Door Card Creaks - Remedies?

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Both of my A2's front door cards have random and rather irritating creaks - originating from the same area on both. If I 'squeeze' the top of the door card and the door handle 'hole' together the creaking stops. Anyone else have this?

I'm going to take the door cards off when I get a chance and try to solve this issue - does anyone have any tried and tested ways of resolving similar irritations!? I'm thinking of packing out the area with rubber matting/foam combinations - my logic being that once there's some pressure on the area hopefully the noises will stop!

Thanks,

Ian
 
this is a well known problem.

The panels are made from two sections; the top one is plastic and "welded" into place using melted plastic stegs, the lower is Fibre'd somethingorother.
Whatever, they're two different materials and where they meet can easily start creaking.
The pockets and armrest are another two pieces; the pocket goes from under the rear part of the armrest round to the front; they are also "welded" into place using stegs.
There are a couple of solutions for this, mainly involving "moosgummi", a mildly weird material resembling neoprene in some ways, and checking exactly where the noise is coming from.

If you really want to soundproof, then...
- take the door apart (3 x Torx20, one next to the tweeter, the other two under the armrest, then pull. disconnect the cables. Start on the Torx 30s and the three posi screws, cut the sponge isolation at the back)
- use some bitumen mastic to begin to isolate the aluminium plate
- mastic the complete loudspeaker area while you're at it - and then stuff it with the white fluffy padding
- get a 50x40 4mm bitumen mat
- cut it in two
- warm it thoroughly
- take the protective backing off and then argue with it to go behind the window rails. Don't press too hard unless you are supporting from outside! this is the skin of the door!
wait, leave it for 30 minutes to see if it will fall off, otherwise it might do and you'll only find out when you can't drop the window any more.
You can bitumen-mastic the door panel itself too.
Tip: first thing to do with the rear doors is screw the window winder into place, otherwise it won't go properly.

i've done this, and in conjunction with the reindeer-fur-OpenSky-net, the overall noise level has gone down appreciably. Unfortunately my spikes are loud :(

I have to take my driver's door apart again shortly (i need to re-wire my LEDs) so if you want I can take some photos.

Bret
 
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