If you use your car in winter, then you simply need to insulate the hood. This way, you can save not only time, but also money while the engine is warming up.
Reasons for insulation
First, let's define the reasons for auxiliary insulation of the hood.
- during the frosty period, it is necessary to spend a long time warming up the engine, which is associated with excessive fuel consumption;
- During winter, a layer of ice forms on the hood, which negatively affects the paintwork.
Today, when there is a total shortage of everything everywhere, not every car enthusiast will want to wait for the engine to fully warm up. In addition, to preserve the presentability of the car, not everyone will carry out expensive polishing of the body.
All of the above provides a convincing basis for immediate insulation of the hood.
Material for insulation and clips
Before you start insulating the hood, you need to visit a store where you need to find all the auxiliary tools and material.
The most common material that you can use to insulate the hood is felt. Despite the fact that its appearance is far from ideal, it is inexpensive and does not wear out quickly.
And yet, even despite its low cost, it is very difficult to buy in our time.
Therefore, it is better to choose polypropylene foam, which is covered with foil. You can purchase it at any hardware store.
This material is sold almost everywhere under the Izolon brand and costs about $1.5 per sq.m. It is distinguished by the fact that it does not deform even when heated to 150.0 degrees Celsius.
It is this characteristic that makes it suitable for the task of keeping you warm.
To insulate the hood of a passenger car, it is necessary to form a layer of insulation with a thickness of about 2 centimeters. To do this, you will spend no more than two layers of Isolon.
After the material is selected, it must be strengthened in a certain place. You don't need to be a great technologist to understand that in most cars, fastening can be done using specialized clips.
They can be purchased at any auto parts store.
Hood insulation technology
1. First you need to cut out a pattern for the insulation for the hood. An unclaimed roll of wallpaper after renovation is suitable for this.
2. Then, using clips purchased at an auto parts store, we attach the wallpaper to the hood and draw out a pattern of the required dimensions, simultaneously marking the protrusions for the ribs.
3. Then, using the pattern, cut off the required piece or two from Izolon. Additionally, prepare a piece of Isolon to retain heat in the area of the stiffeners.
4. Glue the cut out parts of the insulation into one whole.
5. Make holes for the clips in the resulting insulation so that they coincide with the holes in the hood. Secure the insulation to the hood with clips and cut off the excess with a knife.
Now the insulated hood of your car will give you the opportunity to travel, despite the harshest winter, and avoid prolonged and thorough warming up of the engine.
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And, of course, ice will not appear on the hood. Which is, in general, what we were striving for.
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Quite often, car sound insulation causes mixed opinions among car enthusiasts. Some of them consider it a waste of time and money. The remaining car enthusiasts, on the contrary, are confident that high-quality hood sound insulation will bring great benefits, both in reducing noise and insulating the car itself.
Quick engine start and a warm car interior are two of the most pleasant things that allow you to drive in the winter without any problems. In autumn, the weather outside is quite mild and warm, but winter can be quite unpredictable, and severe frosts at night are common.
Most car enthusiasts have to move around the city very often, and sometimes even leave the car in the cold for a while. Then, after the owner returns to the car, the engine cools down, and then each time the driver will have to warm up the engine a few minutes before leaving. Another solution could be thermal insulation.
Hood insulation (hood insulation) will prevent the car from cooling down so quickly in the cold and overheating in the heat.
After you have insulated the hood, the positive emotions from driving a car cannot be spoiled even by constant traffic jams.
Hood insulation
Everyone has their own opinion and everyone makes their own decision to install insulation on a car or not. In our article you can easily find answers to these fairly common questions:
- Why do you need to install hood insulation?
- Basic rules for installing hood thermal insulation;
- What types of hood thermal insulation are there?
- What is hood insulation?
- How to install a blanket under the hood with your own hands?
- Necessary materials for hood insulation;
- How to make noise and thermal insulation of a hood with your own hands?
- How to properly insulate a hood in a garage with your own hands?
We make the hood insulation with our own hands. We take care of your car
Protecting a car from frost is a pressing issue, since residents of the northern regions of Russia often have to deal with quite severe frosts, and here a homemade hood insulation comes to the rescue.
However, the problem of frostbite also occurs in warmer climatic zones due to sudden temperature changes. Let us remind you that the car engine really does not like the cold, and even more so freezing. So, the feasibility of insulation is not even discussed.
Do-it-yourself hood insulation requires a fairly small amount of materials, as well as improvised means, for its production. Everything is done to a minimum, but it brings a lot of benefits. The most basic, most commonly used and practical is the most common felt.
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Despite the fact that its appearance is far from the best, it does its job quite well, and this compensates for all its minor disadvantages. The main reason for its unremarkable appearance is its extremely low price.
But not everything is as simple as it might seem at first glance. At the moment, felt is one of the few most scarce goods on the automotive market. Therefore, a very attractive alternative was quickly found. Namely, polypropylene foam coated with foil
. It can be found in absolutely any hardware store.
A distinctive feature of this material is that it is able to remain in its original state for quite a long time at very high temperatures. For example, its limit will not be heating even at 150°C
. This is definitely its unique and inimitable advantage, and if you consider that this happiness costs no more than $1.5 per square meter, then you can understand how valuable it is.
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Comments 28
Excellent, like new, still has the Cadillac imprint, cool technology.
super! coming soon too
I didn’t even think that this could be restored!)
Great! Bookmarked. I will do the same, I will definitely take advantage of this experience. I just won’t use self-adhesive carpet, because I suspect that it will come off due to the temperature under the hood.
Self adhesive plus glue
Turned out great
