Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 01:48:37 +0000
Reply-To: Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
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From: Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: Re: sliding door... please help
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Recently, while re-painting my slider door handle with satin-black rattle can spray paint (gorgeous by the way), I also added a few 6" x 6" squares of randomly placed Peel & Stick asphalt/rubber or whatever the heck it is roofing material (cheapo soundproofing material) to interior of slider door. Since I already had partially removed the cosmetic panel to gain access to remove the screw that holds the slider handle. So I could paint the handle.
Anyway....man-oh-man!!!....was I IMPRESSED! Instantly turned "hollow" sheet metal sound into a nice solid thunk. Seriously. Now I will only wake up half as many fellow campers upon early morning exit. I was so impressed, that I also added more of the Peel & Stick to the interior of my driver door sheet metal (since I was also re-painting that door handle); SAME result!! Solid thunk! I only had a partial roll leftover from putting the Peel & Stick material on front "firewall", seat pedestals, front floorboard so ran out of material; but I will do the passenger side interior door soon.
And NO...you don't have to cover the entire interior sheet metal....just some patches of material here and there stuck to the sheet metal....basically, as far as your arm can reach through available cutouts. It's actually kind of a fun job!
Man, that stuff works! Throws off all the harmonics and resonance or something. Noticed that VW had added some adhesive "foam" or something (too lightweight to really be effective) to interior door panels from factory.....but methinks it takes a little "heft" like with the heavy asphalt/rubber/aluminum layers of the Peel & Stick to really do the job of reducing that hollow sound upon slamming doors.
Rich
San Diego
From: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Sunday, December 4, 2016 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: sliding door... please help
If you are closing the slider from inside, a second handle mounted near the
rear of the door makes it unnecessary to slam it. You can then use the
extra handle to pull the rear shut much more quietly rather than the usual
momentum/slam that wakes everyone nearby. Outside, same... just push the
rear shut..
I used a drawer handle and screwed it onto the door just below the window
On Dec 4, 2016 4:56 PM, "Patrick Seurynck" <climb12@gmail.com> wrote:
I too did the HDPE tape in both of the tracks, top and bottom and on both
sides of each track.
The improvement was very noticeable! Smoother and quieter.
Now I will be looking into this rubber bumpstop!
Thanks all
84 Westy
Patrick
On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 2:38 PM Dan N <dn92610@gmail.com> wrote:
> ohhh... nice... a piece of Fatmat will do the trick
>
> thanks
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