Removing Sound Deadening


Alan.H

Alan.H

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Where stripping an EK4 here at the moment for drag use and track days, we want to remove the sound deadening inside it. Whats the easiest fastest way to remove it?

Thanks
 
When it's cold it can be quite brittle so most of it should be reasonably easy. Just hammer and chisel, white spirit and rags.
Often it's better to chisel down to make it crack and just chip away bit by bit. When you try to get under it and scrape a load up you often end up getting thin bits left stuck down which are tricky to get off.
 
If you want to spend money on it I guess you can get dry ice etc. Most of it's not that bad though. Just get started and see how you go.
 
There are TWO different types of sound deadening pads used in the car! The majority of them is the one that can be removed by cold temperature or possibly normal temperature. The other pads (rear side of rear wheel well and underneath near e-brake handle) are removed from HIGH heat. The pads that need high heat for removal is the one that a lot of people cannot remove because they don't know that using high heat is the trick to removing it. You will see a lot of stripped EKs with those few pads still remaining because it was too difficult for them to remove it.
 
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Look at this picture. You see the black pads that remain on the very left and right edge of this picture in the back of the car? Those are the ones I'm talking about! This person doesn't now the heat trick!

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just buy an ek9 and save yourself the hassle! :naughty:

Its a pain of a job no matter what way you do it, just get stuck into it. :nice:
 
People remove it to shed some weight. I used dry ice and a heat gun like Michael mentioned
 
never doing another, worse job ever.

Hammer and a flat head in the cold.
cba doing the ones that can only be removed with heat lol

new carpets going in so wont be seen
 
I always say i'd never do another, but i always end up doing them lol.
 
its over 10kg in weight from memory, its not a huge gain but thought i would remove mine while it was stripped and cold outside, simple job when the chassis is cold :nice:
 
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