Tired of my rattling
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Printed Date: July 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Topic: Tired of my rattling
Posted By: jeffchilcott
Subject: Tired of my rattling
Date Posted: October 24, 2004 at 1:06 PM
Ok, I am so tired of the car rattling, I have cover most exterior panels with brown bread, trunk and floor and in the car using rubberized undercoating, about a good 1/4 to 1/2 in some places...and the trunk still sound like a gorilla is trying to get out...The vehicle is a 98 civic coupe, I am wondering If i am just not over the boundry of getting a quiet car anymore, we are hitting 144.7 on the term lab, but we could easily use this car for sq as well..any suggestions?
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2009 0-1000 Trunk WR 154.0DB 2009 1001+ Trunk WR
2007 USACI World Champion
2007 World Record
2006 USACI Finals 2nd Place
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Posted By: SoundFX411
Date Posted: October 24, 2004 at 2:13 PM
I had the same problem with the same car and found that when I filled the trunk lid with MINIMUM expanding foam it stopped the rattle. Make sure you use the MINIMUM FOAM BECAUSE i KNOW SOMEONE WHO USED THE REGULAR FOAM AND IT BUCKLED THE LID.
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SoundFX
Posted By: forbidden
Date Posted: October 24, 2004 at 5:50 PM
Jeff, what have you done to the plastic interior panels?
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Top Secret, I can tell you but then my wife will kill me.
Posted By: jeffchilcott
Date Posted: October 24, 2004 at 6:37 PM
im not getting to much from the interior, the panels have been sprayed on the inside with rubberized undercoating and thats not much of a problem besides the card is starting to creak and groan with age, I need to strip it all down again and replace all the clips I have forgotten to put back and broken hehe..the trunk lid has alread been filled with foam, then covered with 1/2 inch of undercoating, then brownbread around all outerseal edges, I am half tempted to take off the factory wing and inject fiberglass resin into it to stiffen it because I know that get flimsy and vibrates like mad...I just dont know any more, I just noticed it but we shattered a tail light buld last night..if that starts being a common occurance I will be mad
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2009 0-1000 Trunk WR 154.0DB 2009 1001+ Trunk WR
2007 USACI World Champion
2007 World Record
2006 USACI Finals 2nd Place
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