Originally Posted by dazco

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.