Car Interior Modification Ideas to Make Your Vehicle Cooler & Quieter
Car interior insulation can help make your car or truck cooler and quieter. Many classic vehicles left the factory with little or no interior insulation. Their original materials also lacked the effectiveness of modern heat insulation and sound damping products. Here are some interior upgrades to improve driving comfort.
Right now it’s the time of year for repairs and improvements to our favorite four-wheeled machines. It’s the perfect time to think ahead for the hot summer cruising months and what you can do to sweat less and hear more while driving. Heatshield Products has all the materials to lower your car temperature—and also the products to help make things quieter inside your car or truck. We recently showed off one, our db Skin liquid sound damper, while cleaning up the interior and doing some floor repair in our 1963 Mercury Comet.
Here are the Heatshield Products Materials you need to improve interior comfort so you can enjoy driving your car or truck more.
DIY Car Sound Deadening Materials
db Stealth Armor: Car Interior Insulation and Sound Damping
Few products reduce interior heat, noise, and vibration without adding bulk or excessive weight. db Stealth Armor combines these benefits in one product. This car interior insulation fits beneath carpet or vinyl flooring and helps improve driving comfort.
db Stealth Armor weighs only 0.65 pounds per square foot and measures 0.176 inch thick. Its thin, flexible construction fits beneath flooring and conforms to floor contours with minimal effort. It combines the sound damping properties of db Armor with the heat insulation properties of Stealth Shield. The adhesive backing eliminates the need for separate glue. Reduce interior heat and sound in one installation.
Stealth Shield: Vehicle Interior Insulation
Original factory car insulation in older vehicles has multiple disadvantages. For starters, it’s not the most effective at stopping heat transmission through the floor into the passenger compartment. Two, the material it’s made from acts like a sponge and will hold any moisture in for a long time. This helps to rot out floorboards and also gives your vehicle a perpetual mildew/sour-type smell. This is why so many old cars will have rusty front floorboards/toeboards. Third, the material is very flammable, and it doesn’t take much to light it off.
Stealth Shield measures only 1/8 inch thick and fits beneath carpet or vinyl flooring. It resists flames and doesn’t hold moisture like factory car insulation. The material handles continuous heat up to 1,800°F. You can combine it with any of our sound insulation products. Use good scissors and a razor knife to trim it to your floor’s shape.
db Defender
While you’ve got your door panels removed to make way for your car interior modification ideas, it’s the perfect time to install db Defender material to help block moisture from coming through the door into your interior and also insulate the door from generating noise you can hear. Older cars and trucks used wax-covered backing boards behind door panels. Later vehicles used thin plastic sheets that blocked moisture but provided no sound damping. You can easily cut db Defender to fit your door’s shape. It blocks moisture and dampens vibration to reduce interior noise. At only 0.045 inch thick, it has no fitment issues. You can even heat the material to make it tightly conform to the door for a simulated dipped-in-plastic look.
Superior Automotive Insulation and Sound Deadening Products
db SkinTM is a liquid sound damping material that helps reduce interior noise and vibrations. Apply it with a paint roller or spray gun. Its liquid form makes covering large surface areas quick and easy. This interior modification dampens structural vibrations across 10 to 40 KHz and also leaves a waterproof barrier on the surfaces it’s applied to. It’s also good to use on the inside of speaker boxes to improve output. You definitely won’t have fitment issues under carpet or vinyl, and db Skin can be used with any of our insulation products for an effective thermal and sound barrier for your car interior.
db ArmorTM
A more traditional style of sound insulation, db ArmorTM sets itself apart by being specially designed and formulated to provide superior noise damping to your car interior while also weighing 20 percent less than the competition: only 0.4 pounds per square foot. It’s only 0.052 inch thick, so there are no fitment issues under carpet or vinyl flooring. db Armor is 1.5x more effective than the highest rated sound-deadening product on the market, as well as lighter and thinner. Its thin profile and adhesive backing simplify installation. Use heavy scissors or a razor knife to trim the material to fit.
