Okay, with my small, but pumpen, system, i'm getting a ****load worth of rattle. It aint my number plate, coz i dont have one at the moment, it can't be my boot garnish, coz i insisted on putting rubber washers on all on the screws. i think its my actual boot lid! its shocking! i dont even want to think about what it will be like when I hav my sub and amp wired up! im also getting a fair bit of rattle outside my front door. there's nothing inside the door at the moment thats moving around enough to cause rattle, so i seriously dont know...

any suggestions?

sound deaden your boot with dynamat, heard it does wonders for the boot rattle. maybe sound deaden the doors to.

sound deaden your boot with dynamat, heard it does wonders for the boot rattle. maybe sound deaden the doors to.

where ever there are speakers, so in either just the front doors or both front and back, sound deaden there
and DEFINATLY sound deaden the **** outa the boot!
it will increase sound quality as well
http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=AX3680&CATID=&keywords=sound+deadening&SPECIAL=&form=KEYWORD&ProdCodeOnly=&Keyword1=&Keyword2=&pageNumber=&priceMin=&priceMax=&SUBCATID=
this stuff works well

Yeah, id bet its your boot.
The way the boot is shaped on most magnas there is about a 5mm separation between the frame and the acctual boot lid. My subs beat up into the boot lid and anyone who listens to Korn at full tilt learns pretty quick where the rattle comes from.

Most audio shops will do a full dynamat of your boot for a pretty reasonable price.
If you dont have much money, you can buy tubes of Expando foam (used for tile sealant) and spraying that into the slots in the frame under the boot lid is a quick fix, just neaten it up with a stanley knife. Though i stress its a quick fix, it wont last forever and is not as good quality as a professional dynamat.

Alternativley, lengnths of rubber cord (skipping rope) work by just cutting them into inch lengths and wedging it in between the frame and the lid. Even more temp than the expando because if you don't wedge them in really tight you'll be picking them up in your boot the next day.

Hope one of them works for ya.

Yeah dont use expanda foam. It'll ruin your boot. and make a mess.

Just bite the bullet and go dynamat. if you're on a budget buy less and chequer it. Make sure you target the larger areas of flat sheet metal as these are most susceptible to rattle/resonating.

Peace

Tim

Dynamat. I put on layer on the boot lid, both the inner part near the lights, and the outer part on the rear of the lid.

Reduced boot rattle alot. Now only thing that rattles at high volumes is the dam spoiler, but, hopefully, that will go when i apply more dynamat to various places.

Dynamat is a wonderfull creation, worth its weight in gold :cool:

thanx guys, ill try it out. but isnt dynaat really heavy? last thing i want to do is add much more weight and make th car even slower. the 4cyl realy doesnt put out alot!...hahaha one questio notrelevant, who approves of this "Uni-Chip" supposedly tailor suied to your car or something. good or bd you rekon?

thanx guys, ill try it out. but isnt dynaat really heavy? last thing i want to do is add much more weight and make th car even slower. the 4cyl realy doesnt put out alot!...hahaha one questio notrelevant, who approves of this "Uni-Chip" supposedly tailor suied to your car or something. good or bd you rekon?

Im the cheap one here so i will tel you of the cheap method.
Super cheap - 4L tin of Septone body deadner, smells horrible but for the money cant be beat. You'll get your bootlid done with About $10 of the stuff. adds weight to the lid which stops the vibrating, and since it looks but ugly, cover it up with a boot liner from an verada or something.
It wont add much weight mate

thanx guys, ill try it out. but isnt dynaat really heavy? last thing i want to do is add much more weight and make th car even slower. the 4cyl realy doesnt put out alot!...hahaha one questio notrelevant, who approves of this "Uni-Chip" supposedly tailor suied to your car or something. good or bd you rekon?

ahh yeh... thats the point of sound deadening, adding weight to stop resonance (ratteling, vibrations etc...) sound deadening is heavy, some is heavier than other brands, hence why its more expensive and works better, you can buy the cheap crappy stuff and you'll still have rattles there fore wasting money and not getting the results you wanted or you can bite the bullet and get good quality deadener and fix the problem you set out to fix, no money wasted... and i wouldnt worry about adding weight to you magna, its a 4cyl auto, its speed and acceleration aint impressing anyone as it is so i think the extra 4-5 kilo of deadener isnt gonna hurt ;)

Yeah, id bet its your boot.
The way the boot is shaped on most magnas there is about a 5mm separation between the frame and the acctual boot lid. My subs beat up into the boot lid and anyone who listens to Korn at full tilt learns pretty quick where the rattle comes from.

Most audio shops will do a full dynamat of your boot for a pretty reasonable price.
If you dont have much money, you can buy tubes of Expando foam (used for tile sealant) and spraying that into the slots in the frame under the boot lid is a quick fix, just neaten it up with a stanley knife. Though i stress its a quick fix, it wont last forever and is not as good quality as a professional dynamat.

Alternativley, lengnths of rubber cord (skipping rope) work by just cutting them into inch lengths and wedging it in between the frame and the lid. Even more temp than the expando because if you don't wedge them in really tight you'll be picking them up in your boot the next day.

Hope one of them works for ya.

I used silicone to seal the gaps between the boot lid skin and the frame work. Worked well and i was able to get in a similar colour to the paint so it looked like it was done by the factory.