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Old Sep 15, 2005 | 07:37 AM
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Sound deadening.. edead v. others..

Has anyone had experience working with edead for sound deadening as opposed to something like second skin or dynamat?

The price is a lot better, but how is the quality?
Old Sep 15, 2005 | 08:03 AM
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yes i have..i have edead 1.0 in my car right now and i hate it....as soon as it got hot it started to smell...and also as soon as it got hot it started to melt away... when it started to melt away it no longer was sticky so my rattles came back...i could literally now go to my rear deck and just remove it without pulling it off.
Old Sep 15, 2005 | 08:11 AM
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Originally Posted by MaximaVQ97
yes i have..i have edead 1.0 in my car right now and i hate it....as soon as it got hot it started to smell...and also as soon as it got hot it started to melt away... when it started to melt away it no longer was sticky so my rattles came back...i could literally now go to my rear deck and just remove it without pulling it off.

Have you had dynamat / whatever before, and the smell is worse.. or is it just the general smell of sound deadener??

thanks for the input though
Old Sep 15, 2005 | 08:43 AM
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Stinger Expert Roadkill here. No smell. Great product. I vote no on the edead.
Old Sep 15, 2005 | 09:48 AM
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eDaed = teh suck.

check out the results for yourself here, and read the sticky at the top of this forum on deadeners. SS = TEH BOMB!!! Check out my worklog. The stuff is simply amazing.

http://www.sounddeadenershowdown.com
Old Sep 15, 2005 | 10:30 AM
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like metal maxima said check out the webpage http://www.sounddeadenershowdown.com/heat/index.shtml
Old Sep 15, 2005 | 10:46 AM
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I love that test.
Old Sep 15, 2005 | 11:03 AM
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I love that test.
It has pretty pictures, and I like the info on the website..

but it seems kinda pointless to claim that failure at 210 is a problem when cdc finds interior temps going only to around 172..

Originally Posted by cdc
Cars parked in direct sunlight can reach internal temperatures up to 131 F-172 F (55 C-78 C) when outside temperatures are 80 F-100 F (27 C-38 C) (6,7). Cars that are parked in direct sunlight and that are poorly ventilated also reach higher temperatures more rapidly than cars that are parked in the shade or that have windows completely opened (7). Most temperature increases inside cars occur during the first 15 minutes of being left in the sun (8). In at least two incidents during the summer of 1998, deaths occurred in dark cars, and the dark color probably contributed to the intense heat in the trunks (6).
overall though, I do like the site.. non-scientific but helpful.. thanks
Old Sep 15, 2005 | 11:57 AM
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rblox sound controll is preety good sound deadining....
Old Sep 15, 2005 | 01:28 PM
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eDead sucks!! I don't why people recommend this crap. It does fall off as the pictures show on the link once it gets really hot even with preparation with acetone and using a roller to apply it. My main complaint about it is really the smell. It smells absolutely horrible straight out of the box and the smell continues for a good 5 months. Everytime it goes above 80 degrees and my car is sitting in the sun I smell it. I've previously used peel n seel and dynamat extreme. Neither peel n seel nor dynamat extreme have a smell to them and they both stick. I had a sheet of dynamat extreme in my old car and I can't even force it off after 3 years not to mention its on the trunk lid and I did NOT prep the surface what so ever. Yes it is expensive but it works.

Peel n seel can be had at local hard ware store its about the same quality of edead except it doesn't smell.

I'll have to look into second skin to redo my max as it looks to be a superior product. I think being located in Arizona is a definite plus!
Old Sep 15, 2005 | 04:42 PM
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all thouse asphalt mats would have fallen off aroun 170 degrees if left for about more than 30 minutes... asphalt has a low melting point. and an even lower softening point.
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Old Sep 18, 2005 | 06:06 PM
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Originally Posted by second skin rep
all thouse asphalt mats would have fallen off aroun 170 degrees if left for about more than 30 minutes... asphalt has a low melting point. and an even lower softening point.
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Hey!! do you ever offer any group deals on the .ORG....if so that would be cool..if not id there a way .ORGers could get a discount off your website? If not im def. going to buy some of your product!!
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Old Sep 18, 2005 | 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by MaximaVQ97
Hey!! do you ever offer any group deals on the .ORG....if so that would be cool..if not id there a way .ORGers could get a discount off your website? If not im def. going to buy some of your product!!
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see the thread a couple down.. about a possible second skin gd.. 20% off all products
Old Sep 18, 2005 | 06:31 PM
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see the thread a couple down.. about a possible second skin gd.. 20% off all products
Yep. There's one going on right now.
Old Sep 18, 2005 | 08:28 PM
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I HAD Edead version 2 on my car, lasted about a whole month before it started peeling away. And the sad part was I had about 3 layers of it on and they all peeled away. I wasn't impressed at all by it. Now I have Dynamat Extreme and some "other" goodies I found here locally. Stay away from Edead. Second Skin is the bomb though, my boy who owns a stereo shop says it seels like hot cakes from his store. May be using that for my other projects I have coming up.
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