too many pics

 

You can never have too many pics!! I just started to sound deaden my xB. Thanks for the writeup!

Now that i think about it...i actually started with a part that wasnt in the how-to. lol But that tinny noise on the roof drove me crazy in the rain...not a problem anymore

 

I noticed you had a can of Great Stuff in one of the pics of the hatch. Where did you put that?

 

I've noticed in the two stickied threads on sound deadening that eDead is a popular product.

You may want to reconsider after reading this site.
http://www.sounddeadenershowdown.com/

Not to take away from the original posting. Great job with the write up.

 

The pictures in this thread are great, thank you so much for posting them. It makes working with a car much easier when you don't have a shop manual...

goyogi: Thanks for sharing that site! I've been looking for a resource like that for awhile.

 

Now thats tearing it up, I wouldnt ever think of doing anything that crazy. great job guys

 

That was done w/ the old asphalt based eDead.

Current eDead is butyl, no asphalt.

That page = outdated and pretty much causes misinformation now.

 

Wish I had this walk thru before I gutted my car the first time. lol Great write up! once I can get enough money together I will be switching all my audio minus the headunit up for eD stuff. . . no money right now

 

i just purchased 20 square feet of edead to do my doors and hatch. from looking at the pics on the doors do you try to cover the entire outer shell? and do you have to do the inner door skin for both the doors and hatch?

 

i just did my hatch with two layers of v1^2 and its a huge difference, no longer have the license plate raddle. now i just need to do around my gas cap to keep that from raddling....

 

Good Information in this...one day I will deaden the xB...

 

Thanks for all the pics and the detailed description I want to do mine sometime soon. This will help for sure

 

Extremely through my friend car does look nice too...Im assuming Alex was your salesman.

 

Duh

 

question before i start poppin pins... do they just come right out and then snap right back in? just figured id ask, i didn't see anything about new pins for like the hatch interior and whatnot.

 

I just took off the panel in the hatch yesterday. Even though I was being careful and using a panel puller, I broke 4 of the 13 pins. They're just brittle. However, I bought a bunch of screw-in replacement pins at Lowes, $1.04 for a 2 pack, and I needed 7 packs. They'll be easy to unscrew and pop out any time

 

Yeah, the ones that hold up the carpet in the hatch = very much so brittle. Shattered one and had to buy a replacement.

 

Only one? ;)

 

Regarding taking out the rear seat backs; can I just unscrew the L-bracket attached to the seats instead of the "bolts of death"?

 

Oh man! You just saved my @ss! I dropped the RPM dial inside my wife’s XB dash when changing the color of the LED's. No one sells just the dial, only the cluster. I was freaking not knowing how to tear into this thing and find it before she gets back from mothers house this weekend. (That's right, she does not know I changed her LED color, was going to be a surprise) Thanks gang!