earplugs

[agnoraan]

Might be a bit of a stupid question, but what earplugs do you use when in your car?? I'm looking for something that drowns out the wind noise, but doesn't render me deaf at the same time.

Nige

[nikbj68]

I have the foam type ones (exactly like the ones supplied by work... ) for my passengers, but I tend to use ordinary personal stereo headphones

[Paul Blore]

Selina and I use an intercom system with over the ear headsets.

Paul

[Roger King]

Quick medical aside - earplugs are a very good idea in cars like these, especially open ones. Noise is not the main issue, important though noise protection is - the damage is caused by rapid air movement across the outer ear. This reduces pressure in the external auditory canal and thereby produces outwards pressure on the eardrum, damaging it. Speaking as one who is getting increasingly hacked off (and deaf) with his tinnitus, take precautions!! - although mine has a lot to do with 40 years of 500,000rpm dental turbines, largely unsilenced petrol engines and years of sitting in the middle of the heavy brass section of symphony orchestras and big bands.

[Migge]

Can't understand you

[Roger King]

Can't understand you

Pardon?

[agnoraan]

Can't understand you

Pardon?

Did somebody say something??

[Roger King]

Can't understand you

Pardon?

Did somebody say something??

About half-past two.

[agnoraan]

Pardon?

Did somebody say something??

About half-past two.

What was that Rog??,... tooth hurty??

[PeterT]

I am deaf and wear 2 hearing aids, having done so for over 10 years now. My wife, a retired community paediatrician who specialised in audiology, suggested I talk to the audiologists in the audiology department of Kidderminster hospital where I have been treated extremely efficiently for many years,and ask them what they suggested for ear-plugs when I had my BRA 289. They had no hesitation in saying we can make up a pair of ear-plugs especially for your situation but it will cost you, as the NHS do not consider the wonderful noise of V8s as their responsibility. For the sum of £80 I now have professionally produced ear-plugs moulded to my peculiar ears which restrict both wind and engine noise but do not completely block all noise. The noise from my rebuilt MGC Sebring engine is very much an acquired taste after the mellow tone of the Buick V8 in the BRA and my ear-plugs have helped me come to terms with it... but it did take a little time!