20 Best Sound And Heat Insulation For Cars (2023 Updated)

very nice product. easy to work with. im still in the process of installing new carpet after covering the floor pan in my 1079 LUV pickup. ive got the carpet cut in and the shifter mounted so far,and its looking really nice.

cant wait to hear the difference this will make in this old truck.

I purchased this to insulate the engine cover (doghouse) of our Class A gas motorhome. The piece was large enough to cover the inside of the doghouse. I used the left over pieces inside the dash area and behind the radio.

Could not believe the difference in the heat issue we had been having. Couldn’t feel any heat at all inside. Noise was reduced by at least half. Very glad I purchased this product and installed it. Worked great!.

The material is a little over 3/8 inch. thick. I used it on an 35 hp 2 cycle outbound motor cover. The adhesive backing seamed to stick quick well. The cove had no insulation before and was noisy. This product nocked down the high frequency noise coming off the motor head.

WIt takes more than you think! I put it under the new carpet in my Jeep. Muffled the sound considerably. Also helps with engine heat and road heat coming through the floor!

it comes folded up and the paper would stick in the creases and then when I would pull that out the sticky coating would pull away with it. Seems like it was stored in a warm environment because of how it was hard to remove the wax paper.

That is why Dynamat and others roll theirs. Hopefully I did not waste my money and time.

So it comes folded, not rolled, which causes the back paper to be difficult to pull off. It’s not as sticky as hush mat should be BUT all in all is a great product for the $. Heck of a lot cheaper w/practically same results!.

Noico is my go to sound deadener from now on. Quieted the empty hollow inner shell of my E150 Ford Cargo Van. No more tinny sheet metal echo. Quieted the the whole rear up. Very impressed. There def wasn’t enough in one box to cover the entire van.

It covered 4 side window slots, & 3 out of 4 roof panels. Need more to cover the wells & so on. Will definitely be ordering more.

It was very easy to install and the product seems of good quality. I have noticed a slight difference temperature wise, but I think any differences should become apparent in either really cold weather or really hot weather.

This product is easy to work with has very good adhesive properties. Just make sure the surface is clean and not oily and if youre still not sure do what I did and apply some 3M 77 adhesive. I mainly got it for its soundproofing abilities and it does seem like it made some difference.

Subie Bros. If you want to STOP your RATTLES anywhere !! This is your thing !! IF you do it right all you need is Time & Patience. You can have yourself a SuBMW interior if done right. I recommend this to anyone who wants a nice an Quiet Cabin.

Purchased this for my roadster to mellow out the hollow sounds. It really helps making the car more solid sounding when driving and adds negligible weight.

Good product to finish my car. I used other brands of 80 mil sound deadeners in the past. This one is identical in every respect except for the price, which is is much cheaper. The next brand and price I found was around $84, for 36 sqft then $97 and finally $110 for the leader.

There is no reason to pay more than this product price at $59. 20.

Mice chewed the insulation in the engine cowl of my Astro van. I sprayed it with headliner glue and applied it to the fiber board. Worked great. It has a sticky backing that would hold it to a clean dry surface.

The sound and heat barrier is very good.

This mat is very similar to a much more expensive competitor’s product. The foam on this mat is slight more dense and the foil face a little thinner and slightly more fragile. But at 1/3 the price, I think a good value.

Used 0. 125” sheets on bare steel ceiling of new van. Hung sheets from a wire placed down the centerline of the van and used fluffy paint roller to start attaching working from the middle out and then rolling firm with the hard wooden roller.

Fairly good results only a few wrinkles. Was concerned that the black color would actually add heat to the interior but not so. You can definitely tell a temp difference in the lined areas and unlined areas.

Also made a noticeable reduction in noise. Would say money well spent. Foam surface actually resembles a real headliner so the roof appears semi finished.

I wanted some sound proofing for my doors and roof. I didn’t want to spend a lot and after researching dozens of products this seemed to be perfect. The description is the same as most of the other products and was a bit misleading.

The box description is more explicit in that the 1/8″ Dynaliner is for use in places where there is very little clearance for soundproofing. Also, the Dynaliner should be installed to cover the entire panel where other dynalite products only need partial coverage.

