Fatmat tar smell?
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Fatmat tar smell?
I just got a shipment of Fatmat 100 sq ft in. Opening the box and it smells like a road being resurfaced with ashphalt. Is my car going to smell if I install this stuff?
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I heard others say that it has a tar smell when installed.
They pitch the FatMat product as the same as DynaMat Extreme at a much lower cost - but DME does NOT have a tar smell - the Original DynaMat did.
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They pitch the FatMat product as the same as DynaMat Extreme at a much lower cost - but DME does NOT have a tar smell - the Original DynaMat did.
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Check out the posts by MikeMercury, who has done quite a bit of research on heat/deadening solutions. If I remember correctly he talks about the "smell" issue. The tar smell was a commor problem with the early Dynamat materials.
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yep; the Dynomat Xtreme product uses no petroleum based material. Neither does Damplifier offerings either.
Damplifier Pro is very dense and is good to 500 degrees
http://www.secondskinaudio.com/produ...hp?productid=2
Damplifier Pro is very dense and is good to 500 degrees
http://www.secondskinaudio.com/produ...hp?productid=2
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Originally Posted by Mike Mercury
yep; the Dynomat Xtreme product uses no petroleum based material. Neither does Damplifier offerings either.
Damplifier Pro is very dense and is good to 500 degrees
http://www.secondskinaudio.com/produ...hp?productid=2
Damplifier Pro is very dense and is good to 500 degrees
http://www.secondskinaudio.com/produ...hp?productid=2
I have this bad feeling that if I install Fatmat I'll be driving down I-5 mid summer, 105 in the shade, and I will be smelling ashphalt for 200 miles.
