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[NC_Overland]

Hmmm? Acoustic? Acoustics in these trucks is terrible.

I have a loaded truck - ACC, the works.

It means it’s insulated for sound deadening.

I have every option but ACC and dual tops. Really regret not getting the dual tops. I wish I had the soft top.

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[rwu355]

Zomojave, the headliners make a huge difference in the amount of reverberated sound. Shortly after getting my 2020 we made a 1000 mile round trip. I thought I had made a huge mistake in buying my truck. Son assured me the headliners would help. They got me a set of the hot heads inc sound insulation. Their is still some highway noise but no worse then my 2017 Tacoma I traded for the Gladiator.

 

[JET_83]

I had my windshield replaced and nothing was recalibrated. Actually, according to Jeep these have a recalibrate mode you put them in and drive them and it does that for you.



Here, in the winter, cars toss up scum, salt and SAND, passing trucks splash slush and sand and salt on your glass. Our windshields are pretty unglossy looking after a few years here - they sparkle from being sandblasted and look dull. You can literally see scratches in the glass after winter driving.

From my experience with 3 windshield replacements they do have to be recalibrated each time the ACC didn’t work on mine until it was recalibrated.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

From my experience with 3 windshield replacements they do have to be recalibrated each time the ACC didn’t work on mine until it was recalibrated.

It's easy on these because once you put it in the calibration mode, you drive it.
It's not a complex or drawn out process that takes special training or thousands of dollars of tools. And because the radar/camera are mounted to the "frame" of the vehicle, and not the glass - it's not like other vehicles.

Lifting or changing the stance (like removing rake) can cause the ACC and FCW to not work properly until you put it in the learn/calibrate mode and let it do its thing again.

 

[JET_83]

It's easy on these because once you put it in the calibration mode, you drive it.
It's not a complex or drawn out process that takes special training or thousands of dollars of tools. And because the radar/camera are mounted to the "frame" of the vehicle, and not the glass - it's not like other vehicles.

Lifting or changing the stance (like removing rake) can cause the ACC and FCW to not work properly until you put it in the learn/calibrate mode and let it do its thing again.

But one has to have the calibration tool to calibrate it

 

[JET_83]

Yes, the acoustics have something to be desired. I don't have the headliner in mine. Not sure if it will make a difference but I have the stock Mopar one in a box in the garage with plans to install it soon now that weather is warming.

Before I ordered mine, I test drove a loaded Overland with the headliner and it seemed a bit quieter.

The one thing that I should have ordered from the factory. Live and learn.

I hear the hotheads liner with the sound assassin strips make the cabin really quiet.

 

[WK2JT]

I went through a local business here in Parker.

I'm in Highlands Ranch and need to replace mine. Would you mind sharing? Thanks!

 

[BAT]

I will have to do something like this when I replace my 3rd windshield in less than 2 years. I just had a new one put on and already have a crack right in my drivers veiw

 

[ExoShield]

Wow the number of responses in here has been amazing! A bunch of people had questions about that ‘6X’ that we use here and on our website, which is perfectly valid - we wouldn’t want to spend our money on a product that doesn’t work either!!

Here’s some insight into why we use ‘6X’:

Those of you who have mentioned trying to throw rocks at the windshield is actually not so far off of how we do our testing! We have a highly controlled environment where we basically take a steel ball that is the representative size and weight of a rock that would get kicked up from the tires of a vehicle in front of you, and shoot it at glass windshields at different speeds and temperatures. We do this multiple times, and then look at what percentage of the shots led to windshield breaks for a regular windshield versus a windshield protected by ExoShield. What we found through all our testing was the ExoShield-protected windshields were 6 times less likely to break at highway speeds compared to unprotected windshields.

Although it’s difficult for us to share the details of the experiments and results within this forum - we just don’t have the data laid out in a way that is easy to share/communicate - but based on all the interest here, we’ll work with our engineering team to put something together for our website that we’ll share here once we have it ?

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Before people get the wrong idea about Gorilla Glass, chips and cracks, view the video below.
The GG is cheaper, and it's better against high impacts as far as shattering the inner glass, it's better at passenger protection, safer in accidents and where a high velocity stone impact could send shards at your wife or kids in the truck, it's not going to do anything about those annoying chips that eventually turn to cracks, causing the need for windshield replacement.

From all of the research I've done - if you are prone to stone chips, and stone chips that turn into cracks, GG isn't your answer.
It may keep certain impacts from being more major than they are, but if that outer layer is going to chip, it's going to chip even with Gorilla Glass.

 

[MaysvilleStig]

I'm in Highlands Ranch and need to replace mine. Would you mind sharing? Thanks!

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[DenverBob]

Wow the number of responses in here has been amazing! A bunch of people had questions about that ‘6X’ that we use here and on our website, which is perfectly valid - we wouldn’t want to spend our money on a product that doesn’t work either!!

Here’s some insight into why we use ‘6X’:

Those of you who have mentioned trying to throw rocks at the windshield is actually not so far off of how we do our testing! We have a highly controlled environment where we basically take a steel ball that is the representative size and weight of a rock that would get kicked up from the tires of a vehicle in front of you, and shoot it at glass windshields at different speeds and temperatures. We do this multiple times, and then look at what percentage of the shots led to windshield breaks for a regular windshield versus a windshield protected by ExoShield. What we found through all our testing was the ExoShield-protected windshields were 6 times less likely to break at highway speeds compared to unprotected windshields.

Although it’s difficult for us to share the details of the experiments and results within this forum - we just don’t have the data laid out in a way that is easy to share/communicate - but based on all the interest here, we’ll work with our engineering team to put something together for our website that we’ll share here once we have it ?

Can I suggest the testing be done on a Jeep windshield? It has a knack for attracting the cracks ??
Like others have said…nothing personal, just been there with GG, expectations were probably too high. FWIW … Waterloo is a great area… I used to work for a company HQ there. Any town that can boast one of the largest Oktoberfests outside of Munich is ok in my book ?

 

[ZoMojave]

I hear the hotheads liner with the sound assassin strips make the cabin really quiet.

I also have some Kilmat sound deadening that I will cut in my own "assassin strips" that I will install before the factory Mopar headliner goes in.

 

[JET_83]

I also have some Kilmat sound deadening that I will cut in my own "assassin strips" that I will install before the factory Mopar headliner goes in.

Lemme know how it turns out

 

[CerOf]

At what angle is the windshield when you hurl your balls of steel at it?

A Jeep JT windshield isat a much steeper angle. No glancing blows here!

6x is going to be in a controlled manner with, and a guess here, a windshield at a regular car’s degree of slant?

does this make sense?

It sure would have been easy to drop a YouTube video of the testing.

Does the test account for a vehicle moving forward at 70mph and the rock having been kicked up and flying back at let’s say, conservatively, 45mph?

Now, what I like a lot about ExoShield is how they are handling the questions, jesting, and grilling.
Their professionalism makes me intrigued in the product.

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