Not to beat a dead horse once again but I think I got some decent results on wifey's new car, an 09 V6 Coupe w/Navi,white.
This car is the first new car we have had in decades,(raising and educating 3 boys with house payments puts a crimp in the new car department). Loved the looks and the way it drove but we did not test drive on anything but nicer, smoother, newer roads. After purchasing we discovered the thing was absolutely awful with road noise on less than stellar roads.
Here in west Texas all our roads are asphalt and every few years the do what is called "seal coating" in order to extent the life of the roads. Seal coating consists of putting down a nice thick layer of hot tar and laying a fresh coat of gravel, level and compact. It creates a very porous surface that makes a coupe howl like a drum, driving this old man crazy.
The first thing I did was put a clear bra kit on the front and make the standard homemade Home Depot lower grill.
Then, last weekend I attacked the road noise problem and think I achieved some success. Here is what I did:
1. Sprayed 1 gallon of a product Quiet Car under the seat pans and inner front fender wells.
2. Ripped out her trunk, rear seat, and front seats. (she just about died seeing her new baby tore all apart!)
3. Applied 1/4" neoprene foam on the inner trunk side liners both sides and bottoms of these liners. As well, applied it to the bottom of the spare tire cover, all of it.
4. Applied to inner trunk lid under the cover.
5. Removed rear seat side covers and applied foam to outer fender panels as well as the inner of the plastic panels themselves.
6. Applied misc. shaped pieces under the rear seat.
7. Applied double layer to door outer panels and misc areas of inner plastic panel as well as covered the two huge holes in the door inner sheet metal.
Results: On my seal coated test road the DB ratings at 70 MPH dropped from 75 to 68. On the nice, recently repaved interstate it is deathly quiet. And my #3 son said he noticed right away on start up the difference because he hardly knew the engine was running. The stereo sounds so much better and the doors go "thunk" when we close them. A conversation is conducted at real normal levels and the broad (no offense to you gals out there) on the Navi understands me now.
In addition I installed the sheepskin seat covers when I had the seats out during this process. That light tan color was awful to keep clean and it is hotter than hell here in the summer making me sweat just as bad as if it was vinyl, in time it would ruin the leather. Oh boy, do the sheep skins feel good too, improving the rather firm Honda seats.
No, I don't have pics, this ole guy is still trying to figure out how to use his Cannon 35mm SLR. So me with digital pics??? Haha.
Total cost: About $225 for the sound deadening, maybe another 25 for trim tools, spray glue and carpet tape. I used the spray glue sparringly cause wifey does not like the stink and the carpet tape works great, just make sure it is positioned correctly the first time. I bought 6 sheets of 1/4" neoprene off Ebay and had just enough, barely.
If I had it to do over I would have put more in the front section of the rear quarters. I was concerned about having enough and was a little too conservative.
Enough for this long a$$ed thread.
PS-If I can talk the wifey into some Bridgestone Serenity's we will have a really, really nice quiet coupe. But I have a feeling we will have these damn Pilots for awhile. She bought the car on June 2nd and has a whole 1500 miles on it.
This car is the first new car we have had in decades,(raising and educating 3 boys with house payments puts a crimp in the new car department). Loved the looks and the way it drove but we did not test drive on anything but nicer, smoother, newer roads. After purchasing we discovered the thing was absolutely awful with road noise on less than stellar roads.
Here in west Texas all our roads are asphalt and every few years the do what is called "seal coating" in order to extent the life of the roads. Seal coating consists of putting down a nice thick layer of hot tar and laying a fresh coat of gravel, level and compact. It creates a very porous surface that makes a coupe howl like a drum, driving this old man crazy.
The first thing I did was put a clear bra kit on the front and make the standard homemade Home Depot lower grill.
Then, last weekend I attacked the road noise problem and think I achieved some success. Here is what I did:
1. Sprayed 1 gallon of a product Quiet Car under the seat pans and inner front fender wells.
2. Ripped out her trunk, rear seat, and front seats. (she just about died seeing her new baby tore all apart!)
3. Applied 1/4" neoprene foam on the inner trunk side liners both sides and bottoms of these liners. As well, applied it to the bottom of the spare tire cover, all of it.
4. Applied to inner trunk lid under the cover.
5. Removed rear seat side covers and applied foam to outer fender panels as well as the inner of the plastic panels themselves.
6. Applied misc. shaped pieces under the rear seat.
7. Applied double layer to door outer panels and misc areas of inner plastic panel as well as covered the two huge holes in the door inner sheet metal.
Results: On my seal coated test road the DB ratings at 70 MPH dropped from 75 to 68. On the nice, recently repaved interstate it is deathly quiet. And my #3 son said he noticed right away on start up the difference because he hardly knew the engine was running. The stereo sounds so much better and the doors go "thunk" when we close them. A conversation is conducted at real normal levels and the broad (no offense to you gals out there) on the Navi understands me now.
In addition I installed the sheepskin seat covers when I had the seats out during this process. That light tan color was awful to keep clean and it is hotter than hell here in the summer making me sweat just as bad as if it was vinyl, in time it would ruin the leather. Oh boy, do the sheep skins feel good too, improving the rather firm Honda seats.
No, I don't have pics, this ole guy is still trying to figure out how to use his Cannon 35mm SLR. So me with digital pics??? Haha.
Total cost: About $225 for the sound deadening, maybe another 25 for trim tools, spray glue and carpet tape. I used the spray glue sparringly cause wifey does not like the stink and the carpet tape works great, just make sure it is positioned correctly the first time. I bought 6 sheets of 1/4" neoprene off Ebay and had just enough, barely.
If I had it to do over I would have put more in the front section of the rear quarters. I was concerned about having enough and was a little too conservative.
Enough for this long a$$ed thread.
PS-If I can talk the wifey into some Bridgestone Serenity's we will have a really, really nice quiet coupe. But I have a feeling we will have these damn Pilots for awhile. She bought the car on June 2nd and has a whole 1500 miles on it.
