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On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 14:24, Jon Remers wrote: > Alfa Romeo used foam in boxsections of their Alfasud > range to kill roadnoise. This along with poor quality > steel made them rust like mad. > There are companies that do this thing so modern cars > as well, but then they use a kind of rubber oil > similar to "sch?tz". I read a report where a mag did > it to a Golf of the latest model. > VW has had foam in the "C" pillars for quite a few years. It is to cut the noise coming from the engine compartment. Pryor to the foam, they stuffed bags of cotton lint like material in there. -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '64 T34 (not running) '65 T1 (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~