Alrighty, who has pulled out their rain barrier? I am going to be doing some RAAMmatting this weekend and would really prefer just to leave it out, but I was wondering what all of your thoughts were on it...

Thanks all!

-Sean

good question schleppy. i did my raammat and put the shield back on just to be safe. the black silicone that holds the shield onto the door luckily stayed on the shield (for the most part) and not the door, so it was easy to reapply. even if it didn't, it wouldn't be too hard to apply some extra silicone. i did some research previously, and found that a lot of people just leave it off with no problems....good luck!!

I removed mine and never had a problem.

Later, I went back on one door and loosely installed some Raamat over the holes. I made sure to cover the parts that could gum up the door mechanism with aluminum foil. It made a real difference in decreasing noise from the door. My advise is to cover the holes with Raamat.

Got rid of mine but sealed up the holes as much as possible with Raammat. No problems here.

Chad

Glad to hear that people are leaving it out without too much trouble...

My plan is to really go to town on the front two doors, get them nice and solid and then basically RAAMmat over everything that I can...

Any other advice/opionions/insults welcomed :-)

-S

A bit OT, but pertaining to water/rain. Are the backs' of speakers suppose to be able to get wet? I imagine the terminals and other parts would rust.

To protect the speakers, you should install a little rain shield (kind of like an overhang) to prevent water from dripping directly on them. The OEM upgraded speakers apparently come with such a rain shield; a lot of people just buy XTC foam baffles and cut out a little overhang out of those.

Schleppy: you should be fine. My rule of thumb is to cover with dynamat everything that the moisture barrier covered. Rich10 has an excellent point: cover up the adhesive back with foil or plastic sheet in areas where there are moving parts behind, so they don't stick on the adhesive on the back of the dynamat.

No barrier here, no problems so far. I've only had door speakers (added midbasses) for about 2 months though. Before then it was empty

My rainbarrier was replaced with Cascade vbmax and I haven't had any problems. :D Hopefully things stay that way.....