Are there any health warnings on the product? Like avoid contact with your skin, etc. Just curios if I can use this on my neighbors kids. :-)

Seriously, does it list the chemicals in the product? I know the web site says "nontoxic" but I would like to do my own research.

Those trying it, please let us know how well this product works.

 

http://www.quietsolution.com/QuietCoat_fam...0quietcoat'

 

Received mine in the mail yesterday and will post when I have it applied...

 

I have a rather dumb question, should I apply quietcoat to the metal part of rear wheel wells, or the plastic liners ?

 

I'll also pitch in with my experience here.

I put QuietCar in my MY04 about three months ago. This thing is amazing! I can't recommend it enough.

It turned out the company that makes QuietCar was just 3 or 4 blocks away from where I live, so I just picked it up from them directly. It was a pretty straight-forward transaction. They asked me to make the purchase on-line, and just choose "pick up" as the delivery method. No problems here.

I also started by just doing the inside of the trunk. The inside of my trunk ended up looking pretty much like Zeniac's photos. I was able to immediately tell a difference. However, for me it was more like this: I normally shift by sound. After I applied the QuietCar in the trunk, the sounds of the engine and exhaust definitely changed enough for me to mess up my shifting for a while. However, I wasn't too sure whether the sound volume had actually decreased; it could be because it was subtle, and my ears got used to the quieter, albeit still loud, interior. In any case, I decided to do more.

Here's what I ended up doing in the end, in order of operation:
1. inside of the trunk
2. inside of both doors
3. the ouside areas of the undercarrage; the flat areas under each seat, from the bottom side of the car, the areas that are not adjacent to the exhaust elements
4. the entire bottom of the driver and passenger areas under the interior carpets, on the inside of the car

After each of the steps, I could tell there was some decrease in the interior sound volume. However, if anyone here wants to do this, I would actually recommend that you start with step 4, which is to remove the seats and interior carpets, and just paint the exposed metallic parts of the whole interior. For the amount of the material you put on, step 4 is the biggest bang for the buck. The difference after I did step 4 was amazing! This is no "sorta sounds like it's quieter", this is a definite noticeable difference. I can now cruise the highway at 75 MPH (with top up) and still be able to listen to the stereo at a reasonable volume, which I could not do before.

Also, now, with the top down, I can barely hear the engine sounds while cruising at 55 MPH; the engine/exhaust sounds are almost completely masked by the wind noise.

Just as an aside, after I removed the interior carpeting, I noticed some Dynamat Extreme type of material already applied to the areas around the center console. I just globbed extra QuietCar over the top of it anyway. Seems to work just fine.

I ended up using 1.5 gallons for coating everything I mentioned about, 2 to 3 coats each.

It was a bit of a pain to remove the seats and interior trim. It's not difficult (unless you're working in a single car garage like me), just a hassle. I'd definitely recommend you to have the Helms manual handy for it. I also got a interior trim remover tool from Pep Boys that helped tremendously.

I painted the thing on with an el-cheapo 3 inch paint brush from Home Depot. The substance is pretty thick, and has just a slight chemical smell as it evaporates, but that's very light and definitely much better than any type of paint you might find. On the whole, I don't think the application process could have been any more pleasant.

The hardest part was probably waiting for the number of hours to dry in between each coat. But, it's definitely worth the wait, and the more coats you put on the quieter it would be, probably.

Highly recommended.

 

Although the wet weight of QuietCar is ~13 lbs/gallon, dry weight is only 8.5 lbs/gallon. See http://www.quietsolution.com/QCar_dsheet_scn.pdf for more detail.
BTW, looks like QuietCar is now available in Gray as well as Black.

 

[QUOTE=snowball,Jan 27 2005, 03:04 PM]However, if anyone here wants to do this, I would actually recommend that you start with step 4, which is to remove the seats and interior carpets, and just paint the exposed metallic parts of the whole interior.

 

Oh yeah, one more thought:

Especially if you're going to be painting the interior, I would definitely recommend that you clearly tag the areas where screws or bolts need to go back in with some bright masking tape or something. There were occasions where I slathered the QuietCar all over the bolt holes, which caused some trouble later when it came time to reattach everything.

 

It is the metal that you are attempting to quiet, so you will want to remove the plastic liners and apply it directly to the metal. I assume it would be easier to apply to the side of the wheel well facing the car, but I don't know off the top of my head how easy that would be to get to.

 

Why not near the exhaust? Will this stuff not stand up to heat?