Added Sound deadening - 2025 XL Hybrid

[AngryGoose]

Just wanted to share this weekend's project and my thoughts on the results.
I dropped the headliner and pulled all the door panels off to add sound deadening to the roof, doors, and back wall of my 2025 XL Hybrid. I only took one progress picture for the roof due to a slight time crunch.
I went for maximum coverage on the roof and inner door panels (sheet metal portions), and strategic placement on the back wall and plastic door card internals.
The difference is very noticeable on smooth roads especially, with a marginal difference on rougher roads. Wind noise was knocked down some, and going through a car wash, the roof was silent.
The windows/windshield are still the biggest contributors to noise, along with possibly the gap between the front doors and fenders (just ordered the foam insulation pieces to hopefully reduce wind noise at highway speeds)
All in all, a straightforward and rewarding process, just tedious and time consuming

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[yank283]

Nice. Did you swap the door speakers while you had that taken apart? Apparently an easy swap, taking the panels off is the hardest thing. Coming from an almost 20 year old Tundra, the cabin seems pretty quite in my 25 XLT Hybrid. I guess it's all about perspective and what your used to.

 

[AngryGoose]

I did not swap the speakers at this time, it would be easy enough to do in the future if I decide to go down that route.
In my opinion, the speakers sound okay enough with a bit of eq, and they're only played at moderate levels 99% of the time.
I knew I wanted to do sound deadening (a crappy job on my last vehicle made a huge difference). I want to make the Maverick the perfect daily driver and comfortable for long stints on the road - I have some 8+ hour driving days planned out eventually lol and I had the time and resources to do it right this time and I'd say it paid off again!

 

[yank283]

I did not swap the speakers at this time, it would be easy enough to do in the future if I decide to go down that route.
In my opinion, the speakers sound okay enough with a bit of eq, and they're only played at moderate levels 99% of the time.
I knew I wanted to do sound deadening (a crappy job on my last vehicle made a huge difference), and I had the time and resources to do it right this time and I'd say it paid off again!

Yeah, I agree with you about the speakers, they sound decent to me also. I think it's been discussed on here about the Synch 4 system delivering more power to the speakers that wasn't present in the 22-24 XL/XLT Mavericks.

 

[Cherokee]

If you ever break your windshield order the
Lariat windshield. It has sound deadening tech built in it.
My Lariat is super quiet on all road and weather conditions, at any speed.

 

[AngryGoose]

That's the plan if I'm able to get insurance to cooperate, should that ever happen!
During a very heavy rain a couple months ago, the noise was deafening from the windshield. Side note, the stock continental tires on the XL trim are the worst tires in the rain that I've experienced

 

[Grabber Rick]

That's the plan if I'm able to get insurance to cooperate, should that ever happen!
During a very heavy rain a couple months ago, the noise was deafening from the windshield. Side note, the stock continental tires on the XL trim are the worst tires in the rain that I've experienced

I read they were not very good. I replaced mine with only 80 miles on them. Put Firestone Destinations on my factory XLT rims for winter and General Grabbers on aftermarket rims for summer. Sold the Continentals.

 

[Grabber Rick]

Just wanted to share this weekend's project and my thoughts on the results.
I dropped the headliner and pulled all the door panels off to add sound deadening to the roof, doors, and back wall of my 2025 XL Hybrid. I only took one progress picture for the roof due to a slight time crunch.
I went for maximum coverage on the roof and inner door panels (sheet metal portions), and strategic placement on the back wall and plastic door card internals.
The difference is very noticeable on smooth roads especially, with a marginal difference on rougher roads. Wind noise was knocked down some, and going through a car wash, the roof was silent.
The windows/windshield are still the biggest contributors to noise, along with possibly the gap between the front doors and fenders (just ordered the foam insulation pieces to hopefully reduce wind noise at highway speeds)
All in all, a straightforward and rewarding process, just tedious and time consuming

How hard was it to drop the headliner? Details on the steps to do it. Thanks.

 

[AngryGoose]

It was pretty easy overall, just a ton of small steps
I followed a YouTube video for a roof rack install by jcr off-road for the most part (I think that was the channel name) and that was 95% of what I needed.
The beige panel that covers the rear speakers was a headache to figure out, but the trick is to lift first then pull

 

[AngryGoose]

How hard was it to drop the headliner? Details on the steps to do it. Thanks.

The basic step by step for the headliner:
Remove both front sun visors (2 torx screws each side and a small plastic cover to remove)
Unplug the cable from each visor
Remove a pillar trim and 10mm nut holding the black bungee
Remove black plastic trim by rear view mirror (small plastic pry tool to undo one clip,then pull the piece down. There's a small retainer/strap that can easily be twisted out to get the plastic piece out of the way)
Remove all 3 grab handles (all you need is a small pick or pocket screwdriver. There's 2 plastic caps and 2 metal clips for each handle)
Unclip lower center trim (under b-pillar)
Undo 1 screw on the upper b-pillar trim and pull out to unclip (just has to be moved out of the way, not completely removed)
Lower rear seat back and unclip the large plastic trim against the back wall starting with the center seat belt trim (small screwdriver works great)
Unclip large plastic pieces under rear speaker trim (may need long screwdriver to undo the inner clip)
Undo one screw each side for rear speaker trim piece
Undo lower rear speaker trim clips, then push the trim piece up towards the ceiling and pull out (this was the hardest part to do)

At this point,the front of the headliner should be dropping a bit, there was 3 cables by the rear view mirror that needed to be unplugged then the front end is free. Go to the rear and pull down to release 2 clips and the headliner is dropped down enough to access the antenna or to install sound deadening

 

[Toddman45]

I read they were not very good. I replaced mine with only 80 miles on them. Put Firestone Destinations on my factory XLT rims for winter and General Grabbers on aftermarket rims for summer. Sold the Continentals.

They're not, believe me I've had them in two previous Fords as well as my current 19 explorer Platinum. That soundscreen windshield makes little to no difference at all.

Your best bet is doing sound deadening material as well as foam insulation that'll keep the road noise down far better than any laminate windshield will ever do.

 

[Cherokee]

That's the plan if I'm able to get insurance to cooperate, should that ever happen!
During a very heavy rain a couple months ago, the noise was deafening from the windshield. Side note, the stock continental tires on the XL trim are the worst tires in the rain that I've experienced

Work with the glass installer, pay the difference, bout a C note last time I asked at the dealer parts counter.

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