Re: HELP (read throught the garbage)

["Billy T." <btylaska@onramp.net>]

BENZ + 40K = quiet
VW + Mexico + 22K = squeaks

I do, however, feel your pain.  My roommate has a 2000 Jetta GLS VR6 that is so
quiet.  And my brother has an M3 that is the same way.  My car, is never gonna be
that way.

b-

VWaffe@aol.com wrote:

> 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