Has any Qubo owner here added some decent soundproofing to their car or Fiorino?
I’ll be driving to S France in the summer and fear tinnitus and deafness will occur trying to up the radio to ear-bleeding levels to drown out the drumming and tyre noise….and I’m going on a music course so to have some hearing function would be preferable! Please post makes and suggestions, how you did it and if it worked…etc.
My 61 plate facelift is a lot quieter than the previous models but having had a lift in a friends Volvo XC90 I had to ask if the engine was running - pretty much the only indication of activity was the tacho showed some movement…
Yes there’s probably £50,000 difference in price but wow, why am I running this noisy beast when so much else out there is quieter (every other car?)
The aerial…due to the awful stock Daiichi thing the car came with, I fitted a Pioneer double-DIN HU with DAB and CD. The radio still won’t auto tune when the signal goes off as I drive around and I spent a long time in Nottingham/Newark/Derbyshire (Via Gellia-Matlock-Chatsworth) area last Thursday and I had to keep pressing the station button to force it to search, times without number
DAB doesn’t work at the moment as there’s no specific aerial (despite there being a DAB lead taped to the aerial lead in the dash).
Is the aerial on these cars just crap or have I had two lousy Daiichi units (one on the previous car) and the Pioneer isn’t very good?? I doubt the Pioneer is iffy.
I did spend a long time with a coat-hanger and piece of string trying to thread a pull-through from the dash centre to the LH A-pillar to draw a lead through for a screen mount DAB aerial but no matter how much I tried I couldn’t get the end to the base of the A-pillar. I will need to at some point unless I pay a firm to fit it but alternatively, is there a good roof mount aerial I could fit that will do the dual FM/DAB thing? The stock aerial has to be left as flat as it will go or I’d rip it off backing out of my garage - I wondered about a shark-fin but if that’s a good possibility, which one? Would a powered aerial be any better? (Not a motorised one..)
Any help or suggestions to get better reception gratefully received!
Thanks in advance, a frustrated
R-V-M
I’ll be driving to S France in the summer and fear tinnitus and deafness will occur trying to up the radio to ear-bleeding levels to drown out the drumming and tyre noise….and I’m going on a music course so to have some hearing function would be preferable! Please post makes and suggestions, how you did it and if it worked…etc.
My 61 plate facelift is a lot quieter than the previous models but having had a lift in a friends Volvo XC90 I had to ask if the engine was running - pretty much the only indication of activity was the tacho showed some movement…
Yes there’s probably £50,000 difference in price but wow, why am I running this noisy beast when so much else out there is quieter (every other car?)The aerial…due to the awful stock Daiichi thing the car came with, I fitted a Pioneer double-DIN HU with DAB and CD. The radio still won’t auto tune when the signal goes off as I drive around and I spent a long time in Nottingham/Newark/Derbyshire (Via Gellia-Matlock-Chatsworth) area last Thursday and I had to keep pressing the station button to force it to search, times without number
DAB doesn’t work at the moment as there’s no specific aerial (despite there being a DAB lead taped to the aerial lead in the dash).Is the aerial on these cars just crap or have I had two lousy Daiichi units (one on the previous car) and the Pioneer isn’t very good?? I doubt the Pioneer is iffy.
I did spend a long time with a coat-hanger and piece of string trying to thread a pull-through from the dash centre to the LH A-pillar to draw a lead through for a screen mount DAB aerial but no matter how much I tried I couldn’t get the end to the base of the A-pillar. I will need to at some point unless I pay a firm to fit it but alternatively, is there a good roof mount aerial I could fit that will do the dual FM/DAB thing? The stock aerial has to be left as flat as it will go or I’d rip it off backing out of my garage - I wondered about a shark-fin but if that’s a good possibility, which one? Would a powered aerial be any better? (Not a motorised one..)
Any help or suggestions to get better reception gratefully received!
Thanks in advance, a frustrated
R-V-M
