Door sound proofing.... Wow

[R.Taylor]

So,
I was bored the other day and wanted to tinker around on the rig. I remembered a product called Dynamat sound absorber / deadener. They use it on cars with high power sound systems to deaden and tighten up the sound. Anyways, Dynamat cost an arm and a leg.. About $80 to $90 each door on our Dodge rigs. Well, Some searching and googling got me sorted properly. Dynamat is the EXACT SAME product as the Peel & Seal type foil backed weather proofing stuff found an your local hardware store, It's in a roll and usually 6" x 25ft. Heavy foil on the top with about 2 to 3mm of black tar like rubber in the middle and strong adhesive on the backside. A trip to Home Depot and $16.99 later I have a roll of it and my front door panels off the new rig. I peeled the factory plastic sheet halfway up the door and laid the peel and seal, overlapping it by about 3/4" and rolling the flat sections with a veneer roller.... Stuck the factory liner back down and then did the upper half. All in all it was about 45 minutes on each door. The difference is night and day! The door has a nice solid feel and sound when you close it, The speakers sound 100% better... Much tighter with solid bass (Factory Infinity system), The road noise is 30% less... My 35"s go waa waa waa waa while going down the freeway but now you mostly hear them through the firewall and not the doors. This weekend I am going to do the rear doors, I'll take some pictures and post them up. It took almost a roll to do both fronts, Left me with about 3 feet extra which I am sure the rear doors will need on the new mega. 2 Rolls peel & seal $34...... Enough Dynamat to do the same job.... $320 to $360!!!