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Hey i just bought some new tyres and damn are they noisy. with my old ones which were wasted you did hear alittle bit of that ticking sound now its louder with these tyres. any maintenance tips to help the noise decrease or go away?? Correct me if im wrong but seems to be abit better when the tyres are warmed up abit.

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Hey i just bought some new tyres and damn are they noisy. with my old ones which were wasted you did hear alittle bit of that ticking sound now its louder with these tyres. any maintenance tips to help the noise decrease or go away?? Correct me if im wrong but seems to be abit better when the tyres are warmed up abit.

new tyres should be quiet, generally as tyres get older they will be noisier (wear, tread goes hard etc)

what tyres are they? did u get them brand new or second hand?

were they balanced when u put them on? i have found that i had a bit of noise at freeway speeds with my old tyres and so i got them rebalanced and it went away.

i just got new tyres today and my car feels like a limo compared to before :ban::D:P

What a load of horse @$#@! Why post if you have no idea what you're spouting! :blink:

The only time you should ever run less presure in the rear than the front is in a drag situation with the right tyres and suspension set up to handle it.

For tyres of that staggered size front to rear on the street, I'd recommend 36psi in the front and 38psi in the rears for even tyre wear, best handling and best fuel economy. 40 and above is too much and too rougher ride for the street plus at those pressures and your width of tyre it's highly likely that you'll get over inflation wear.

On to you problem at present. Your tyres, although being of the cheaper (nastier) variety, they should be quiet when new especially being new, balanced and wheel aligned! So i'd be heavily leaning towards rear wheel bearings!

With new tyres eliminating the old tyre growl you can now hear the wheel bearings. You typically hear them at highway speed as they're spinning at high speed making them more audible.

I'd jack the rear of your car up so your rear wheels are off the ground, sit the rear on jack stands and chock your front wheels and spin the rear wheels up to 100km/h and I'll bet you hear the growl still

Hope that helps :(

Edited by ellie

hahah nah I take too much care of my car to do stupid stuff in gravel carparks. i'll check rocks and stuff. after some further research they said these tyres are known to be loud so yeh great. As soon as they go bald im going for some toyo's :cheers:

hahah nah I take too much care of my car to do stupid stuff in gravel carparks. i'll check rocks and stuff. after some further research they said these tyres are known to be loud so yeh great. As soon as they go bald im going for some toyo's :D

I wonder how they'll go bald??? ;)

lots of sensible driving. Yeh the noise of the tyre is annoying. Im thinking of just changing them. Just a warning to you guys dont buy these brand tyres noisy az. I wonder why tyres do make the ticking sound its just crap hehe.

you can also hear it when like doin 60km/h also but once you drive for a while the tickin sound seems to go cause the tyres warm up. But for the time they are ticking embarrassing cause its like people think something wrong with ur car. should of stuck with the pirellis or did some research as people say they are loud as tyres. didnt think new tyres could be loud i guess its the compound or whatever.

I have never heard any tyre noises in my life..

Even on the shitty camry with new tyres and even old tyres which are bald ass..

I got pirellies (whateva spelling) on the camry and no noise!!

hmm as for pressure, always best of a 30-32 combo..

^^^^ Just about all tyres are noisy buggers. When you are fairly close to a major road, the first thing you notice is the tyre noise. After a few hundred metres you tend not to notice the engine / exhaust noise, but the tyre noise always carries a long distance.

As for ticking, I would be inclinded to think that there was a nail or screw in the tyre. Sometimes they are hard to see too, and you sometimes need to take the wheel off the car to easily tell where the nail / screw is.

Ticking might also be from brake pad wear indicators (strange but it could be). Dude tyre noise is NOT a ticking noise. Its quite posible these tryes are actually quieter, and you are now hearing another noise that was previously masked.

BTW, I run 38psi front, 36psi rear and have PERFECT tyre wear, took me 6months to work it out tho. I think it depends on the car and your driving style.

heheh also the pressure depends on the tyres you have!!

I had some shitty 205s on my car ages ago.. Anyways even with 30psi, i was spinnin in 1st,2nd and 3rd.. with a stock car!!

even set at 25psi, it was shit.. just kicked out easily..

Anyways back on topic.. next time i drive im gonna try n hear my tyres lol..

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