Rattling Cables, Is There Some Type Of Foam Insulation Or Soft Material?

[iwanta34gtr]

Hi Every1,

I have some rattling cables in the boot of one of my cars.

It is because of the way they are thread up through the boot lid to an aftermarket boot brake light in the spoiler. Ive secured them as best I can, but they still rattle at present.

Just wondering if anyone knows if there is some type of foam insulation available that i can thread the cables through, or where i can buy some very thin foam or soft material to wrap them myself.

Aim of this is to obviously stop the cables from rattling against the metal.

Any advice or ideas are appreciated.

Cheers.

[Carbon 34]

Ducktape them down ? Or stick a bit of dynamat over them to the bootlid kills the wire noise and deck rattles

You can wrap in foam from clark rubber ?

Hard to imagine you can hear the thin wires rattling in the boot unless the car is super quite but meh who knows

must be something other then skyline the rb would drown out the noise in most cars?

[Nanogrip]

It could be that a relay switch that is rattling at the back. I usually use plastic tie cables for wire rattling.

[iwanta34gtr]

Thanks guys, this is for my S15 - its had the GT wing added, and the cabling has been threaded through the actual holes in the boot lid itself.

Will try out clark rubber / bunnings / post office over the next few days for some type of thin foam insulation or padding. Can then just wrap it myself.

Cheers.

[MBS206]

expand a foam from Bunnings...

[iwanta34gtr]

Thanks for the direction MBS206 - i'll check it out.

Cheers.

[Carbon 34]

Dont use expand a foam for that , its. A Mess and farks up a lot of stuff hard to remove if you need to work on it

And can expand enough to crack the outter paint / fiberglass/ plastic spoiler itself

It has to be wet to dry which sounds silly but thats how it expands best , it can expand 3 times or more the size needed so beware !!!

[iwanta34gtr]

Yeah i researched that, it doesnt look to be what im after. Its like a spray foam.

Im going to check out the post office / bunnings / clark rubber tomorrow.

Cheers all.

[iwanta34gtr]

For future reference, went to bunnings today and bought some weatherproof double sided tape (which just happened to be made out of foam).

Wrapped the cables completely with the tape and then rethreadded them through the boot lid - worked fantastic.

It stopped the wire on metal rattles and also held them down nice and tight.

Cheers.

Edited March 1, 2012 by iwanta34gtr