This is just a mini mod but maybe one worth considering.
After all the hours I spent in the H3 going to Yellowstone and back I decided to try this.
I removed the rear seats to pack in my bags down low and put my soft items on top of that. I still had a lot of ambient noise from the tires and different road surfaces that over time finally got to me. I know my hearing has degraded but hearing cell calls was difficult at times. Onstar phone thru stereo was lots better.
I thought I would try to bring the Hum in my Hummer down a bit.
Not really wanting to spend the money for dynamat I tried some Frost King self adhesive foil and foam.
12 inch wide roll 1/8 thick 15 feet long. It was almost enough in one roll but I bought two not knowing how this would work. Doing it in stages as a test I only put one layer in there to see what it did. I have enough to probably cover most of the area I did again. I want to make sure the seats fit ok and not misalign seat belts or child seat connections for my grandaughter. I leave the single seat in for her "throne" but you have to also leave in the entire cross piece for the wider seat to avoid cutting anything. It was about $36 dollars for both rolls.
I will make a test run but without all the other stuff I had it will be hard to know the actual overall difference.
I have everything out of there to go weigh and see what my starting point is. I'm still working on that.
I guess the next thing would be another layer and maybe, put some in the rear doors but I hate those dang plastic clips that always seem to break when you mess with them.
I covered all of the painted white area. It conforms well and the stiff foil holds it's shape. Adhesive seems aggressive enough. I did remove the two plastic door threshold pieces to pull up the carpet and get the foil under there.
That worked well enough I can now tell there is a lot of "road noise" coming from the rear hatch door. So I covered all of the inside of that, three strips behind that wonderful jack and the entire back of the removable access panel.
I think it was worth a little effort and less that $40 dollars.
After all the hours I spent in the H3 going to Yellowstone and back I decided to try this.
I removed the rear seats to pack in my bags down low and put my soft items on top of that. I still had a lot of ambient noise from the tires and different road surfaces that over time finally got to me. I know my hearing has degraded but hearing cell calls was difficult at times. Onstar phone thru stereo was lots better.
I thought I would try to bring the Hum in my Hummer down a bit.
Not really wanting to spend the money for dynamat I tried some Frost King self adhesive foil and foam.
12 inch wide roll 1/8 thick 15 feet long. It was almost enough in one roll but I bought two not knowing how this would work. Doing it in stages as a test I only put one layer in there to see what it did. I have enough to probably cover most of the area I did again. I want to make sure the seats fit ok and not misalign seat belts or child seat connections for my grandaughter. I leave the single seat in for her "throne" but you have to also leave in the entire cross piece for the wider seat to avoid cutting anything. It was about $36 dollars for both rolls.
I will make a test run but without all the other stuff I had it will be hard to know the actual overall difference.
I have everything out of there to go weigh and see what my starting point is. I'm still working on that.
I guess the next thing would be another layer and maybe, put some in the rear doors but I hate those dang plastic clips that always seem to break when you mess with them.
I covered all of the painted white area. It conforms well and the stiff foil holds it's shape. Adhesive seems aggressive enough. I did remove the two plastic door threshold pieces to pull up the carpet and get the foil under there.
That worked well enough I can now tell there is a lot of "road noise" coming from the rear hatch door. So I covered all of the inside of that, three strips behind that wonderful jack and the entire back of the removable access panel.
I think it was worth a little effort and less that $40 dollars.
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