Yesterday I swapped my pretty worn nittos from the front with half-worn nittos from the back. These are one-directional tires, so I kept them to the same side. The car drives smoothly without wobbling or other bad sounds except for excessive tire noise. It seems maybe louder than brand new winter tires (not that you use them in Alabama!). It's ok until you get to low highway speeds and it just gets worse. Is this likely to go as the tires wear in a bit...?

Also, when changing the fuel filter if it's taking too long, do yourself a favor and get some air. I think I sniffed a bit too much gasoline yesterday

*UPDATE* Well, I rotated them back to how they were before. I inspected closer and the right front tire (original one) was slightly more worn on the inside than the out, so I think that when it was on the back, and the even good back tire was on the front there was an issue where the front and back were each running on basically half a tire width. Anyway it's back to normal now and great. I'll have to get the front ones replaced soon since they're quite badly worn and obviously get an alignment too

 

As tires wear they can definetely get noiser. I ran a set of Dunlop Sport A2's, and after about 20K the road noise was unbearable, made me think I had wheel bearing or axle problems. After replacing them I could not believe how much quieter it was!

 

Did you inspect the tires when you had them off?
Do you feel the steering wheel shaking at high speeds? (60mph+)

If they have worn down unevenly then they will make a lot of road noise. If it's really bad, the only way to fix it is to get new tires.

If you haven't had it done recently, you should have your wheels balanced.

 

I inspected briefly and they seem to have worn pretty evenly. There is no shaking or loss of control or anything up to 85, which is as fast as I went. The noise is non existent until around 50 and it's subtle up to about 70 and then it skyrockets and sounds really loud. I may have to rotate them back to how they were before and buy new fronts.

 

Ya definitely noise from worn tires...

 

skoorb, are you the same guy from anadtech?

 

I am the same guy from AT. I think it's got to be bad tires too, but how come there was no sound problem before? The more worn tires are now on the back and I'm sure the sound is from the front :O

 

i had the same prob today so what i did to fix it was just spun the tires(did a little burnout) a couple times about a second each and that seemed to fix it not all the way but now i cant here it more than i could before i rotated them


Peace