Needless to say, where there is bass, there is a rattle. I have a crap load of both mostly in the hatch, so im on a crusade to slay these ***** in order to be able to enjoy my car without being laughed at because of the massive amounts of rattles.

my first ideas of where the rattles are coming from is where the hatch panel meets the actual hatch, my first solution was to wedge paper between which fixed that for the most part.

another rattle spot is in 3 areas actually. which is a very simple fix to deal with. there are 3 covers on your hatch that are held in pretty snug but not after a couple months of bumpage, I took mine out within 2 days of my previous system which only used about 150 rms.


the next trouble ares are inside the hatch where the metal for the hatch meets. there are three points on this which are shown below for this I will use expanding foam to put just enough pressure to keep them from vibrating off of each other

the area im talking about is the lip that meets the glass, there are two pieces of sheet metal sandwhiched together. also if you look inside the hatch in the two holes that give you access to the TBL you will see the other two spots where the metal is attached by expanding foam/glue?


also another spot i have noticed that gives off major rattles is the shield above the exhaust, it rattles with barely any bass and is very annoying


the material im using to deaden my hatch is flashing tape it is pretty much the same as dynamat, hushmat, edead whatever just thinner. its used for sealing windows on houses so check it out I got two rolls of 6x33inch tape for 20 dollars. so its a no brainer there.

for those of that know of any other problem areas as far as rattles go, please post in this thread so we can finally get a definitive thread for those wanting to get rid of these rattles

if pics dont work im sorry, if you want more pics just let me know but for now im late for a car meet so ill post more info once i get back


UPDATE: At the car meet I got to demo the car to some people and listen to it at full tilt, with all the hatch panels removed the rattles are completely gone on the inside. as far as the outside goes, they are still bad but i think some flashing tape inside the bumper cover will do to help with the resonance. I have all the hatch panels in my room so i can work on further deadening them and will post pics up later tonight/morning

 

keep us updated

 

^^ why does one of the pics have the red letters spelling WINDOW? is that factory or something else?

 

that is defiantly not factory, i think it is just whatever edead he is using. Maybe he got a kit that has the stuff laid out?

 

ohhh that's the dynamat material.. got it, thanks. couldn't figure it out

 

The stuff with the red material is flashing tape im using as a sound deadener.

 

what did you do for the heatshield then? put the flashing on top of it..i got major rattles from that piece of crap. also from the wind deflector on the sunroof and even my hood( which is on the the two front corners