Dynamat Group buy or single buy

[ben]

Quote from: Bedfordcrazy on Today at 10:24:20 AM
I found another product from autobarn [ option audio 6m x 1.2m roll  - $420-00 ]


Shite. For that price I'll turn up the stereo and put up with the noise!

plan on keeping your van for next 10+ years rouge? im sure it would be worth it for a quiet van id pay big $$$s
or you could turn up the stereo for the next few years until the van noise gets quieter lol.. (loosing hearing)

ben

[Bedfordcrazy]

Trust me guys, I will NEVER sell my van, if they dont bury me in it then i dont care what they do with it when i'm gone.  lol   
Back in 2004 a guy jumped my back fence and offered me $8000 for it unregistered, i sent my shep/rotty dog down to deal with him.
george

[Rogue Trooper]

plan on keeping your van for next 10+ years rouge? im sure it would be worth it for a quiet van id pay big $$$s
or you could turn up the stereo for the next few years until the van noise gets quieter lol.. (loosing hearing)

ben

Ha ha. Well I've had it for 20 years so far so I guess it's not out of the realms of possibility. Best I get it going first so I have some noise to actually deaden. Sitting in it and making 'vroom, vroom' noises isn't really cutting it anymore although it is cheap on gas. I think it's going to be pretty noisy sitting on the engine anyway.

[MaTTe]

George, its the small sheets not a roll.
The advantages with the small sheets are that it is easier to follow surfaces that are not flat, however you can cut the roll up to achieve this too..... I'm not sure how that works out in sq feet, but it'd be interesting to do a cost comparison. See if you can find out the details of the product to ensure they are direct competitors

[Warren]

A little bit of Maths

6 x 1.2 = 7.2 square meters

$420 / 7.2 = $58.34 / square meter

Matte how does that compare to your lot.

For the metricly challenged 1 square meter is aprox = 9 square feet - so thats around $6.50 per square foot

Warren
 

[MaTTe]

Warren, you could of atleast done ALL of the maths for me
so if its $180 + 20 shipping,  $200  /  36sq/ft = $5.5555555555555
Does that sound right?

So if we can bring the price down, that $1 per sq/ft difference will increase

[able]

so how many feet/box's do you need for a swb? anyone done the whole floor area that can remember how many square feet they used?

this is getting interesting.... im sure if its 1 and a half then members could go halvies in a box ect ect.

i remember putting second hand underlay and carpet in a old L300 (sorry for swearing) and it killed all road noise completely... i was just going to do that again seeing it worked so well last time... over a few layers of sound deaden-er as well.

[Dano]

sorry to pop any bubbles....... I build limos every day at work, we use dynamat in a minimal way......mainly on any "noisy area's " firewalls , trans tunnels etc AND realy good for large flatpanels that drone ... but it is soooooo heavy we actually can't afford the weight, believe it or not, (once we have a full install, and all)  Bearing in mind we have to comply with tyre loads and passenger loads etc. We counter this weight with other products on the market, bunnings do a silver light weight bubble wrap roll we use on the roofs but this simply has to be installed correctly to reap the best benefits (25mm spacing between roof and ins.) I personally have "aquired" a silver backed insulation foam (used in new homes) but that was free..this i will use on the walls and roof, also remember that if you are going to trim out ur van, that this also will have wood, (a good insulator) and foam, either medium or high density ( the later being better for insulation properties.) Finally we use and i recomend the simple car carpet underlay, ( a heavily woven flock of fabric threads) that you can get on the roll and well priced at around $25.00 per linial meter (2.0 mtr wide) BUT make sure you have fixed all leaks as this will absorb any water leaked into your van and eventually smell/rot/rust.

Not saying D/mat is no good, but really ur paying for the name and reputation caused by good marketing.....personally i would love to do what Joel has done, it looks awsome, but i can achieve the same effect at a third of the cost.Plus  your not going to see any of this because .....you simply are going to cover it again aren't you, with either another insulator........carpet/ fabric.

at a simple guess,
                           a SWB, 2.5 boxes will do the floor ONLY, but get 3.5.....fire wall, and good ol beddie engine covers, in and out if you have enough, plus rear wheel wells.Any left over, place inside,outside door skin/panels and in the middle of flat wall panels.
                           a LWB prob another box as really only that (LWB Panel) extra on the floor.

Dano

[Dano]

OH AND ONE LAST AND MOST IMPORTANT THING......AVOID F/GLASS INS BATS AT ALL COSTS..... unless you love fixing rust.......look at my LWB front gaurds in my gallery.... these were packed with f/glass.

this was commonly used in the '80's......shame,shame,shame.

[Jason 253 CF]

I used a whole box of dynomat extreem on my vt commo which was 9 sheets and that covered the whole parcell tray and back seat, spare wheel well and two doors. Cost me $300 and made a massive difference to vibration and destortion for my sound system that I now did the whole car. But I used another product I will get back to you on the name but each sheet was longer than dynomat extreem but narrower but roughly the same in coverage but I got 20 sheets for $350 and that covered the whole floor, fire wall and pillars and I have 1 sheet left. Weight wise it's added buga all but I will swear by it road noise is down heat from the pace makers is gone and can't hear my windy diff so win win and also I have a moderate sound system in it but sounds clear as a 10 k system, without looking like a tossed at the lights with a ratterly car so it is a must do mod in my mind only wish we did it to the beddy now but oh well the next one.