Hey I'm JR, training manager here at Crutchfield, and in this video we're going to talk about
Dynamat. Specifically, the Dynamat Xtreme door kit. First of all, let's talk about what Dynamat
is. This is a small piece of it right here. It is a multi-layered vibration damping material or sound
deadening. There's rubber in there, there's aluminum in there, and it's sticky,
and you adhere it to the metal parts of your car that might vibrate, especially
when you install speakers. Speakers move, they make vibrations, and if they're mounted to
thin sheet metal like your car, that metal will move and vibrate and make noise as well.
Dynamat reduces, sometimes eliminates those noises. You might be surprised just how
much of an impact applying Dynamat can make. Here's what a door sounds like before Dynamat,
and here's what it sounds like after Dynamat. You're going to need some tools to install it,
let's talk about what they are, and then we're going to get into installing a Dynamat Xtreme
door kit in this Subaru. First, you're going to need some tools to remove your door panel, some
trim panel removal tools, screwdrivers, things like that. You're going to want some rubbing alcohol,
maybe some shop rags to clean the surface you're going to be adhering the Dynamat to. You're going
to want some scissors or a razor knife to cut the Dynamat and shape it the way you need it, and you
want a roller tool to push that Dynamat into the contours of your door. You'll also want some gloves
to keep the sticky stuff from the Dynamat from getting all over your fingers. So the first thing
we're going to want to do is remove the door panel from the door so that we can expose the
metal underneath. To do that, I've got a screwdriver, some trim panel tools, we'll remove some screws, pry
this door panel out, and then we can start to look at where we're going to apply our Dynamat.
A couple tips for you: if you bought your speakers from Crutchfield, you'll get a MasterSheet. These
are our detailed instructions for exactly how to remove the door panel in your car. And also another
pro tip: you're going to want to turn your dome light off or disconnect the negative battery cable
so that your dome light doesn't drain your battery while you're doing your installation.
So now that we have our door panel removed, you can see the vapor barrier. We're going to
remove that completely and replace it with Dynamat. We're also going to do our best to
remove all this sticky stuff that holds the vapor barrier in place, and we're going to
remove the speaker. For this installation we are also installing new speakers, hence the Dynamat.
There's several ways to get this done. You're going to want to basically replace this vapor
barrier with your Dynamat, and if you are lucky enough to get the vapor barrier removed in one
piece you might be able to use that as a template so you'll know exactly what size
and shape you're going to want to cut your Dynamat into. That's just one way to do it. It's also
possible to put your Dynamat up here on your door in smaller pieces and cut them to shape as needed.
All right, so we're going to use the rubbing alcohol to remove any greasy stuff, fingerprints,
anything that would keep the Dynamat from sticking to the door really good.
That should just about do it. So the Dynamat Xtreme door kit comes with four pieces of
Dynamat this size, it's 12 inches by 36 inches, and we should be able to use two pieces per door.
Basically going to put it up here like this and cut it to fit. Things we've got to consider here
are wires, we've got screw holes that hold the door panel in place, and we don't want the Dynamat to
be sticking out at all once we've put our door panel back on, so we're gonna make sure to stay
within the confines of the door panel itself. And so you can kind of see the outline for that in the
sheet metal there, so we'll use that as a guide for where our Dynamat needs to start and stop.
You're going to want to save your scraps when you cut them off, too, because you'll be able to
use those to fill in some nooks and crannies elsewhere on your door. All right, so we've got
our top half pretty much done, we're going to go ahead and get our bottom piece, do the same thing.
Cover up the bottom half of the door...we'll get our scraps to cover up any holes where
we didn't quite get coverage, and then once we have it all in place we'll go ahead and use our roller
to really mash it down into the nooks and crannies and remove any air bubbles.
So as you can see, we've got most of the door covered. This is the piece we sort of cut away
to make sure we had enough left to cover. What's probably the most important part is right around
where the speaker is going to mount. It's going to screw into this metal, and we want that metal
to not vibrate along with the rest of the door. So we've got a big piece here, we're going to overlap
our existing Dynamat, we're going to cut a hole for the speaker, poke our screw holes through. We'll
probably take that round piece and stick it to the body metal on the way inside of the door there.
So as you can see, we've got the interior of our door pretty well completely covered with Dynamat,
and it clearly made a huge difference. We've got our speaker mounted, connected, we've tested it
to make sure it the wires and everything are working. Speaker's working, so now it's pretty
much time to put this door back together and then go to the other side of the car and do the same
thing over there. So we just installed a Dynamat Xtreme door kit. It comes with just enough Dynamat
to cover the inside of two doors. There's Dynamat products for all the different parts of your car,
there's a license plate frame kit, there's a trunk Xtreme kit, there is a Dynapad to go under the
carpet of your car, there's a hood liner, Dynaliner, all of these things work to reduce those
vibrations in your car. It makes your music sound better, it reduces road noise and wind noise, so if
you're looking to put Dynamat in your car, talk to one of our advisors. You can go to crutchfield.com/contact,
you can call us, you can chat with us, and we can help you get the right Dynamat for your car.
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