Sound deadening

[KK_96]

Has anyone sound deadened their Abarth 500 or even APE/AGP? I enjoy my music loud but it's really starting to wind me up the amount of rattles I get in the car. Whilst on the subject does everyone else get many rattles, on my old car a lot of the screws were visible so I tigthened the whole car up but most of them on the 500 seem concealed

[James]

Somebody did it on the fiatforum to their F500, be careful tho over tightening things can make the squeaks even worse.

[KK_96]

Not so much a squeak but more rattling, changed job 2 months ago (to a much longer commute) and it's to the point now I need to do something about it.

[CJ]

Have noticed that this little car has minimal soundproofing if any - similar to my old MK.2 Cortina 1600E.
This is going to be my next project KK. Waiting delivery of Silent Coat pads, replacement speakers for the doors and I'm changing the subwoofer too. Only going to sound proof the doors initially, but may do the front passenger area if I still have the energy! There are rattles appearing from the passenger window mechanism which I will deal with whilst I'm there. Could go the whole hog and apply a layer of felt but it would take me twice as long, TBH one layer will be good enough for me. Don't want to add too much weight 

[KK_96]

Let me know how it goes CJ!

[Bertie]

Alot of the rattles and shakes are worse as its winter, the low temperatures makes all the plastics and metals shrink.

Even though they may only shrink by 0.5 to 1mm, thats enough for it to rattle. Ive noticed mine is a lot worse compared to how it was in the summer when the cabin felt like a sauna!

Let us know how the soundproofing goes

Bertie

[CJ]

Woohoo! Just received this lot - Silent coat panels work out to be 4kg and speakers are slightly heavier too, i knew this but now i'm thinking that i should use felt instead.    Does anyone know which sound proofer is best?

[JackH1990]

Alot of the rattles and shakes are worse as its winter, the low temperatures makes all the plastics and metals shrink.

Even though they may only shrink by 0.5 to 1mm, thats enough for it to rattle. Ive noticed mine is a lot worse compared to how it was in the summer when the cabin felt like a sauna!

Let us know how the soundproofing goes

Bertie

I've certainly noticed a lot more knocking/rattling in the past couple of weeks but it goes away once the weather gets a bit warmer. And I only usually hear it when I'm crawling traffic with no loud music!