Just wanted to know what other people did when deadening their doors.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/downunderground372/door.jpg

Did you lay the sound deadening over the reinforcement bars circled in red or did you leave them uncovered?

Also, for the inner skin, did you fill in that massive service hole with a sheet of mdf?

Cheers.

i layed it over them, 1 layer i wrapped them tightly, and the next layer i sloped it so water would still roll off them and make its way to the drain holes.

as for the service hole, most people make an mdf panel for the hole below the door handle rods, and a small one above it (but i got lazy and rushed and just gave it 2 layers of dynamat :|)
keeping the paper backoning on some of the dynamat i managed to get a pretty tight seal around the rods too, but now its a pain in the ass if i need to access the service hole.. think ill be not-so-lazy next time :P

i hope your door wasnt that clean before you cleaned it.. otherwise i hate you :P i spent a good 3 hours scrubbing the insides of my doors, hehe.

also, if you plan on doing inner, and outer skins, and doing them properly, i hope youve got a bit of deadening.. i used 7.5 out of 9 sheets on my front doors alone, and i still wanted to use a little more but saved it for the boot lid :P

Hi mate this is what mine looks like:

http://file004.bebo.com/large/2006/02/05/11/7733404a263401890b66835567l.jpg
http://file004.bebo.com/large/2006/02/05/11/7733404a263401968b624975433l.jpg

So yeah, I just layed the deadening over that support and filled that hole with one big bit of 3mm MDF. I just used one layer on the inside and one on the outside. Each door took about 1.5 Stinger Expert Roadkill door kits.

Cheers
Pete

Thanks for the replies.

you dont need to deaden those bars... to find out what you do need to deaden, simply knock the surface if it sounds like a rattly tin can = deaden. If it is solid. you will be fine. Those bars are pretty solid. But saying that you can never deaden too much :)

Focus on the bigger open panels first as these are most susceptible

Peace

Tim

(good work!)