Please do update when you have them. I am hopefully picking up my Niro end of the month and will no doubt have the dealer try and charge me £120 for the mats

 

You shouldn't have to pay more than the £59.99 I paid for the set of 4. Been dispatched, so on their way.

 

I gave up on the Kia ones and bought some off carmats.co.uk for £35. Pretty happy with them - and went for the colour trim that matched the car

 

I also bought the rubber ones from carmats.co.uk, for £34.99. They were delivered quickly, and they had the correct plastic clips/holes to fix them to the floor on the driver’s side. For £34.99, I really can’t complain. If I compare them to the BMW original ones which I had on my old BMW, I’d say that these ones look a bit utilitarian. My old BMW ones had a kind of deep tread, so that any water would sit in the mats rather than rolling off. My BMW mats also had a matt finish. The ones from carmats.co.uk are a bit shiny, so your shoes slide around and squeek a bit. But my BMW mats cost me £116, and that was 6 years ago, whereas these ones only cost me £34.99. My biggest issue with these ones from carmats.co.uk is that at the moment they give off a really pungent rubbery/oily smell which is quite unpleasant, so I hope it doesn’t take too long for that smell to disappear!

I am attaching a couple of photos of mine from carmats.co.uk.

 

I’ve just had the genuine Kia mats delivered. They look great.

 

OK I have recieveded my official Kia Rubber Mats - and co-incidently received CarMats.co.uk mats at the same time, which had got lost in the post over Christmas. So have had a unique chance to compare the Mats.
See my photos

• CarMats and Kia Mats are the same pattern in front
• Rear Mats - Carmats is one peice and deeper into footwell, Kia's is 2 pieces but cover the whole floor (see photos)
• CarMats stink of rubber - industrial rubber, shiny and look like cut up rubber flooring.
• Kia Mats look great, don't smell and are much thicker and better quality.

Kia Rear Mats on top of the CarMats version - not they are not as deep under the seat

 

Needless to say I am keeping the Genuine Kia Mats and sending the CarMats ones back - for less than £20 more they are in a different class.
(unless anyone on here wants to buy them?)

 

Needless to say I am keeping the Genuine Kia Mats and sending the CarMats ones back - for less than £20 more they are in a different class.
(unless anyone on here wants to buy them?)

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I have followed @Woodenbelly ’s lead. After having already paid £34.99 for all-weather mats from Carmats, I got fed up of the terrible rubber smell and cheap look, and I ordered the genuine Kia ones from the same Kia garage eBay account which Woodenbelly used. The delivery was quick. The Kia ones are indeed in a different class. Had I known that they were only £22 more than the Carmats ones, I would never have bought the Carmats ones. The only downside I have noticed, like Woodenbelly, is that the rear mats don’t go as far under the front seats as the Carmats ones do, which is a bit strange. But other than that, they look a lot more at home in a £40K car than the Carmats ones do.

 

The official Kia ones do indeed look much nicer. Where did you buy them from?

 

I bought mine here for £59.99 free postage:
EMG Kia Motor Group on eBay

 

Dumb question incoming from me so please be kind.

What is the main reason for people buying the rubber mats? Is it because they are easier to clean than the ones that come with the car? Or are there other benefits I'm not considering.

 

Dumb question incoming from me so please be kind.

What is the main reason for people buying the rubber mats? Is it because they are easier to clean than the ones that come with the car? Or are there other benefits I'm not considering.

Most of us did not get any mats with the car!
Why Rubber? I live in the country

 

Mine is being supplied with rubber mats and boot liner FOC.

My Ceed wasn't supplied with any mats and I bought genuine KIA carpet ones, which after 50K miles are absolutely threadbare.

 

My local Lidl's got 'rubber' boot mats at £6.99. Bought one for my EV4 to stop things slipping about.
Depth: perfect, width: needs a bit of a trim - easy with scissors. Not very thick but does the business.

 

For boot mats, I bought one of these Sakura boot mats 6 years ago for my old car. It wasn’t quite long enough for my old car, but it’s a perfect fit for my Niro EV. It’s flexible, and you cut it to size. It’s still available from Amazon, for just £8.90. See Amazon.co.uk

 

For boot mats, I bought one of these Sakura boot mats 6 years ago for my old car. It wasn’t quite long enough for my old car, but it’s a perfect fit for my Niro EV. It’s flexible, and you cut it to size. It’s still available from Amazon, for just £8.90. See Amazon.co.uk

@Mark-Surrey Thank you, purchased one and just installed it today.

 

I bought them from the ebay link yesterday. Thanks for the photos and heads up

 

Whilst on the subject of mats, anyone got a solution to protecting the area at the rear between the load space rubber mat and the rear bumper? I checked at the dealership, they only had an EV6 but there was some sort of flap available on that car. I did ask for the protector foils at the rear but those got forgotten on the order.

 

I was sure I have seen one of those flaps in the Accessories catalogue on Kia UK - but not there any more (or I saw it for a different model/region). It was just and extra flap that covered the bumper.

 

Ah, that was the part number shown for the EV6. May be it is the same for the EV?

 

It is shown only on one of the 4 Niro accessories pages. There's one for generic Niro, one for Niro EV, one for HEV, and one for PHEV.
I found it on the generic one, which is the first one shown on the Kia UK accessories page.

 

Are those rubber mats the newer ones for the Niro?
In the Niro EV, the new non-rubber mats are a single piece in the back as there is no bump in the floor. I don't see any reason why the rubber ones wouldn't also be a single piece.
To me, these look like the 'wrong' mats for the newer Niro interior. But I am probably wrong.

 

They are supposed to be for the new Niro EV. They came as a set with the front mats, and those front mats are a perfect fit.

 

All I can say is that my own mats are 3 pieces not 4.
2 for the front, and 1 for the back.
Earlier in this thread, there are pictures of the carmats rubber mats which are also 3 pieces not 4, and which fit 'better' with regards to larger and more under the front seat area.
It looks like Kia has tried to re-use something and not create a proper set for the new Niro. It should be much more like the carmats set, in 3 pieces, but of Kia quality.