Need advice on installing sound deadener

[Coolt]

Where did you get that?

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[Badknee]

The only thing I hear wind leaking by the doors
Guess that is the good thing about hearing loss from living on an aircraft carrier for 4+ years. Ha Ha 26 hybrid lariat

THANK YOU for your service!!!

 

[Cherokee]

I purchased some sound deadener "strips" for my 2025 Maverick XLT truck. Where is the best and EASIEST place to install the material? I'm nearly 76 and I'm thinking I won't be able to get into some places on my truck. Where will I get the BEST sound reduction? (I've had 30+ surgeries, including 2 brain surgeries... so my mind - nor body... doesn't work like it used to. ) THANKS!!! I REALLY enjoy reading the posts on this forum.

Trade it on on a Lariat. Mines super quiet.
I’ve never even heard my turbo.

I do have extremely quiet tires.

Pirelli Scorpion AS plus 3’s running 38 psi cold and getting even tread wear.

 

[Maverick77]

I think the 2026's have a different exhaust as my Lariat is noisy. Ford came up with an extra 15 HP in advertised power over the 2025 models. I am wondering if they did a short cut in the exhaust department to get some if not all of the extra ponies.

 

[Pingme67]

Thanks Glen

Good idea.

 

[Pingme67]

To only be so blessed. Sometimes "the better half" is louder than anything else in the car...... I just turn up the radio (in my head) and cruise on mate!

Man.... as annoying as sometimes it can get, Id be lost without it!

If you know you know!!!

 

[Glen Baker LLC]

If you know you know!!!

Tim,
At what age did it start for you?

Absolutely. I have it in both ears.
A constant hissing. Occasionally the hissing will go away in one ear only. I mean like somebody flips a switch and it will be replaced by a tone. Like the tone they use in a hearing test. I call it my alien download.
Then, it fades away and hissing comes back.

 

[Pingme67]

About 3 year into my 4.5 years on the boat. Almost 60 now and the headaches from the constant humm/buzzing is debilitating!!!
VA says nothing can be done. The ear is broken and unfixable

 

[Glen Baker LLC]

About 3 year into my 4.5 years on the boat. Almost 60 now and the headaches from the constant humm/buzzing is debilitating!!!
VA says nothing can be done. The ear is broken and unfixable

I know nothing can be done for it.
As I'm sitting here "typing" this. I am more cognizant of the hissing.
I have my hearing checked at Sam's club every 2 years. Sam's does a pretty comprehensive hearing test including the spoken word and sentences, not just tones.
I've lost some of the high end and very low end spectrum other than that, I hear fine, unless my wife is talking.
When my wife asks me, if I heard that noise? I tell her, I hear noise 24/7 be more specific.
For my late brother-in-law it started around 70 years old he was never in the service. He worked an office job. He was never around loud noises. It bothered him a lot.

 

[Pingme67]

I was 25 when it started. 60 now

 

[Cherokee]

I imagine mine as the wind blowing,
It’s been with me since I hung around F-4’s and Buff’s
My best trick,
Turn up the Radio !

 

[Glen Baker LLC]

Where did you get that?

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[KO Stradivarius]

On my 2026 2.0 Lariat, my rear exhaust droned so much in the rear of the cab. In my ear's opinion anyway. When my son rode with me for the first time and also thought it was annoying, I knew I had to do something. I did not eliminate it, but knocked it down a lot so I hear more tire noise than drone. The biggest improvement was the tin under the rear seat's storage. The rear side plastic trim pieces at the rear door entryway popped off pretty easily as did the two halves of the storage compartment. The tin sounds like a drum underneath there. I used Siless Max 120 mil (3mm). Here is the Amazon link:

I left space around the holes in the tin where the plastic anchors go to prevent them from not reseating. I also kept going up the back of the cab.

"Tin", lol. I get what you mean, but to a just retired sheetmetal BIW engr, that hurts.

It may seem weak like Tin but it's not. The floor pans are not high strength, but there are some very strong metals out there these days. Steel technology is always improving. The key is keeping it formable when increasing yield strength, so you can keep it thin and still stamp it.

 

[KO Stradivarius]

Tim @Pingme67
It installs on the front edge of the rear passenger doors.
This is what I ordered from Amazon specifically cut for the Maverick. The top is tapered. I had trim 3" off the bottom.

It's called a Margin Seal. Many high end vehicles have a small section seal around the doors, but they are designed in up front.

This is pretty brilliant. I commend your ingenuity, but be aware that this could affect your Door Closing Efforts (how hard you need to slam your Door to get it latched). Each vehicle can be unique depending on how the Door adjustment/fits to that particular unit BIW. You may have just got lucky if you aren't having issues, depending on the size and softness of the seal.

You can adjust the Door attachments to the Hinges a little if needed, but this is a bit of an advanced level shade tree mechanic task. Maybe a bridge too far. You can end up defeating the purpose if you adjust it too far out, you can increase the seal gap to the primary Door Seals and make a big mess, never get it back to the way it was, so I don't recommend it.

 

[Glen Baker LLC]

Oh, I don't think luck has anything to do with it. I'm pretty confident in saying, most Maverick door gaps are probably the same. There might be a few that have adjustment issues.
It's pretty much designed to do what it does. I'm not the only one on the forum who has installed it. I haven't heard of any problems so far.
It gives a nice tight seal.
And the door has no problem closing.

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