geforce

Anyone have these tires? I got them used together with a set of rims... and I find them irritably noisy!
After hearing it for a while though, I'm starting to wonder if the noise maybe from the tires or if it's wheel bearings or what...

Any other owners have noise problems with these tires?

kentr8561

I have them on my a4 for two years,very quiet and good handling,they wear good but they are more performance,nut a great seasonal tire.

geforce

I guess I really should get my wheel bearings checked out then... it's getting pretty loud, and I've always thought it was my tires because it started happening at around the same time I got them.

986Jim

Tires a lot of times get noisier after some use. Have a look at the inside of the tires. Are the blocks sawbladed as in one is high the other low? Sometimes you need to get on level ground and drive it on some dust or something so you can see what I'm talking about. This is the most common problems with tires that make them noisy. It happens a lot to cheap tires.

Here are the tires on my Boxster a few years ago after this happened to me. The tires were terrible and made a crap load of noise. As soon as I switched them out to some T1R's it was all good again.

In this pic you can see the dust on the top edge to the right, then not in the center or the next block, then on the top edge again and so on. The second block in nearer to the center you can see its every other there as well. That makes them like truck tires and WHRRRRRR ..... as apposed to Wheeee!!!