Help me reduce road noise (using dynamat possibly)

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
sell car, buy a Volvo. sad how so many cars can't even do what even old Volvos have been doing right.

Fixed.

 

[FoBoT]

buy a different car

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: DurocShark

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
sell car, buy a Volvo. sad how so many cars can't even do what even old Volvos have been doing right.

Fixed.

Volvo for safety, camry for mileage.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

new tires are a good start imo.......theyre wats in contact with the road so id start their, toyo proxes or bridgestone potenza's have really slick looking treads very quiet

 

Tires as everyone else has mentioned. If you fail to heed this advise, you are a fool and doomed to be a fool forever.

The best way to reduce noise is to remove all the internal door panels and dynamat them.

 

[flot]

As everyone else said, tires.

I just replaced the tires on my durango, and I was amazed at how much quieter it was. I didn't even realize I had significant road noise before (generally speaking, it is a quiet ride) but as soon as the new ones went on I was like "wow.. it's so quiet..." Some of this is tire brand, some of this is new tire vs old tire.

As for dynamat, if you use the "real" dynamat, it will cost you upwards of $500 to do it right. There are plenty of cheap imitations that work just as well. However, there are a lot of different kinds of noise and different things you'd need to do / apply for each one.

Generally speaking, it is NOT an easy task, unless you can isolate a specific area of the car (IE the trunk or the engine bay) that is causing most of the noise and just try to solve that one problem.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: DurocShark

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
sell car, buy a Volvo. sad how so many cars can't even do what even old Volvos have been doing right.

Fixed.

Volvo for safety, camry for mileage.

and camry for silence. even in the early 90's they deadened the noise many other vehicles just let in. its like dude.. u gotta deaden it or its gonna @%# with your soundsystem.

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: dullard
Step 1) Sell Pontiac.
Step 2) Buy non Pontiac. Honda and Toyota are usually very quiet as well as other companies.
Step 3) ...
Step 4) Profit.

the vibe is a re-badged toyota. so much for that bright idea.

 

[TechnoKid]

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
Found the noise ratings.

Goodyear assurance confortread and Goodyear assurance tripletread rated highly.

For sound, the comforttraed won with a 9.3. tripletread slightly worse at 8.9

Based on numbers, the comforttread is the winner if performance is ignored. I can get better performance out of hte tripletreads, but I really don't care for that. I think I have a winner!

Imo, there are better tires choices than the ComforTred; the ComforTred are a regular all season tire, with a B temperature rating. And you are paying $92 for that in a 205/55/16, the price for them at your local dealer could be even more. Tires from tirerack you gotta pay shipping and then you gotta pay to get each one mounted and balanced. Trying to pricematch at a local dealer is a better option imo, plus you get roadhazard benifits inlcuded instead of paying seperate like on tirerack.

There are a couple tires that are less expensive, have a better temp rating, a better traction rating (thoug either A or AA are both good ratings) and have fantastic reviews from people on tirerack and are quite good in the noise ratings. The BFGoodrich Traction T/A H are one of them.

of course this is just my opinion.