So, I had to layer the Dynaliner. I put down two layers but I should have used more. So, it actually costs me more than it should have. For example, to get 1/4″ thickness I spent 2. 3 times as 1/4″ Dynaliner & 1/2″ costs nearly 3 times as 1/2″ Dynaliner.

The door originally had partial coverage of some spray on soundproofing. I removed all of that and then put down the Dynaliner. When I compare the other door with the same spray on to the double layer 1/8″ Dynaliner, the spray on is noticeably better.

I think the 1/2 inch would be the right amount. Nevertheless, with two layers the car is significantly quieter so I have to say that this is a quality product and recommend it but only when there is not enough space to put in something thicker.

I will probably use this for the roof as there is not much space under the headliner.

I’ve installed several different sound dampening products as an autotech, but this Hushmat is by far my absolute favorite material for sound dampening. It’s less likely to cut your fingers so you don’t need to wear gloves while using it.

And better yet is how easy it is to work with, it’s very pliable so you can mock up the shape of where it’s going and make the whole process easier. The kit comes with a substantial amount of material, in my 2017 Toyota 86 I did the entire trunk, trunk lid, the entire rear quarter panels, underneath the rear seats, and just recently the entire cabin roof, I had already done the doors at a different point in time so I didn’t use the hushmat there.

The sound response in the car is VERY tight. Paired with a decent roller and a small pry tool for hard to reach corners, it’s very easy to install. Sound dampening is always labor intensive but I felt like I was flying through the installation with this stuff.

100% would recommend this, and in fact I’ll be pitching this product to any of my clients who are looking into sound treating their vehicles.

This product works great. The adhesive sticks well. I like the black facing. It looks good when installed. It’s nice to see that it’s made in the USA!

I cannot believe how easy this stuff was to install. Thank you Eastwood for bringing this USA made brand back into stock. I have worked with several other brands that made claims about performace, sticky ness and temp rating.

Hush mats is the first that has lived up to their claims Thank you thank you thank you.

The product seems good quality and was pretty easy to install with a wooden roller. The hardest part was figuring out how to configure the pieces to best fit my truck’s door panels without wasting materials and then reaching inside the doors to install.

My garage temperature was around 50 degrees, so before application I used a heat gun to warm up the material a little (to about 70 degrees). Heating it up too much makes it difficult to remove the paper covering the adhesive – it works fine again if you let it cool off a bit.

I have only finished the doors (need to finish flooring, firewall, rear panel, etc) and I can already notice the difference. I’m glad I went with the 80 mil material over the 50 mil. I was worried about adding too much weight to the truck, but this material seems pretty light considering (about 20 pounds per box?).

The biggest weight issue will be the 100 pounds worth of mass-loaded vinyl I’ll be installing next! All around great product, would buy again.

Seems to be a foil backed butyl base product thats stickier than some others Ive used. I was in 60 degree shop and didnt need to apply heat to apply as Ive had to do with some other products. Works great on overhead panels and firewall.

Probably a little soft for floorboard areas where heels would probably displace but sticky enough to put on the underside of those area. Overlaps blend well. Personally I prefer a roll for continuous panels and a little less waste but sheets are very handy and the grid pattern markings make cutting easier.

Competitive price so I will buy again.

I used this product (2 boxes) to line the ceiling of my 2016 Ford Transit 150 work van. It 100% made a difference in keeping the back cooler. Hot NC Summer sun would bake the roof, with the mat on the roof, you can really tell that it helps to repel the heat.

Cuts and goes on easily, adhesive does not stick to your fingers/hands and its just the right size to work with. I will surely order this again!!!.

It came folded, just allow it to relax before using. Had really good adhesive properties. Follow directions and clean surfaces really good with high grade rubbing alcohol before installing.

I have started to line my trunk with this, I have not finished and my system is still under construction. But it is sticking with no problem, and judging by the thickness and sponginess of the mat, I am guessing that it will help a lot with my trunk and rear deck rattle.

I will update review when all is done.

I am starting a van conversion [a big empty box commercial vehicle] and wanted to make any trips we took in it as pleasant as possible. After owning an electric car [Chevy Volt], we became used to the extreme quiet such a vehicle offers and we wanted to try and experience this same level of comfort in this van.

After checking out recommendations from others on the web, I leaned to the reliable Dynamat until I found out how much it would cost to cover every square inch of the interior of this big box. So, I searched for lower cost alternatives of which there were several and most out-gassed or melted down in the heat or were inferior in noise reduction.

