Re: HELP (read throught the garbage)

["Naresh H. Singh" <nhs1681@is4.nyu.edu>]

One thing to consider is the weight of the sound deadening material. Sure
your car may be quieter but will it be worth it at the cost of being
slower? Something to consider...

Later,
-Naresh

'95 Jetta GL- Black
"Euro lights sitting in a box edition"

--
"Many are educated, few are learned."



On Thu, 9 Dec 1999 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    
>