Rattling Boot

[will.i.am]

I had a sub once before great bass and sound but the only thing that put me off was the rattling in the trunk it doesn't sound good especially when your turning up the bass, I'm just wondering if there is a solution this.. im looking to buy a 12" Sub, 400Watt peak power and 200watt rms .. without the rattling noise at the back

cheers

[Subaru ETA]

depends on where the rattling is coming from! it wasnt just the number plate rattling?

[will.i.am]

The number plate and the whole of the trunk area

[wintertidenz]

Try using rubber or foam stripping behind the number plate in combination with rubber washers to reduce or stop rattles from there.

Boot - find where it rattles and line that edge with foam/rubber strippings, or alternatively Dynamat the boot. It will make it heavier, but more solid so it should stop or reduce the vibration - at the very least it will change the resonant point of the lid.

[will.i.am]

cheers wintertidenz, Dynamat was what I was searching for, I heard about it, hopefully it'll help :)

[Turbo_Steve]

The only problem I've ever struggled with was a vibrating rear wiper at certain frequencies.

In the end it was solved for me: I blew the back window out :(

[Atik]

The only problem I've ever struggled with was a vibrating rear wiper at certain frequencies.

In the end it was solved for me: I blew the back window out :(
WTF??? How did you do that?

[wintertidenz]

cheers wintertidenz, Dynamat was what I was searching for, I heard about it, hopefully it'll help :)

Just a warning with the stuff - it's not that cheap, and it's sticky as hell... don't get it stuck in the wrong place on the car because you can't get it off /lol

There used to be a couple of guys that sold stuff that was similar on TradeMe a while back, about half the price from memory.

[will.i.am]

cheers, I'll look them up :D

[Turbo_Steve]

WTF??? How did you do that?

Absoloutely ridiculous amounts of bass carefully setup for the cabin size of the car.

Friend opened a window whilst doing a full power run up, and didn't have any low-pass filtering, so suddenly the system was able to make MUCH larger waveforms, which apparently deformed the chassis of the car enough for the back window to be distorted, lose it's integrity, and shatter.

The car was a Ford Escort. Enough Said.