

| Subject: | Re: Sound Deadening a Vanagon |
| From: | Andrew Grebneff |
| Date: | Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:23:09 +1300 |
>I did this to my vanagon, and was mostly disappointed. The single most >importiant sound deadening proceedure that you can do is to buy quiet >tires. Without these, any efforts at insulating the walls and floors will >fall short of your most limited expectations.I mean tires pumped up to >48psi are hard rubber sound transmiters.15 inch tires at 35 psi are the >standard that most people had in previous vehicles and the standard which >the measure and success. Yep... and car tires of the appropriate load rating are quiet in vans too... -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin New Zealand Fossil preparator <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut HUMANITY: THE ULTIMATE VON NEUMANN MACHINE DEMOCRACY: RULE BY THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR
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