JUTE carpet padding, what weight? Options

[malcolm2]

Can anyone give me some feedback on the best weight to buy? eBay Jute

This eBay store has several weights. This one is the heaviest at 40 lbs. My car still had this stuff in it. My guess is it is 20 or 10 lb stuff. I am using the b-quiet ultimate 1st. Figured I'd add this stuff too.

I figure it will add some insulation, sound dampening and soften the carpet. Pretty cheap too.

Thoughts?

Clark

[damesandhotrods]

At half an inch it’s kind of thick. I could see it helping to keep heat and cold from transmitting through the floor boards. I’m just not sure that it’ll make much difference as far as sound. As you drive along, there isn’t much noise generated under the car, the noise is coming from the engine behind the firewall.

[malcolm2]

At half an inch it’s kind of thick. I could see it helping to keep heat and cold from transmitting through the floor boards. I’m just not sure that it’ll make much difference as far as sound. As you drive along, there isn’t much noise generated under the car, the noise is coming from the engine behind the firewall.

When i pulled the rear panel it had jute glued to it. So sound and heat blocked from the upper firewall. My minimal study has led me to understand that stuff like the stick on tar panels knock down the high freq rattles and the thicker pad like jute takes care of the lower freq sound. Any sound engineers out there? People will put a patch of B-Quiet on the outer skin in the door. Not the full coverage, just a patch. It lowers the high freq vibrations on that large flat panel.