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Old 07-21-2009, 12:16 AM   #53 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by PiKAniu View Post

for the doors, i have two thoughts on this.
1. you can put this padding on differnt parts of the panel itself to lower the know, but i know you cant put it on all of it because the panel wont fit right on the door.
2. why can you put spray some of the adhesvie on the metal part of the door on the other side of hte window against the outside part of hte door, then attach the cushion to it, then put rubber material all over it to protect it from mold/water. wouldnt that work?

other then the doors you should havent to worry about water anywhere.
Could you clarify a little bit please? I couldn't understand a few things =/.

Well, I ordered 1.5 rolls of RaamMat off their site. I believe that's 90 square feet. I did my whole trunk, 4 doors, rear deck of my sedan, under the rear bench seat & rear wheel wells, and in small 1''x2'' rectangles in many places in the plastic door panels and in the rear deck.
I have a lot of RaamMat left. I used about 1 and 1/3 rolls of Raam in this install.

I would have done the floors, but don't really have the stones to remove the front seats yet, plus the B-pillar trim. Doing the floors would be awesome, I think.
Oh yeah, in the doors, I applied everything to the bare sheet metal. If I get dents, I'm more or less screwed, but hey.

I also bought 5 yards of Ensolite foam from RaamAudio and used spray adhesive to apply the foam on top of all the RaamMat. Did 2-3 layers of the Ensolite foam.

Then I also cut out three strips of Neoprene padding foam, folded it thrice, then wedged it along the rear deck where it touches the glass. That was the single greatest improvement to my bass rattling problems.
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Looking back on it...for the doors floors, and under rear seat and rear wheelwells, I would have done the RaamMat just the same, but instead of adding Ensolite foam, I would have insteadused a roll of some MLV Mass Loaded Vinyl. The goal with MLV for me would be to reduce road noise and all that stuff. The Ensolite foam isn't quite dense enough to make much of a difference. I assume spray adhesive would work to secure the MLV on top of the RaamMat.
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