Door Operating Sound Improvement based on Jury Testing and System Analysis

Door opening and closure sounds are an important factor influencing the quality impression received from a vehicle. These sounds are often the first ones a customer hears when examining a car in a showroom or exhibition. Therefore car manufacturers attach increasing importance to door sound design. Even in the luxury car segment, large differences between door sounds are observed. But how should a good car door sound like? And, even more challenging, how to make its sound good? In this paper, methods and technologies are summarized that can help answer these questions. door sound benchmarking (e.g. comparison with competitors)