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05-25-2015, 07:01 PM

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Greg_V

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Originally Posted by Big Al HURT123

Have you considered the pad keeper? In my rush to get everything for the in coming car I bought one. 167 but it does clean up the area nicely without having have to remove the pad. Just a thought.

I installed the pad keeper this weekend. My eyes don't hurt anymore when I open the engine bay. A little spendy but it makes for a very clean look. The one nut by the heater blower is a bit of a PITA if you still have it installed like I do, but otherwise a very straight forward and visually rewarding job.

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05-27-2015, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by CRG

...I cut off the screws for the pad with a dremel...

I've very temped to do this too.

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Originally Posted by ThomasC2

You can remove a lot of sound padding and still have a usable car, even bare metal. The real noise killer is the inner ceiling. Remove that and it will be loud!

So true. I first noticed this when I drove the car without the sunroof headliner installed (while it was getting recovered). Wow was the car a lot louder inside.

Here's a test, while driving down the road, push up on rear portion of the sunroof headliner to create a little gap, that should immediately increase the roar in the cabin.

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06-02-2015, 12:31 PM

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Pad keeper installed. Took 15 min. It was suggested to cut about an 1/8 of an inch off the tab to be able to easily fit it in under the blower. Very easy. great product.

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