Sound deadening a 306

[Niall]

Boot floor

First and easiest area is the boot floor. For this I'm using cloud 9 because to silent coat it, would use a fair amount and add a fair bit of weight.

Start by removing your old carpet and sound deadening. This is held down by 4 pegs pushed into the floor. These simply prise out. Keep the carpet and chuck the sound deadening (notice how much weight is in the sound deadening?)

Take your carpet and lye it on top of a section of cloud 9. Take some sharp scissors and cut around. It's as simple as that!



Note: I have been informed by my carpet shop that the paper side should be up as it offers a slight degree of water repellent.

Next, take a few strips and some spray glue and start filling in the gaps in the boot floor. Gluing down each bit. This doesn't have to be neat. It's only there to stop your carpet following the line of the floor and looking shitty.



Next simply take your cut to shape bit of cloud nine and rest on top. Don't glue it down as you might need access under here at some point. Place the original carpet over the top and pierce through where the pegs go. Place pegs through to hold it in place. Job done!

Just doing this has made a massive difference! Road noise has dropped a lot and the clunky rear suspension is now more of a thud!

Next: deadening doors.