Sound deadening a 306

[Niall]

Right then next section - roof
Start by removing everything on the roof lining. Sun visors and clips, roof console, rear light if you have one and handles.
Now, pull the door seals back and simply pull the pillar trims away. Next the B pillar trims. Grab th height adjuster and pull hard. It will come off revealing a t10 torx. Remove this, remove the bit of plastic to reveal the seat belt bolt. Use a 17mm socket to unbolt this.
Now, remove both the door and window seals that meet it, grab the top and pull it off.
Working from the boot, remove the boot seal and the two t20 screws in each rear quarter trim. Once again, grab the top and pull it away. Remove all the door and window seals that meet the lining.

Now ideally you could do with the help of a friend here. If your like me and you have no friends, you can struggle on!
Working from the boot, gradually slide your hand between the roof skin and lining being very careful not to fold the lining. If it folds, it will leave a crease (not noticable if it's retrimmed)
Gradually work towards the front of the car splitting the glue from the lining. Once all separated, pull it out of the boot being careful not to tear it on anything.


You should have something that looks like this.
Clean it all with some meths and a clean rag and go and grab your hair dryer and silent coat

As said previously, heat the silent coat to help it stick. Apply the sheets to the roof (once the meths has properly dried). I only used 6 in total to dampen the metal.



Now, grab some cloud 9 and cut it to size. It's a pig to glue up so help is desirable and you really do need to use proper retrimming glue and not jus spay glue.
Spray the cloud 9 and the roof with a fair bit of glue and start to stick the cloud 9 up.





Do both sections but don't do over the metal bar in the middle otherwise the roof lining won't go back properly. If you wish, you could apply a bit of heat to the cloud 9 to help the glue set quicker and stop it from dropping.

Now I didn't take any photos of this bit but you will see that above the doors there are hollow bits in the body. I cut rolls of cloud 9 and stuffed them in there to try and absorb road/wind noise.

Once your sure it's all dry, refit your roof lining as it was removed. You will notice that the back of the lining is still sticky but you will still need to give it a good coating in spray glue before refitting.