years of use at this point. But during my first 6 months with them, I hauled construction materials in the cargo area and on the second-row floor. This includes 200+ pounds of weights, wood, tools, and more.
To date, you can see only minor surface scratches on the cargo and rear seatback liners. I haven’t seen any deep damage, rips, or tears in the material. I’d give it two thumbs up, so far.
After 6 months of carrying around sharp and heavy objects, the cargo liner only has small surface scratches.
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Cleaning the Liners
One of the marketed benefits of 3W’s TPE is that it’s supposed to be easy to clean. So I tested this out. I poured a latte on the driver’s mat and let it sit outside in the sun for a few hours.
Pouring a coffee drink on the mat felt like a good common scenario to test.
When I sprayed the mat with just my water hose, milk residue remained, especially between the raised patterned portions. However, a gentle scrub with some dish soap made it completely clean.
After the sun came out and dried the mat, it didn’t have any coffee/milk residue or smell remaining.
After drying, the mat didn’t retain any of the coffee or milk smells either. I’d say 3W’s claim here is also accurate.
Do I Recommend Them?
I’d recommend this Model Y liner set for its price-to-performance ratio versus the OEM liners, plus its fit and features. From what I can tell so far, 3W’s product claims hold true. I don’t see a reason to pay Tesla double (or more) for essentially the same thing. Based on my experience so far, I’d give the mat set from 3W a 9.0 out of 10.
I’ll continue to update this article as my ownership time grows, and let you know if any concerns pop up.
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3W Model Y Liner FAQ
How Well Do 3W’s Model Y Mats and Liners Fit?
Overall, quite well, with some sidewall deviations here and there. That’s expected, and the same as every competing TPE product like this.
Are 3W’s Model Y Mats Worth It?
Yes. In my experience so far, 3W’s Model Y liners fit well, don’t give off odors, and are durable. They’re about half the cost of Tesla’s official mats.
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