Hi,

Just looking into putting some sound deadening into the Fabia's doors to try and reduce road noise and increase speaker quality.

Having never taken any part of a car off before im totally new to all of this.

I was thinking of buying the Dynamat: BULK Kit Sound Deadening. Woud this be the right stuff?

I've also read somewhere that some foam can be put inside of the door. Is this correct?

How easy is this to do?

Many thanks,

Dan.

Just remove the engine and stick a petrol in there. Job done

petrol makes sspeakers better?!

To get it apart is easy, and I can't see sticking the sound proofing on being hard. Think there's guide somewhere to removing the door card.

I'm going to be doing the same to mine after my exams in a few weeks. I'll probably take a few pics and try do a guide of sorts for the simple like myself, though as said there are many guides around for various bits of the process.

If you're serious about audio quality a good HU/Speaker combo is probably going to do you a lot better than adding deadening, though you really could do with all 3!

http://www.caraudioc...7321_page-2.htm

Is the stuff I'm looking to use, heard it's as good as the Dynamat and cheaper.

Also possibly getting some foam around the wires to stop any rattling and potentially some foam blocks to go inside the door (between the inner and outer panels) to dampen reverberation in there.

I've replaced speakers on cars and it's never all that hard to get panels off/on, and sticking the stuff on can't be that hard, just make sure its tidy and well stuck on i should imagine, I'm currently gathering online resources to help me out.

http://www.briskoda....ng-in-my-fabia/

Here's a little thing off Briskoda. I'm probably not going to take the whole inside panel off and deaden the outside as he has done, rather just the silver panel on the inside. The way I see it, the deadening should work to increase the mass of the panel the speaker is attached to, and make it resonate less with the speaker. So more of the energy from the speaker is used by the speaker rather than to move the entire doorpanel.

That's my theory anyway. (Also I can't be arsed taking the whole bloody thing off )

Edited 17 April, 201214 yr by holmes321

Thats a really good post with the pics thanks.

Yeah, wont be taking the metal sheet off either.

Have you seen this offer,

http://caraudiosecurity.com/shop/product/products_id/7241.html

Its dynamat and cheaper than the in phase stuff.

Any ideas how much space there is between the door card and the metal door?

Thinking of dynaliner foam on the card and dynamat on the metal plate. Read somewhere today that you should use both an absorber and something like dynamat.

Edited 17 April, 201214 yr by dany2010

I'm going to be doing the same to mine after my exams in a few weeks. I'll probably take a few pics and try do a guide of sorts for the simple like myself, though as said there are many guides around for various bits of the process.

look forward to following this mate if you manage to do it...have some plans for doing mine too at some point

Have you seen this offer,

http://caraudiosecur...ts_id/7241.html

Its dynamat and cheaper than the in phase stuff.

Sorry for the late reply!

That looks decent, although there's a lot of it by the looks of it, and it's pretty heavy duty stuff (not that that's necessarily a bad thing of course!).

As for the space between door card and metal door, I'm unsure exactly as I haven't taken the card off on my fabia before, but from reading I'm pretty sure you can fit about 36mm of spacer in for your speakers, but I don't know if that's uniform across the whole panel.

As with all acoustic applications, more is almost always better so a bit of foam on the card and stuffed in the gap between the inner and outer door (through the speaker hole perhaps if you're taking them out) potentially could be very useful (as long as you do it correctly, it will definitely do no harm at least and it will stop any rattles from wires etc). It depends how far you want to take it (and how much you want to spend!) I suppose.

But the way I see it (at least with my fabia's stock speakers currently) My biggest problem is that my doors are just wobbling all over the place with any bass from the cones, and probably somewhat amplifying the road noise also. Foam absorption tends to be much more for mid/high frequencies, which I see as much less of a problem in most car applications (especially with the bloody rear tweeters right in your ears )

Edited 24 April, 201214 yr by holmes321