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I 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
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I'm planning on doing this as well. Still trying to decide what heat ,cold, sound deadener I want to go with. My Coverkings is on order and supposedly has shipped.
I'm planning on doing this as well. Still trying to decide what heat ,cold, sound deadener I want to go with. My Coverkings is on order and supposedly has shipped.
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.
 

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I ordered mine on the 29th, they shipped on the 30th and it arrived on the 7th or 8th (I was out of town).

Now I just need my hardtop to show up.. Dealer already pushed it out, it was supposed to arrive just after Thanksgiving. Hopefully next week now..
 

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My Coverking is in along with a bunch of other toys to put on the rig. Ill install hopefully the 18th of this month, ill keep everyone posted but its not going to look too different than the JKU thread that was posted earlier
 
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We put the Hotheads sound assassin kit under our factory headliner. Made a Huge difference. It’s no Cadillac but it’s much quieter.
 

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Good morning everyone,

I have been thinking for a while whether this would be a good or a bad idea. I ordered a CoverKing Headliner for my JT. I have already lined my floor with KILMAT to try and deaden some sounds. Here's my question...

Would it be a good/bad idea to line the hard top with KILMAT before installing the CoverKing?

I was thinking I could go to Home Depot and get some extra type of adhesive to go between the KILMAT and the CoverKing, I just don't want them to sag and slowly start coming off the hard top due to gravity. Id love to hear all opinions on this!

KILMAT-
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0751CBXBT/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_image?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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https://coverking.com/products/topliner?variant=40457178054818


And before I have to hear "if you wanted a quiet car, why did you buy a jeep?" well there isn't an answer, im just tackling the problem at hand hahah

Have a good one!
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Just came across your post regarding the Kilmat on the floorboards. I'm assuming you reinstalled the carpet.

How hard was it to remove/reinstall the carpet? Did you end up removing the two front seats too?

I have the NVX insulation/sound deadening product being delivered next week. I'm in the process of reading up on how much of a PIA it is to remove and reinstall the carpeting...

Thanks!!
 

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Just came across your post regarding the Kilmat on the floorboards. I'm assuming you reinstalled the carpet.

How hard was it to remove/reinstall the carpet? Did you end up removing the two front seats too?

I have the NVX insulation/sound deadening product being delivered next week. I'm in the process of reading up on how much of a PIA it is to remove and reinstall the carpeting...

Thanks!!
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.
 

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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.
Sweet!! Thank you!!!
 

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I 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
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[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
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).
 

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It’s a Jeep. Could you go with the paint and sound deadener? Absolutely. There’s just the fact that eventually you meet the diminishing returns of driving a steel rectangle. I did some butyl deadener and the CoverKings and the sound and temperature results are pretty good. I could spend another grand or so and have really good results but it really isn’t worth it TO ME. It may be to you but it takes a LOt of work if you want these to have Bentley level interior sound quality.
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