First off sorry for the bad phone pictures, I always forget to clean off my lens before i snap pics with it.

Anyways, I started doing some cleaning on the Accent. I've been having a lot of issues with noise (rattling, muffler, audio) so I decided to get down and dirty and fix all the things that have been bothering me.

I started by removing all my interior panels and lining everything with fatmat (dynamat knock off) The interior plastics always seemed daunting to me, but if you clean everything out, remove the seats, and take the panels out in order (this is key!) it's really not that challenging and becomes very manageable.

here's where we are with the sound proofing.

someone mentioned using stuffing to keep all the snaps from rattling so you'll see some stuffed in my hatch. Haven't put the hatch plastics back on but in the trunk it helped reduce a lot of movement. I also put small felt pieces that you put on the bottom of chair legs on the body to keep the plastics from rattling. The result is a very solid sounding car.

I added some soundproofing to the hood as well to cut down on engine noise

Not much difference in sound on this one, I think the firewall is key but I don't really feel like taking out the dash. I think a new muffler would reduce a lot of noise, and I just met a friend of a friend who is a welder so new muffler should be coming soon.

I noticed in the back passenger area that there is a very deep area behind those panels that seemed big enough for speakers, and the accent hatches have terrible rear speaker placement. I kept them where they are, but added these big boys.


They put out enough bass that I don't feel I really even need a sub. They're infinity 6x9s, reference series if anyone cares.

Then I was using some Back to Black on my trim pieces and asked myself whether it would work alright on my headlights which i never got to be as clean as i wanted. don't know if the pic does it justice but one application of b2b and they are crystal clear. I would highly recommend using b2b over plastix


So next up is put the plastics back in, new muffler, new headunit, and i should be content for awhile

 

Looks good. Wonder if I could fit an 8" sub in the panel where you mounted the 6x9? Might have to look into it. Obviously I would have to support the panel if I did that.

 

I had to hammer some of the metal behind that panel to fit the speakers in. The depth of a sub would fit, you might want to get a shallower one, but honestly i don't think it would fit. those 6x9's are pretty much the biggest thing you could fit in. the width is fine but i don't think you'd have enough height.

 

Hmm...well if nothing else, a 6x9 will fit at least. It's good to know. smile.gif

 

you sure that dynamat up front won't burn?!

i dynamatted my car, still feels like POS on the road hahaha. nice work though. keep it rollin'

 

The product I got said that it was "heat shielding" at $1 a sq. ft. I think that's probably bullsh!t but for the past week now I haven't had any problem with it. Hood feels solid when you slam it shut.

 

Hopefully when ever you decide to give it a little more gas it wont start a fire.

 

cool. just lookin' out because i had to take my heat shield off my OEM hood or else it burned a hole through it and smelled up the cabin. that shiz can start a small fire and there are some fuel lines there. we all know what that can do. even a cigarette butt near that would ignite.

 

i matted my car with some ebay knock-off stuff, but it works pretty darn well. trunk, lids, doorpanels etc. i also went the extra mile and ghetto'fied it by using metallic heater wrap and even some water-heater insulation in the doors. god help the guy who tries to get to the speaker wires etc haha. it's on my cardomain, and looks like total junk, but the door slams closed with a nice solid "thud", no rattling, no noise, and MUCH more solid (sounding) chasis. totally worth the 50 bucks in supplies and day worth of work. btw, i found so many old french fries, toys, and change from the family before me. i even found an old bank statement..

 

wont that just cause more heat under the hood?