Hi,
I’ve lived with increased tyre noise for a while now - quite high pitched so not your usual low rumbling - mainly coming from the front driver side, and much less so from the drivers rear. Day to day I've tried to analyse the noise, noticing it is pretty much always there but only quiet on the smoothest newest tarmac, every other road is so noisy and because of the frequency audible over even loud music.
A week ago I swapped out this tyre with the space saver and the noise virtually disappeared, so I thought that probably pinpoints the problem. However today I did a diagonal swap from driver front to passenger rear and the exact same noise is back in the same place. No difference whatsoever.
Am I being a bit stupid, or is is safe to assume that I've just got crap tyres - i.e. no matter how I swap them around I'm still going to end up with the same noises? The space saver was just so quiet, and I'm itching to get some proper Audi approved Pirelli tyres on. The current batch are Barum 235/35/19s.
At £140 each the Pirelli's are not cheap but they must surely be better than the Barums?!
Thanks in advance for any guidance you can give!
I’ve lived with increased tyre noise for a while now - quite high pitched so not your usual low rumbling - mainly coming from the front driver side, and much less so from the drivers rear. Day to day I've tried to analyse the noise, noticing it is pretty much always there but only quiet on the smoothest newest tarmac, every other road is so noisy and because of the frequency audible over even loud music.
A week ago I swapped out this tyre with the space saver and the noise virtually disappeared, so I thought that probably pinpoints the problem. However today I did a diagonal swap from driver front to passenger rear and the exact same noise is back in the same place. No difference whatsoever.
Am I being a bit stupid, or is is safe to assume that I've just got crap tyres - i.e. no matter how I swap them around I'm still going to end up with the same noises? The space saver was just so quiet, and I'm itching to get some proper Audi approved Pirelli tyres on. The current batch are Barum 235/35/19s.
At £140 each the Pirelli's are not cheap but they must surely be better than the Barums?!
Thanks in advance for any guidance you can give!