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On a whim I ordered the sound assassin top kit from Hotheads during their Memorial Day sale. I was concerned about installing it under my factory headliner. I shouldn’t have worried as so far it’s a piece of cake. My wife and I just did the front Freedom tops yesterday. The factory headliner pieces were held by two velcro strips per top. Super easy to take out. I work for a fiber carrier so I used some fiber cleaning alcohol wipes to clean the area where I’d be applying the butyl sound deadening strips. My wife used a pair of healthy scissors to cut them appropriately and we slapped them in. They were covered completely by the factory headliner.
We took it out for a quick test drive with just the front tops done and I was truly impressed with the change. Wind noise was definitely decreased especially at higher speed. I passed a slower car and left my foot in the turbo diesel as the road was clear. Blasted up past 90 and it was significantly quieter than it seemed on the freeway last week at 80. Much easier to speak at a casual volume with my wife and the stereo sounded “different“. We’ll pull the rest of the top off on 4th of July weekend and do the rest of the sound assassin kit and report back.
Overall I’ll say it was an excellent upgrade for less than $50. I highly recommend it!
We took it out for a quick test drive with just the front tops done and I was truly impressed with the change. Wind noise was definitely decreased especially at higher speed. I passed a slower car and left my foot in the turbo diesel as the road was clear. Blasted up past 90 and it was significantly quieter than it seemed on the freeway last week at 80. Much easier to speak at a casual volume with my wife and the stereo sounded “different“. We’ll pull the rest of the top off on 4th of July weekend and do the rest of the sound assassin kit and report back.
Overall I’ll say it was an excellent upgrade for less than $50. I highly recommend it!
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