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Apr 15, 2002 | 12:37 AM

BLUTHUNDER

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To DynaMat or not DynaMat ??

I recently had a 1200 Watt stereo system installed in my C5 and decided to pass on paying an additional $500 to have my Doors and Trunk lid applied with DYNAMAT.

The system sounds great , but i'm getting an occasional vibration out of the passenger door.. My installer told me that the dynamat would take care of this..So i am going to proceed with having the DYNAMAT installed in the doors..But do i really need the trunk lid done also ??

Do most of you have your doors and trunk Dynamatted ??

Thanks

Jeff

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Apr 15, 2002 | 02:41 AM

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Re: To DynaMat or not DynaMat ?? (BLUTHUNDER)

I manage a Good Guys install shop and highly recomend doing the whole car . I pulled my interior out , front carpet rear carpet and all panels in the car . The whole car is much more quiet even at wide open throttle . I would recomend using dynamat extreme , it is the silver foil stuff , it holds better and molds better than the regular . $500 sounds very steep though . I recently charges $ 200 to do a whole Z06 door panels and complete interior of course I did it while doing the mobile video and nav system so the car was apart already . Good luck Tony :cheers:

Apr 15, 2002 | 08:43 AM

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Re: To DynaMat or not DynaMat ?? (blue98coupe)

Hi blue98coupe,
Can you tell me how much dynamat extreme I would need to cover the interior of the car (doors, floor, and trunk)?
How effective is this product?
I need to kill some XR-1 resonance in the cabin... would Dynamat help?
Thanks in advance,
Danny
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Apr 15, 2002 | 11:38 AM

Mike Mercury

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Re: To DynaMat or not DynaMat ?? (TWC5)

there is another company making dynomat "type" products, called Cascade. Their products are supposed to be just as good (some say better) and cost less.

Apr 15, 2002 | 11:55 AM

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Re: To DynaMat or not DynaMat ?? (Mike Mercury)

There is a shop by me (ABT) that has a top notch install dept (won awards,magazine articles,etc) and they recommend Cascade over Dynamat for various reasons. I spent 2 hours talking with them before I dumped a load of $$ on having my car completely done (next week!) in material and a sound system put in.

Apr 15, 2002 | 02:19 PM

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Re: To DynaMat or not DynaMat ?? (BLUTHUNDER)

$250 sounds a bit stiff for just the doors and deck lid. You can buy enough Xtreme to do your entire car interior for that. I really don't think that just doing doors and deck will solve your problem. As others have pointed out, by doing the whole car it will kill much of the road noise thus making the sound system far better.

Apr 15, 2002 | 02:57 PM

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Re: To DynaMat or not DynaMat ?? (Mike Mercury)

Quote:

there is another company making dynomat "type" products, called Cascade. ...

I used 2 sheets of the VB-2 in my trunk for about $140. You would want more for doors, etc. It really cuts the exhaust and tire noise.

http://www.cascadeaudio.com/prod/dampers.html

It is self-adhesive with a peel-off backing. You apply it and then use a hot air gun on it to make if conform to panels and it sticks.

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