Video Transcript for Fit Check: Testing WeatherTech Front Auto Floor Mats on a 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek

Today on our 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek, we're going to take a look at the WeatherTech Custom Auto Floor Liners. As you can see, we've got a 2-piece design here in black. The part number is WT444391. These are also going to be available in gray. That part number is WT464391. As you can see, we've got our driver's side and our passenger side mat here. They're custom fit to fit the exact contours of our floor. They've got a high density, tri-extruded material that they're made of that gives us a nice rigid core, but it's going to remain flexible no matter the temperature. We're not going to have to worry about breaks and cracks. At the same time, they line the upper portion of our mat with a nice rubberized material that's going to help give us the grip we need when it's muddy, snowy, rainy, stuff like that, so we're not slipping around on our mat. Same thing goes here for the rear.

That rubberized material is going to help hold our mat in place, and it's going to keep it from shifting around. Also, any vehicle that's going to have the factor anchor points, WeatherTech has thought ahead, and they've got those designed right on. They make nice channels here. These are going to divert the fluid down and away from where our feet are going to sit. It goes down into the lower reservoir area here. The ribs that we see here, that keeps the moisture from moving side to side. We don't have to worry about it sloshing around.

This area is going to help keep our feet out of that muck and that mess. The waterproof, weatherproof material is very easy to clean. Simply wipe it down with a damp cloth if it's minor. If it's something that's more serious, pull it out, hit it with a hose and let it dry and put it back in your vehicle. Let me show you how these are going to fit into your Crosstrek. Just put them here to hold them for now. Come on in and look at the driver's side door. I'll go around here to the passenger side to get it taken care of. First things first, we want to remove our factory mat.

As you can see, the mat does a good job covering the floor, but what we really lack is this side protection. If we can keep everything on our mat, great; but we're going to run into issues where in the Midwest here, we get a lot of snow and ice and salt. That stuff is going to go over. It's going to get onto the floor of our car. Our customer wants some ultimate protection. That's what we get with the WeatherTech mats. Once we have that factory mat removed, we're just going to slide our WeatherTech up into place. These are custom fit mats.

They're designed to fit this vehicle so you're not going to have any issues. As you can see, we've got our two factory anchor points. We just simply press those right down and in. Deigned to fully match all the contours of our vehicle. Our fuel door release is exposed right here, so we're not going to have to worry about tilting up the mat. It's got a raised edge that goes all the way around. Helps to keep that dirt and debris on our mat. It extends well up underneath our pedals, and even up onto our foot rest here on the side, to keep anything from running down in that area. Let's move over here to the passenger side. The same thing happens here. Our factory mat comes out. New WeatherTech slides right in. It shares the same features we've got over there on the driver's side. Raised edge all the way around. Channels to divert the fluid. Maximum protection well up underneath our dash there. WeatherTechs are made completely in the United States, offered in two colors for this particular application. Now that we've taken a close look at how the WeatherTech Auto Floor Liners are going to fit into our vehicle, that's going to complete today's test fit. The part number that we used was WT444391, and that's on our 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek. .