Does anyone else have a lot of road noise?

I know our tires aren't the meatiest, so that has something to do with it. But on the highway, or at high speeds, it's really loud. I have an 04, and it only has 15,000 miles on it.

Just wondering if this was normal for our cars.

 

The stock tires are like that

<3 Kumhos

 

Really? That sucks, I thought those tires were really good.

 

I have a 04' base with luvly 16" rims wrapped in Avon Tires. I dont hear much road noise but once I get past 100 some noise does kick in abit that and as it aproaches 120 (those FEW rare times ) car felt less attached to the road. Not sure if it was areo of our car or not but yeah next year upgrading tires along with a set of rims hehe. The Avon's I was told are Z rated to 150 and are All Seasonal to. grrr..

 

They give good performance, but the road noise usually kicks in around 12k miles for them. They're also going to be very uncomfortable later on.

 

Did you just rotate them? Thats when you will notice the noise. Its best to rotate every 5k. How is the wear, do you have a tred deept guage?

 

The tires are "Good" because they have a lot of grip for stock tires. But they get the grip by being really soft. This is why they wear out so quickly. Most people seem to get 12k to 20k before they start getting too worn out.

 

Odd. I never heard road noise from my stock tires

 

^you prolly have the dunlops instead of the potenzas domi

 

Like he said - they are good. They just get noisy as they wear down. By the time I got to 18K, mine were howling.

 

My '05 stock tires are Dunlop and they aren't overly noisy. But, I would not expect the cabin of a roadster/sports-car to be like a Lexus LS430, would you? If it is, it would not be a roadster anymore.

 

Mine (Bridgestone) are noisier with 14k than Nitto NT555's were on my FD at 30k.
Replacing them with PZero Neros. Hope that they do better.

 

those tires sucks!

 

Yup

 

I understand what you are saying, but my cabin is really loud. I can hear noise over the radio.

 

^ not normal.

 

Mine were very noisy(Potenzas) and I replace at 24k and at that time one tire was almost to the wear bars.

 

If u want a quieter and gentler riding RX-8, get the AVON high perf all season tires. I think they are like Avon 550's. Great stick and quiet, comfortable with long tread life.

 

I thought roadsters had ragtops??????