RE: HELP (read throught the garbage)

["Ng, Kevin (Bank of America Commercial Finance)" <kevin.ng@bankofamericacf.com>]

Tires contribute to much of road noise. Why don't you try "upgrading" to a
set of Sears touring tires? :) Seriously, go to Tirerack.com and do
comparisons on road noise. You might want to consider switching to
205/55-15's to absorb bumps better.

Kevin Ng
97 GLX Windsor Blue

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	VWaffe@aol.com [SMTP:VWaffe@aol.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, December 09, 1999 12:19 PM
> To:	jettaglx@igtc.com
> Subject:	HELP (read throught the garbage)
> 
> All, a girl-friend of mine (in the JAG corps) owns a CLK320 (uh, sweet),
> and
> it's a very quiet car (but fast as ours). Within a year and a half, I hope
> to
> be buying a 528 or 540 (depending), which will also be quiet, refined, and
> sporty (but at least it'll have a manual tranny), but for now her CLK's
> caused a problem for me:
> 
> I want my GLX to be quiet, too. I have done some rather tedious work to
> stop
> the various squeaks and creaks of trim panels, and -with the exception of
> the
> persistent rear 'hat rack' rattle- have been very successful. Now I want
> to
> kill the road noise. I have several questions:
> 1) Does anyone else have a VERY loud and piercing wind-whistle at the top
> of
> the windshield? Any remedies?
> 2) Has anyone done the Dynamat thing to their cars? Polyfill? Spray-on
> sound
> killing stuff?
> The places I want to work on over the holidays are the doors and (maybe)
> the
> roof (if I can remove the headliner). Then eventually I'll get under the
> carpet and do the floor to kill tire noise. But for now I'd be content to
> kill just the sound of the wind and the obnoxious roar of the
> shorty-equipped
> 350 that just passed me, or the coffee-can-exhaust fart sound of the Honda
> I
> just left in the dust. Any advice? Words of wisdom? PLEASE HELP...
> 
> DJ