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Procedure to take out your front seats, carpeting, console, and rear seat for purposes of applying sound deadener

Thanks to Urbanski

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  • Items Required:
  • Torx T50.
  • 10mm socket
  • various screwdrivers
  • Utility knife, roller tool, GLOVES
  • And Dynamat Xtreme from ebay.
  • Deadener du jour: RAAMmat BXT. http://www.raamaudio.com/ 60mil, butyl based, did well in reviews.





  • 1. Remove side lower trim pieces. Front to rear, pry up the white fasteners w/screwdriver trying to NOT break the black trim piece. The B pillar lower trim piece hooks onto the fabric coated B pillar piece with slots, don't break them. Sliding the seat forward helps. Pry loose the rear lower trim piece, but don't remove it. We won't be taking out the vertical rear seat today.

  • 2. T50 to the 2 bolts at the REAR of the front seats. Pop the plastic cover off the horizontal one.

    Unclip 2 connectors up front (one grey, one yellow).

    Grab and lift the rear of the seat, it unhooks and slides backward.

    Lift it out carefully, it is HEAVY, i estimate 70lbs. It was all i could do to lift it. Seriously.

  • 3. Remove the 2 front carpet pieces.

  • 4. Pop off the 4 round plastic covers rear of center console, 10mm socket to remove 4 rear, 2 front screws from console.

    I popped up the shifter boot but couldn't get the knob off. Unplug a connector driver's front of console, slide it up and off the shift knob.
  • 5. remove rear seat cushion by pulling up the front edge, remove rear carpet.
  • 6. Notice that Cadillac put 1 piece of deadener in at the factory (arrow). YAY.







  • 7. Carefully not covering holes you need for reinstall, have fun w/ deadener wearing your gloves.





  • 8. All goes right back together. Trim pieces last, they are tough to get back in.

    Observations: That's alot of bare sheet metal transmitting road and exhaust noise right into our cabins. I applied 2 sheets at least to everything and still have at least 20ft left over from the 62ft roll. I stayed away from they yellow air bag unit, and the black yaw sensor. The RAAMmat is new to me, and is very STICKY. More so than Damplifier, equal to Xtreme. I had to push down some previously-applied Damplifier but the Xtreme was perfect.

    I did discover a mystery. There was a male connector hanging unconnected under the center console right side. I could find no "mate" for it anywhere. It has green, grey, and another wire coming from it which headed back to the right rear fuse box. Everything seems to work well on my car but the front cig lighter, but I saw no connector for that. It didn't seem StabiliTrak related so I can't blame that for my crashes.





  • Time: 8 hours
  • Difficulty: 3
  • Beers: 2
  • Worth it: hell yeah, every time i put more deadener in it tames the beast that much more.

    ADDED WEIGHT: I was asked why I am "slowing down" my car. 62.5sqft RAAMmat was 26lbs, of which I only used 2/3 today, 15lbs. 38sqft Dyanmat Xtreme was 25lbs, as was 38ft Damplifier Pro. I'm approaching 300 ft of this stuff now. Plan to use the remaining RAAM to do the UNDERside and more on my rear deck to calm my mighty subwoofer rattles.



    Here is my rear seat writeup: http://www.cadillacfaq.com/faq/answers/rearseatsounddead/index.html





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