Had to spend some time removing all the sound system and the rear seats. Then it was a case of lifting the carpet so as the Seal Tite could be fitted. The seal tite was really easy to fit. Size up the area you need to cover, then cut enough strips to cover it with a stanley knife. Then remove the cover over the sticky side of the Seal Tite. Place the strip down, working from one and to another, making sure that the Seal Tite goes into all of the area that it is to cover. The Seal Tite also help keep out road noise. It is possible to fit the strips without removing the seat, but by taking them out you give yourself a great deal more space. This pics shows my almost finished boot floor:
Now, the Seal Tite was the easy bit. The hard bit is the boot lid. The boot lid on the saxo has four huge holes thats allow alot of the bass to escape and turn into annoying vibration of the reg plate and the window wiper. I couldn't find anything that would work on the boot lid, until i was at Homebase buying the Seal Tite. I saw Unibond's Expanding foam, so I decided to give it a go. I knew it was gonna be fairly difficult, but i didn't expect it to be as difficult as it turned out to be.
I covered everything in my boot that I didn't want to get dirty. The expanding foam came with the nozzle and a pair of smart blue gloves to protect your little fingers. I donned the gloves and proceeded to stuff the nozzle right into the far corner of my boot lid and began spraying. I followed the instructions on the tin to spray and then slowly draw the nozzle out as you continue spraying. The foam came out to the hole and so I filled the remaining gaps on the hole. I repeated the same steps for each of the four holes. The tin said once finished to leave it for and hour to expnad then dry. I decided to be certain I would just leave it overnight in the garage. THE WORST IDEA EVER
I got the car out the garage the next day and had a look at the expanding foam from the inside of the car. I took the car round from my garage to my front door. Went round to the back of the boot and pressed the button to open the boot, nothing. So I got my keys and locked then unlocked the car. Still the boot didn't open. By this time I was really in need of the toilet!!! I franticlly tried pushing the button in and then pulling really hard at the boot. Nothing was working. I couldn't even get into the screw holes to remove the panel on the inside of the boot lid, because when the boot is shut the screw hole get covered by the panels on the inside of boot. i didn't have a screw driver long enough to reach down into those holes. I made the fatest drive ever down to Yuri's house in the hope that he would have a screw driver long enough to reach in. Luckily for me he did had. The inside panels were quickly remeved, as was the panel on the boot lid. The problem became apparent instantly, far, far, far too much epanding foam in the centre section of the boot. A dig away with the screw driver remeved all of the clogged up section and so the boot was fully fuctioning again. After that frantic half hour of worry I took the time to take a pic of the mess I was left to sort:
The next step after filling the boot with the expanding foam, correctly, is to cut off all of the excess foam that has come out of the holes. I cut of the large chunks using a small saw. I then managed to get a knife out of my house without my parents seeing. This came in handy for neatly trimming any remaining foam. Once the foam had been cut down level with the rest of the boot it was time to cover the expanding foam up. I was gonna buy carper from Ripspeed, but Yuri still had a fair amount left from previously doing his boot. I removed the panel on the inside of the boot lid, this time with the boot open. We cut two small squares out of the carpet, big enough to cover two half of the boot. We then covered one side of the carpet in Autoleads spray glue for fabric (really good stuff) and stuck it on the boot. Next step was to neatly trim around the edges with a stanley knife, making sure not to scratch the body work. Once that was done we cut a small rectangular piece to join the two pieces of carpet where the boot lock mechanism is. This left some white marks from the glue so we used simple black spray paint to cover those up. We stood back and admired our handy work:
