Originally Posted by jason2713
well I just bought rims with NITTO tires to replace the ones on my 2003 accord ex...I dont really tel the difference, but it also might be because of my LOUD ASS STEREO SYSTEM! haha..
no seriously, 300 miles on the stock tires that's insane to get rid of them. Is it really that noticable? Road noise also can happen because of the road conditions, not necessarily the tires. Maybe the roads you commute on are not the greatest? I notice some parts of my highways are more bouncy and thought maybe because it was making my steering wheel jump I had a crack in my rim, or the balancing was out, or the alignment was out. But it only happened in certain spots and found it to be just the road condition. I dunno what else to tell you...cuz the stock tires have a thick side wall and should be able to at least dampen the worst roads.
All things being equal, as i said it's not really much if at all better than my civic. The roads i drive vary from one extreme to the other. But what really hit home was that more than one person said that the tires tend to get much louder as soon as you hit a section where the road isn't quite as good. Thats exactly what i notice. I don't mean going from smooth to a very bad section. It could be going from a section of road thats 20% worse, yet the tires will get 75% louder. In other words, the slightest loss of smoothness in the road equates to a huge jump in road noise. Far more so than i noticed in my civic.