Building Cars Live - Door Shut Sound

[Willfin]

Was watching the Building Cars Live programme this week, and was intrigued by the Aston Martin door shut sound test. Mainly because they do sound classy and refined when closed, much unlike my T350 which goes ping rattle bang ting when closed. Do al TVRl doors make the window rattle sound upon closing? Would sound deadening on the inside of the panel help?

I used to have a mini with frameless doors, and the windows in that didn't rattle about, wholly different build techniques I know.

I also couldn't help think about how the TVR was made and what a TVR building cars live programme would've looked like....

Did anyone else watch it?

[2OOM]

I was interested in that part of the show as well, my dad had a 1972 P6 rover 2000 and changed it for a 1977 Rover sd1 3500 and I remember the sound of the door went from a clunk to a clang, it was probably the start of some disorder that was surfacing.. I was interested when the sound guy said the strength of the striker bar changed the sound. So if our cars are not very rigid in that area that would contribute to the less than pleasing sound of the doors.. also fibreglass must have different sound properties to steel or aluminium ..

[mr shifty]

One of the many little things that I derived pleasure from on my Tuscan Convertible over the Chimaera I had before it was the sound of the door close.

On the Chimaera you could tell from the sound that the door was hollow, which cheapened the feel when you closed the door. It probably wasn't helped by the door cards being a bit loose tbh and would have benefited massively from having some sound-deadening material inserted.

In comparison the Tuscan door close was a much more satisfying mix of metallic 'chuck' and lower-pitched 'thunk', which gave the impression of higher quality. Although it was still nowhere near the weightiness of a 'proper' car of course!

[portzi]

I must admit that when closing my chim car door l do the same as with the boot, l push the door closed keeping my hand in contact with the door panel with it making a nice click into place rather than a rattle if l let it swing shut.

[Transmitter Man]

Will,

Maybe you've not seen this old sales vid: https://youtu.be/t6oz388s26Q

I have a SEAC and know all about shake, rattle & roll

Phil

[x works]

Fitting Powers soft door strikers on "T" cars make a nice improvement , ( fitted about 5 car sets , good quality stuff) also ..
Door cards removed / fit a few slices of Dynomat or equivalent
A few packer wedges at the bottom of the door motor, stick a patch of rubber or old carpet were the glass lowers to the bottom of door skin inner
Lube all runners with grease etc...
Make share all the fixings are tight
Make Shure your rain curtain is in place , even fit another layer of 3m film over the top
Spray silicone the door card edges before re assembley

Hey presto .. 1/2 a Aston Martin !
Shutting the door after doing this really does massively improve that noisy ,rattley , cheap sounding door shut , to a more deep respectful clunk
I hate rattles !!

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To be honest with my Chimaera I get a satisfying thud / clunk sound when shutting my door. No rattles etc.
Not on par with an Aston but certainly on par with a modern car.

Mind you I know mine still has the rubber sheet etc in the doors which must help.

[SPS]

Willfin said:

Was watching the Building Cars Live programme this week, and was intrigued by the Aston Martin door shut sound test. Mainly because they do sound classy and refined when closed, much unlike my T350 which goes ping rattle bang ting when closed. Do al TVRl doors make the window rattle sound upon closing? Would sound deadening on the inside of the panel help?

I used to have a mini with frameless doors, and the windows in that didn't rattle about, wholly different build techniques I know.

I also couldn't help think about how the TVR was made and what a TVR building cars live programme would've looked like....

Did anyone else watch it?

Don't have that ting, dong rattle problem with mine.