Then I came across Noico in an installation video on Youtube. I watched as the 80 mil self-adhesive strips rolled down with ease and looked essentially identical to the trusty Dynamat. I ordered eight boxes and went to work.

First, the van is new and the interior clean so degreasing was easy. BUT the Ford Transit 250 has a double-wall construction that makes it very difficult to get anything against the surface to be tamed.

Many cutouts were only large enough for my hand to fit into and some were totally accessible so I did the best I could and hoped it would do. Wheel wells are a major noise source and I attacked them hard laying down as much as I could [remember the double-wall? Yup, it was there too.

]. I took my time and next were the rear doors, essentially empty cavities. I noticed that the vapor barrier was present on one side and not on the other [so much for robotics] and used two layers of 2″ thick polyester insulation and a layer of Reflectix as a final solution in these doors.

I quickly ran out of the polyester insulation [Mountain Mist] and had to treat the remaining walls waiting on the insulation to arrive. Each day, I would do another section and each day *MAJOR* improvements in noise reduction resulted.

The RH sliding door and roof were last and I have yet to do the cab floor, doors, and roof. However, noise levels are not quite acceptable as compared to our Chevy Volt. Road noise is pretty much a thing of the past but engine noise and heat is something I must address in the future, something beyond this review.

In summary, we are thrilled with the results at about half the cost of Dynamat. Two things I like better about Noico: 1) it is thicker and therefore reduces noise better [80 mil vs. 60 mil], and 2) Noico has these little diamond patterns on the foil that make straight lines easy to cut and tell you that you have already rolled over an area [both extremely useful].

Now there isone thing I wish they did not do: fold the product in the shipping box. They take three sheets and then tri-fold them before putting them into a box. Two sets of these three-layer folded sheets are in each box leaving two nasty crunched-up strips on every sheet.

While it did nothing adverse to the application [smoothed out easily with the roller and left no air bubbles] it would make an installers [read your] life easier if it came packed flat without folds.

In summary, if I were you I would give Noico a try. It applies identical to Dynamat and IMHO works better for less money. Attached pics show the wheel well with Noico then layered with Reflectix then covered with the stock plastic wheel well cover.

Notice the double-wall construction of this van and the limited access to the outer wall. My hands are well scratched and fingers raw after a solid week of work, 8-12 hours a day for 7 days.

This stuff works really well. It came quickly, was delivered in only a few days, and was super simple to install. I would recommend a utility knife with multiple sharp blades, as the tinfoil dulls the blades quickly.

The adhesive holds well, and the before and after is incredible. I covered the underside of the hood, trunk floor, all door panels, trunk lid, and rear deck panel. This stuff got rid of several rattles, and the before and after for sound is fantastic.

There was a bit of shipping damage, but other than that, no problems at all. Also, the price was great, but keep in mind you will need to find a roller.

I have done my entire car with sound deadener and have used several different brands. Noico is by far superior to any other available. If you look at the weight of the product compared to other bigger names you’ll find the Noico comes in at 27 pounds for the box of 36 square feet.

The super well known brand of sound deadener comes in 5 pounds less and costs way more. I used two layers of Noico in the new areas and placed a single layer over the old material I started with. I won’t use any other brand again, ever.

The level of difference in my automobile is incredible. The doors when closed are solid. The “tinny” sound that you get from the car is gone. It makes no noise at all any more. The only thing I hear are the tires on the pavement.

The body flex is gone, the creaks, rattles and shakes are all gone. The car is silent in every way. The stereo sounds better, the environment is more comfortable and sealed, the car has better ground contact.

It’s absolutely incredible. I stand behind Noico 100%. It is the top of the line product of which you won’t find better.

Quality heavy duty Aluminium foil, on Butyl rubber backing. It’s genuinely 2 mm thick, easy to cut (like butter with scissors) and easy peal the backing paper off. The sheets are much larger than you normally get in this class of product ~ 750 mm x 508 mm x 2 mm.

The buytl backing is super tacky (all the way through, the rubber itself is the adhesive) and sticks well enough that it will never fall off (so long as you have prepared the surface to be clean, oil/grease and dust free) but not so tacky and gooey if you make a mistake you can’t peel it off again and it does not leave a mess.

