Factory speakers fall under warranty? News to me
I replaced speakers in my Chrysler Sebring under warranty multiple times. They shouldn’t make speakers that blow so easily if they don’t want you blowing them under normal use (which I define as anywhere on the knob).
I ordered my Coverkings topliner on 11/23/2021, UPS tracking is showing expected delivery on 12/6/2021. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this happens.
Just came across your post regarding the Kilmat on the floorboards. I'm assuming you reinstalled the carpet.
Super easy job. Took about 2 hours. No need to pull out the seats. The only thing you will need to take out of the truck is the storage box under the rear seats. You will need to unbolt the front seats but I just pushed them forward after unbolting, no need to pull them out plus there is the risk of scratching up everything. Other than that you can just lift up the carpet and start putting the the sound deadening.
New Jeep similar treatmentI built my own headliner, painted the freedom top and put sound deadener on the panels. I had some second skin laying around from a past project. Sound system sounds better an road noise is reduced
I have been mulling over and debating on adding the extra step of acoustic paint...the only difference was that I was gonna paint the white hardtop/freedom panels (possiblt the tub as well when I do the floor) w/ a coat (or 2) of the black acoustic paint FIRST, then put SoundSkins sound deadening material rolled on and then the Cover King. I'm wondering if the extra expense of the acoustic paint + the extra effort to apply n time to dry and then possibly add a 2nd coat will be worth it. I've read a bunch of posts n comments about the sound deadening material and Cover King or other headliners but yours is the 1st I've come across that has mentioned what I had in mind w/ the extra layer n adding the step of applying acoustic paint (just in a different order).[edit] By the way a quick wipe with acetone or xylene will remove the killmat writing on the material. [/edit]
So I did my entire hard top both wings and the rear cap in killmat, like every square inch, had to buy new compass and sxm antenna that I mounted to the cowl panels because the killmat blocked their signal.
I also finished them off with black sound absorbing paint. Honestly it looks like shit, overlapping joints inconsistent thickness, nothing IMO really bad it just looks like a guy did it in his garage.
Point is it rocks, not only does the killmat block out and make the panels far more solid for the road noise, it blocks a ton of the radiant heat and cold those panels used to ignore.
I would do it again in a heartbeat. I might snap some pics tomorrow for show and tell.
I have tried twice to cover the panels in headliner but I have quickly found out that most of the headliner adhesives contain a solvent or two that just melts the sound paint and doesn't allow anything to stick to it so yeah just rocking the rattle can look for now. Honestly as many people have been in the jeep they don't notice it.
this was the paint, prolly useless but I wanted black to cover the silver killmat so why not use sound deadening paint.
https://www.amazon.com/Design-Engineering-050220-Deadening-Vibration/dp/B001URKV0G
