so this is my car 1.6 HDi Peugeot Partner
2007. I mean I know it's a cheap car but what has really annoyed me for quite
some time it's really consistent rattle even on
fairly smooth roads it's been considerable rattle
just around everywhere on the side trim on the trim behind the wheel and so on
so I decided really to take care of that and
see if I can quieten this down so this is really a video how to quieten down
considerably your car and I already have tried a few things and
they seem to work so stay tuned so first of all this is the
behind the instrument panel on top it's just a it's just a cover this
really rattles and drives me a bit of crazy
so if I if I move it you can hopefully you can hear it
and it just clicks constantly really it just bangs on quite a lot
so it's fairly easy to really remove basically just you
slide it out and it comes out there's a lot of plastic everywhere so
basically I'll have a bigger shot how I'm doing it but it's a lot of
really it's basically plastic on plastic and only
kind of three metal clips here it just rattles on especially when it's
kind of cold and start to really vibrate and you can
actually hear it while you're driving so I'll show you what kind of tools I'll
be using so I'll take out side trim door trims as well so let's
start with this one and see if I can
quieten this down so what tools I'm going to be using
I have bought this auto trim removal tool set
which is quite comprehensive actually it's got
a huge number of things inside to to remove trim
peaks and variety of plastic tools to pick different
trim so that's gonna be quite useful for the for the moment it's not
really but I'll be removing bigger pieces so I have a
methylated spirit, isopropyl alcohol is probably easier just to remove
any fat and other stuff that are on it, just to clean it and have a
good surface of course good sharp scissors so the
best thing that is probably really quieting those trim
pieces out is this felt tape and I have cut
I have cut a piece from this felt tape it's it's fairly thin
and it it's adhesive and at one side so here is a small piece of that just
kind of sticks and really will it it's fairly velvety and it's felt
on one side it's really it's really quite good actually so I also have
for the big trim pieces they have this
kind of it's not neoprene but it's let me cut this
it's really softy thing that I've bought and it squashes
very well and it will be for the bigger also for the for the other bits and
pieces will be to kind of dampen all sorts of vibration
so that would be kind of really useful although it's a
bit expensive so the last thing I have I
bought this velcro strip so it's two pieces so it it's
similar slightly coarse also self-adhesive
slightly coarse than the felt tape but I'll be
using this also just to try and quieten and stuff so this is the
other part of the velcro so this is the the sticky part with the hooks
probably not going to be using that just because it was two parts I couldn't
really buy one single part so probably the most useful is this
10 meter felt tape it's actually will probably
be quite good so in order to quieten this down the idea is really to
basically apply very close to the edge everywhere
just to apply this felt tape wherever where the plastic
meets plastic and for this particular panel is nearly every edge so I have to
apply felt tape around everywhere
and this will really quieten down so first of all in order for the
felt tape to really make good contact I'll clean it with this methylated
spirit
so next thing is really start has evaporated the spirit so next thing is
to really start applying those
I think it's down there
you really nead sharp
scissors for that
so what I really do is actually do this very close to the very close to
the to the edge so it will if it touches
anything so it's like that a very closed oops
and this really sticks very well so this is very close to the edge
it will really dampen any vibration if
if plastic is touching to plastic one could actually slightly reach it
over the edge so to cover this plastic as well
but this is fairly strong actually sticks very well so that would really so
next thing is to really apply across these edges across
everywhere and I'll show you the end result
because it takes me a while to apply it everywhere
took me about 15-20 minutes to do this whole panel so
basically I've put this felt tape across everywhere inside there
every really little edge inside there inside there as well I've covered all
the plastic bits with a bit of felt tape down the edge also kind of
inside I'm not too sure if you can be seen on
the edge here and inside as well and
for one good measure I'll I'll put just
two across here from the from the fat I'll put two across here from the fatter
one just in case it
touches something so well this doesn't need to be
this doesn't need to be really too accurate
just in case something touches let's put it here
that's nice and then another one
so hopefully this will really dampen dampen everything and it will be
really nice and quiet so I'll fit this in the car and let's
see well this is really quiet and moving it so inside the car there was a
that was a trim the new trim this basically slides up
on top
let's see if this is really going to be quiet
I mean these are my fingers but actually up and down this doesn't really produce
a single sound yes
and you can't really hear, but I'm moving quite a lot only my only my
fingers on the dashboard but that does not produce a single sound
and this will be really quiet and will not
move at all so next thing is this trim
next to the door I mean there is a bit of a there's a bit of a gap here but
you can see when the car shakes this will really produce quite a bit of
sound
and
it's basically it's basically just a few clips and it's it's plastic on
plastic so I'll do really the same
always see where what what moves on what so in order to be
able but basically all these but basically all these edges just need
a bit of a fail tape in order to and make them
quite silent just again to see where
this is
pretty much everywhere needs pretty much everyone needs a bit of a
fair tape so here is really the panel at the back
you can really notice anything maybe a bit sticking there but so what
I've done really all the way across I've put this felt
tape around these pins as well across there
everywhere where plastic touches on plastic and all the edges
this it won't be really visible it's going down
all around these that has plastic on plastic and
so this is so I've put this slightly foamy type thing here
and pretty much on any on any plastic on plastic where plastic
touches plastic so it doesn't really vibrate so it will be a bit tight to put
on so let's see so these three go in this hole so
it's basic it was plastic on plastic so it might be a bit tight to go in
because it's there is a bit of a will be a bit of a
resistance but
but that is really quiet I mean I'm shaking you see how this
this is moving here you can't really hear anything
there is a bit of a of this black stuff here that's showing but even this
is I mean I'm really shaking this
completely I mean other bits and pieces you can hear but you can
you cannot really hear that wow amazing this will be perfect
and you can't really see any edges nothing
there is a bit of a
a touch here so I might put a foam from the foamy bit a bit on top here
because there is a bit of a
but this doesn't
this is really quiet so I know really why this when I was
holding this so this was like that so when I was holding this it
was slightly there was a slight noise and what I've missed are these really
plastic bits that stick there so I'll cover them
with tape the same I've I've kind of up to there and really covered it so you
have to cover that one that plastic as well basically I'll
put the tape just across just put a tape absolutely across and then there will be
no sound from this so this is really from the
manufacturer, it's a soundproofing it's a bit of a
thinner just soundproofing it's not really for dampening
trim rattle so I re did those, instead of cutting in
between so I had a tape going across all these plastic things
that were slightly rubbing
and producing the sound which is actually nothing as compared to what it
was before so I'll stick it now and see if produces
the same sound okay so this is in let's see if this
maybe because there is no bank this I mean
this is really vibrating rather than this
you cannot even hear it
nowhere, I'm holding the camera with my hand so it's shaking but
this is like quite yeah it's amazing you can't even see where I've stuck
though this is this is actually amazing so this was the same
here but so probably that's producing slightly sound but I'll see
what I'll do with that one