If you do remove a patch, discard the used piece. The embossed pattern is useful to know where you have rolled or pressed down correctly. It flattens with pressure. Nice feature. The black color is nice as you can use any black tape to cover any seams or cut edges that may have some butyl protruding making them sticky.

Gaffa / Duct black cloth tape works well. While this does not matter in most locations, there may be places where carpet or liners comes into contact with the product. Has no smell. Important for inside-cabin automotive use.

Highly effective at dampening out high-frequency transmission of sound through automotive panels, rain on metal roofing etc. Endless uses. The only negative I have found with this product is the black paint can rub off at points of heavy abrasion.

The paint will also rub off if you use Isopropyl or Methylated Spirit alcohols to clean it. Although its easy to paint with a spray-can if necessary, and this is normally used where it is not visible, so should not be a problem.

I recently purchased a 2004 BMW Z4, wonderful in many ways, but when closing the doors, they sounded cheap and “tinny” and way to much tire and road noise intruded into the cockpit when the top was up.

This product seemed the answer to bring this car up to its proper level of quality. And it is. I watched a Youtube tutorial on removal of the door panels and easy installation of the material. Tight quarters, of course, and have to place in small sections like a jigsaw puzzle, but the product cuts easily with scissors sprayed with silicone to prevent the tar from sticking.

I purchased the recommended wallpaper seam roller and used where access allowed, otherwise hand pressed and the adhesive seems to bond really well. Next, I look to doing the rear fender wells as they are right behind the seats of this sweet roadster.

Noticeable reduction in road noise and a wonderful solid clunk on closing the doors with the second layer of Dynamat foam, also easily applied on top of the mat.

Watch out Dynamat. Noico is here and in black or silver kilmat. Great product, butyl does not stink, sticks great with proper surface prep as you should with any proper application, the black surface is much cleaner in appearance than silver tin foil hat.

Looks factory. The added “quilting” is a great from installation perspective as you can see where you have rolled. Extra added bonus of quilted surface is sound wave diffusion, not a perfectly smooth surface all the time.

I will continue to order and use on all my vehicles. Recommended to friends as well. Major sound difference immediately noticed. May never need to order the other brand ever again!!!! Very impressed.

Thank you NOICO and fast delivery. jb.

I bought these mats as I have an old 93 ford f150. Driving around in it sounds like I am riding in military humvee, just loud. I installed these mats on the floor, up the fire wall and on the back wall in a standard cab.

I took it for a ride once complete and to my surprise the truck is still loud inside the cab but not as loud. You could say the noise dropped about 30 percent. I still need to do the doors and that should help a little bit more.

At least I don’t have to have the radio on full blast anymore just to hear it.

Although I can’t address the performance of the product yet, as the vehicle is restoration project, I can attest to the installation process. I found the product to be easy to cut and install using a heavy duty scissors or utility knife.

I used it on the floor of a Cobra Replica project that had many pieces, angles and curves. I especially liked the quality of the adhesive backing. It sticks and holds very well with just a little rolling (I used a formica roller).

Because it sticks so well it is very easy to butt pieces together for an almost seamless installation and very little waste. I will definitely use it again. In fact, I have already bought more for a 240Z restoration project I’m working on.

I bought this self stick mat to insulate our 1969 corvette. I purchased this mat and the tru max super insulator. My plan was to put the thermo Tec down first and put the super insulator on top of that and then my carpet.

The corvette has fiberglass floor pans and they get really hot, up to 156 degrees, the firewall got to 290 degrees. I cleaned the floor pan very well, then wiped it with an automotive cleaner. I fiberglassed a couple of bad areas on the floor pan and after that cured, installed the cool mat on the drivers side.

After installing the mat, I decided to test these two mats for heat insulating ability’s. I used a heat gun from harbor freight to check temperatures. I stuck the thermo tec to a small aluminum sign and used a heat gun to apply the heat.

At first things seemed very impressive, the dark side of the sign was getting very hot, but the reading on the thermo tec was only slightly above outside temperature. Then the sticky backing started to melt and drip out, the temperature reading was still low , about 90 degrees on the thermo tec aluminum foil side.

