Thread: Sound proofing

For me the most annoying noise complaint is wind noise on my 2012 110 wagon. I think it's just about impossible to stop it, i have heavily insulated my roof with dynamat and eva foam, with minimal results. Unless someone comes up with a great way to seal between the windows and door frames, and door frames to body. The engine noise is actually bearable from the 2.2.

Cheers

Noise-cancelling headphones?

Our County is a V8. Don't mind the sound so much

I actually thought about that, well the technology anyway.

I just fitted the Dynamat from the front of the seat boxes back in my 90 and we noticed a big difference, the plan now is to do the firewall and foot wells next

Garry

I have used a dynamat type product (Stinger Roadkill) all through the back of my 90 and the entire roof. Also in the roof I used Formshield 10mm. It made a huge difference and I now don't hear the wind noise from my Hannibal roof rack.

I had the whole dash out a few weeks ago chasing a rattle which turned out to be the wiper mechanism (worm drive) rattling inside the metal tube (rack). I stripped the whole lot down and gave it a good greasing and reinstalled. I then used a closed cell foam pipe lagging and cable tied it to the outside of the wiper rack. Now I just barely hear the wiper mechanism when stationary, when driving I don't hear it at all. Well worth the weekends work to have quiet

While everything was out, as to get the dash out you need to remove the plastic transmission tunnel and the rubber matting. while it was all out I put some Stinger on either side of the forward part (metal) of the transmission tunnel, just this alone has made another huge difference to the sound coming up from that area.

So all in all I have had a very positive result from using soundproofing in my little deefa.

Mick

Hi I used dyna mat on my 110. Made a difference. I also applied a noise/rust product to the wheel arches. Now a stone flicks up the passengers don't have a heart attack.
If only I could find a quiter windscreen wiper motor.
Cheers
Tony

Originally Posted by tonyci

Hi I used dyna mat on my 110. Made a difference. I also applied a noise/rust product to the wheel arches. Now a stone flicks up the passengers don't have a heart attack.
If only I could find a quiter windscreen wiper motor.
Cheers
Tony

Tony, read my post above it was worth the effort. The noise will be coming from the rack more so than the motor.

Thanks Cracka
I will have a look. I have had a few 110 ,s and very one has had a very noisy wiper motor. I don't think anything is wrong it is just loud. But the lagging sounds the way to go.
Cheers
Tony