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Understood. I am basing my expensive decision on some communication with Advanced Fiberglass Concepts. They took decibel readings with their one piece at 82mph with a 20mph headwind they reported 70 decibels. I am not sure how scientific that is, but using the decibel meter on my Apple Watch I hit 75 decibels around 60mph with limited outside wind. Again, not scientific but info worth considering for comparative purposes.i appreciate that you’re taking the plunge. It’s an expensive test to see if you can eliminate the wind noise and, hopefully, across multiple temperature zones (soggy and cold PNW with occasional very cold days; deep freeze midwest; baking hot Arizona and Texas; soggy and humid and sunbaked Florida and Louisiana). Getting any exterior product to work across all those variables is a complex engineering task and one that Ford’s supplier didn’t do well. When I traded my WT last month it was noisy AF. I’m wondering whether I’ll remove the roof at all on my Braptor, in hopes of limiting the opportunities for the roof seals to not line up properly when i put them back on. Moving from the WT to the Braptor made me realize how noisy my WT had become, from misaligned windows to creaky roof panels, it was a endless chatter going on down the road. The Braptor is lux car quiet by comparison. But given that it’s the same roof as on the WT, i expect it to get to the same noisy place in time.
if you see good results, and Ford makes limited improvements, i think many of us will swallow the cost of that ADV one-piece roof.
I can say that I absolutely know there are air leaks in the OEM top and I have tried multiple times to resolve them. Around town, it's no big deal. But when I head out for long trips which involve hours on interstates it gets a bit annoying, especially the whistling. Anyway, it makes logical sense that fewer pieces-parts would lead to fewer opportunities for air leaks. Advanced concepts interior sound deadening liner looks a bit more substantial as well.
I'll take one for the team and give it a whirl to see how it works. Hey, one benefit: it's black, not grey! Probably order end of next month as I am trying to built up funds so I don't need to finance it.
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