I touched some water to the foil and it instantly boiled and sizzled. I knew my infrared thermometer from harbor freight was not reading the temps correctly. It turns out the thermometer will not read correctly on silver shiny surfaces.

I started spraying black paint spots on the foil to get accurate readings. The thermo tec has a heat rating of 300 degrees. I stuck a piece of tru max super insulator on the sign and tested it, before I figured out the paint trick.

It was definitely cooler then the thermo tec. I called summit tech, talked it over with them, they suggested only using the thermo tec, as the tru max super insulator would hold the heat in the thermo tec.

I decided to test both products, for heat only on the passenger side. I did a base test, driving the car for 20 minutes and immediately taking heat readings. The bare floor pan had readings from 78 to 156 degrees.

I had two obvious hotspots , the exhaust was close to the floorboard. The thermo tec cool it was 128 degrees at the previous 156 degree area. The tru max super insulator was 89 degrees at the previous 156 degree area.

The temperature under the mat was 170 degrees. These tests were for heat only. I’d guess the thermo tec is better at sound insulation. I knew I had to stop the heat before it reached the underside of the floor pan.

I made heat shields for the exhaust, tin and muffler clamps, which brought the bare floor temp down to 95 degrees at the previous 156 degree area. I stripped out the thermo tec from the drivers side.

This stuff STICKS!!!’ It was all I could do to get it out. It pulled a lot of my fiberglass patching off and some of the original glass. If it’s not sticking for you, then you didn’t clean it good enough or didn’t roll it in good enough.

I’m currently building heat shielding for my exhaust, then I’m going to put down the tru max super insulator, then my carpets. I’m thinking about trying to use this thermo tec on the outside areas, where the foil surface can reflect heat, and the temperature will not get above 300 degrees.

I would not use this product for floor pans to reduce heat on the inside of the car. The picture is after I started removing the thermo tec.

I put this on the inside floor, back of the cab, and inside the doors on my 78 Dodge power wagon. It reduced the inside noise from the engine and exhaust to a level that you can speak and hear easy. The matt inside the door makes the door sound so much more solid when I close them.

I love this stuff! Summit always ships fast and arrives quickly.

It took most of the day to remove the interior of my car and install the product. The effort payed off with a much quieter riding Honda Accord. The vibrations of the road were diminished greatly. The price is fair for the product results.

My car needed 3. 5 rolls to install from under the dash to the tail lights. We installed it on a warm day 70 degrees and softened the mats by laying them in the sun. This removed a need for a heat gun.

A small roller 1. 25 inches works best for pushing the mat into the proper shape to adhere to the flooring. We removed or moved everything on the floor and installed the mat in manageable pieces of many sizes.

Cutting on a board with a box knife with snap blades. I drove the car over 200 miles when finished and the ride, sound and even the stereo were improved. I am very pleased with this product. The sales staff were very helpful and my product arrived within 48 hours.

Good people, good product. I would definitely buy this product again. The next time I need something for my car I will check with Summit first. The acoustic matting is not difficult to install. It does require a lot of effort and prep.

Fortunately my brother who knows cars because of his work did most of the work.

Initially I thought the damplifer would have been more than enough to stop a certain level of road noise and vibrations. I don’t have a large stereo I am trying to make better, I simply wanted to deaden road noise.

After trying a P percent coverage technique I soon learned how I needed to cover every square inch of metal in order to hear a noticeable difference. In some cases I needed to apply 2 layers in order to get a noticeable difference.

That being said I would recommend the damplifier pro for any and all situations. I give it 4 stars due to the fact that it did make a “very small” difference and did look good and was an good product overall.

I now need to tear apart my car again to finish covering many areas I thought would fine with the P percent coverage technique. 2019 Civic Hatch Final thoughts, get the Luxury liner Pro and don’t waist your time covering every square inch laying this stuff down.

The MLV can be slid under the carpet and is10X more effective for sound deadening. Not to mention I no longer feel the speakers vibrating the floor with the MLV.

I’m on a budget. So 1st I put it in the front 2 doors. Made a big difference. Made it sound like all the noise in the cars in the back of the car now. Then I put it in the passenger side rear door. Wow it made the sound go away from the back and more towards the way back.

I then put it in the door behind the driver’s side and it dampened things down a Tadd bit more not a lot. But the noise is still there and I’m going to have to get to the wheel Wells and probably the hatch.

I doubt that I’m going to pick up the rugs and put it under there. Since I been under quarantine I don’t have a lot of miles on the car but what I do have sounds great. I am looking forward to trying the speakerphone with the telephone.

People have always told me that it sounds pretty loud in my car when I’m on the speaker phone. I put a Subway for in under my seat the small compact kind which I’m pretty pleased with. Not sure our place the head unit.

It just kind of a big ticket money especially after having unloaded so much money for damplifier. Bottom line is that it’s made a big improvement in the noise. I think it’s made a good improvement in the speakers that are factory speakers but I just can’t be sure on that period my plan is to replace the to stock speakers in the front doors.

I’ve also put in a Subway for which made a big difference. I put that under the driver’s seat. I am at rocker from way back so I like my music loud and I love the base. But it’s also nice to have peace and quiet especially when I’m using the speaker phone on the car.

People have always told me that it’s pretty noisy with stink to me in the car.

Great product I’m going to go with the damplifier pro next time just because it’s thicker then the regular damplifier. So it should work twice as good as the regular damplifier since it’s double the thickness.

Love that you can put damplifier down then spray the spectrum over it for a great combination that can be beat.

I took my inner door panels off my SUV and put a layer of this on the inner surface of the door skin for all 4 doors, then a layer on the inner surface of the inner skin, 1 layer on the rear hatch door.

Used to be that you couldn’t hold a conversation at 75+ MPH without yelling, now it is so much more quiet inside. Worth every penny for 2 & 1/2 rolls. I’ll find a place under the carpet for the 1/2 roll that’s left.

Most difficult part of working with it is how very sticky it is. Sticky is great for having it stay where you put it though.

This product seems to be of good quality. After installing it on the floorboard of my 91 Jimmy, I can see why it’s also sold in smaller pieces. It does stick well( to everything ). A heat gun and roller molds it pretty good.

I’m sure there are better procedures that what I used to install it. So My suggestion to the manufacture would be include some instructions and suggestions for install. Can’t wait to get the interior back in to see how it helps noise.

Great sound deadening product especially when used as a base layer under detached neoprene and mass loaded vinyl. Makes a 454 with headers and 3” pipes much quieter inside the car.

Does have an odor (out gassing). Very dense rubber sheet sandwiched between layers of foam. Heavy product. Fairly easy to cut with sharp blade. Conforms surprisingly well over driveline tunnel. For a visualization I was able to place three rolls of paper towels horizontally end to end on a table and then drape the sheet of Dynapad over the rolls.

At the intersection where the rolls of paper towels met the table the Dynapad contoured tight with zero gap (think driveline tunnel). I installed the pad over Dynamat and have yet to again run the vehicle, though my belief is that this material with the rubber mat sandwiched between the layers of foam should help cut the radiant heat.

I would say the most dramatic improvement in sound deadening was the initial layer of Dynamat. I believe the pad may help cut a bit of the drone however not nearly as much of an improvement as the Dynamat which is butyl rubber adjusted to the sheet metal which stops the dynamic resonance of the metal.

I was concerned with the 1/2” Dynapad fitting well under the carpet though this appears to not be an issue. Whether this material is better than the stock jute pad material is anyone’s guess. This considering heat blockage and longevity including how this pad will dry when it gets wet etc.

We cut this in half and installed in behind the upper and lower back seat of our 1969 Firebird. It really soaks up and dampens the sound from the exhaust and wheel wells traveling down the road. If you can’t hear to make a cell call in your classic car, this and dynomat extreme can make your interior sound like a new car when properly applied.

I installed this dynapad in my 2010 Mazdaspeed3. The exhaust drone was almost unbearable before I installed this. Now that it is in, the drivers is almost a whisper and is much more tolerable. I would recommend this product to anyone who wanted to seriously wants to reduce road noise in any capacity.

I called Nixon to inquire about insulation (dynamat, hushmat) for the floor of the cab of my ’36 Olds. Into the conversation, he recommended this summit product. The product installed easily; the rubber base was very pliable, the adhesive was very tenacious and the foil top was quite substantial.

Plus it was less expensive than the others. I drove the car for an hour yesterday (ambient mid 70’s) and could only locate one small section of warmth on the floorboard. Much improved. I’m satisfied.