How to best seal VE door service holes?

[Calais57]

I am just fitting new speakers and am having difficulty in working out how to best seal or fill the service holes in the VE. I understand that its best to seal them with a solid sheet of some type and also cover with Dynamat.

The holes are not flat (ie in a single plane). They are pressed in towards the outer door skin in a few places so I can't just screw or tape on a piece of fine MDF or Aluminium sheet.

Any suggestions?

[m1lky]

Can you post pictures?

Could you use plastic and bend it to shape with heat?

[scott-95]

You should be able to easly shape the Dynamat with heat to doors no worries at all, Good heatgun / Expensive haidrier stolen from a female friend will do

[sweefu]

You would be best to cut out some MDF baffles first, paint / seal them so water can't wreck them, then tape them with gaffa tape to the door, lots of tape. Then dynamat over the top.
Fhrx Studios - Audio / Visual Specialists
Head to that website and go to 'images' you'll see lots of VE doors there

[StoneX]

Some people in here obviously don't understand what is being asked. A flat bit of MDF does not cover a hole that does not have level edges. The inside door frame is NOT flat, it recesses in in certain areas which make it very difficult to use a solid panel to cover the service holes.

Also, the door pocket from the door trim actually is recessed into the service holes.

When I've had this problem previously I've either used flexible plastic panels and sound deadened over them. This still made it very hard to put the door trim on that recessed into the door so the next time I just laid tape loosely over the holes and then deadened to the tape so it was loose over the holes. This allowed the door trim to push hard against it and it was basically a solid panel due to the door pocket pushing hard against it and is sealed air tight. For the other holes that don't need to be slack for the trim, I just taped over the hole with the tape taught and then deadened over it. It's not solid like timber but is still air tight to eliminate sound cancellation that would have been there before sealing.

[Calais57]

Thanks Stonex
you have described the problem well! It may be that I need to only use Dynamat like Scott-95 suggests, but it is better to use solid material if possible.

Any other suggestions?

[Calais57]

Here is a photo of the VE front door that shows the problem.