If you read my other post about the wheel blowing out, you know I just got new Konig wheels put on.

I had my stock tires mounted on the new wheels, but the interesting thing is, I think there is slightly more road noise now.

Can this be possible by just changing the wheel, even though the tire is the same?

Thanks.


P.S. My stock 02/03 GLE wheels (3 of them) are for sale now, see Classified section.

 

sorry for the long post.

Are the specs on the wheel exactly the same? I'm not too familiar with wheel/tire combos but if the wheel is slightly larger this may have an affect on it.

ex...I was running 36x12.50x15 tires on my truck on a 10.5x15 wheel and when I changed wheels later on to a 12x15 and the tire seemed flatter on top (sidewall bulge was decreased) and it had slightly more noise. But I was quite used to noise with these tires as the tires were the only things I could hear while driving.

so it is possible to have more road noise by just changing the wheels. Also...when changing/rotating tires like that, it's a good thing to keep all of the tires going in the same direction as they were before. So you wouldn't take tires from the passenger side and move them to the driver side.

 

Yeah, all specs are the same.
I kept the same size wheel 17 by 7
and the stock tires.
They were professionally mounted so I doubt they put the tires on in the wrong direction.

It's just a bit weird. Maybe it has to do something with the fact the new wheels are 5 pounds lighter (each) than the stock ones. Or maybe it's acoustics are different so it "echos" the road noise a bit more.

I don't know, but I'm sure there is a bit more road noise now than there was with the stock wheels.

I was just wondering if it truely IS possible and if anybody else has noticed this when changing wheels?

 

it can be that the wheels are lighter, so there is more vibration transmitted into the suspension from the tiny imperfections in the road.

also, what are the air pressure differences? if the shop put more air pressure in them than before, they can make more noise as well. I've noticed a lot more road noise with my tires at 45psi (track days) than with them at 28 psi (street pressures).