I'm on a mission to make my interior both passenger-friendly and capable of high sound quality out of the sound system. I'll be using Damplifier Pro and Overkill Pro from secondskinaudio.com (I wish I could say I was being sponsored for this) for the bulk of the sound deadening, and I'll be taking some queues from various threads posted here already (some of bluefront's mods, for example).
I'm already nearly done with the driverside door, but I'll get to those later when I finish both doors. For now, here's the hatch already in progress. I started with the spare wheel well with a single layer of vibration dampener (I did finish the left side after this)
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And then cut out a piece of noise barrier to fit. I decided not to glue this piece down as it really didn't seem necessary. It's pretty thick stuff:
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On bumps in the road, I was sometimes getting a clunking sound from the hatch area. I realized when I started this project that it was the jack bouncing around... the foam helped significantly in the department, so I shored up one other little annoying sound I'd sometimes hear: the arm of the jack hitting the jack itself. Some superglue got this foam piece in place for good:
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So now we continue with the rest of the hatch...
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This is where I left off for now... lots more to come, including how to deaden your doors while looking OEM and maintaining access to the door interior (in case of broken window motors and whatnot).
I'm already nearly done with the driverside door, but I'll get to those later when I finish both doors. For now, here's the hatch already in progress. I started with the spare wheel well with a single layer of vibration dampener (I did finish the left side after this)
And then cut out a piece of noise barrier to fit. I decided not to glue this piece down as it really didn't seem necessary. It's pretty thick stuff:
On bumps in the road, I was sometimes getting a clunking sound from the hatch area. I realized when I started this project that it was the jack bouncing around... the foam helped significantly in the department, so I shored up one other little annoying sound I'd sometimes hear: the arm of the jack hitting the jack itself. Some superglue got this foam piece in place for good:
So now we continue with the rest of the hatch...
This is where I left off for now... lots more to come, including how to deaden your doors while looking OEM and maintaining access to the door interior (in case of broken window motors and whatnot).
