New Continental ContiSilent Tire Technology to Sharply Reduce Road Noise

Hello. After acustic trauma in june 2012 I got tinnitus, but hyperacusis too. And from this time, I hate driving my japanese car, because tyres induced road noise, especially in higher speed is too loud for me. I have to wear earplugs, but than i hear my tinnitus louder. (of course). But with new tyre technology -9 Db... well, it looks good.

http://elevatingsound.com/new-continental-contisilent-tire-technology-to-sharply-reduce-road-noise/

 

Thanks! That useful information.

 

Never really bothered me.

 

I would assume it is the same the world over but I find depending on the type of asphalt or mix that road contractors use has a real bearing on the road noise.
In NZ here there seems to be two textures or mixers that they use, one makes super loud road noise that I can't handle, is a near white or cream in color and the other seems relatively quiet in comparison and is a dark grey in color, of course when they tar seal the road there is little or next to no road noise at all!

Rich

 

Many factors. Type of car, how much sound deadening used, type of tires and size of tires.

My Subaru sits between 85-90db at 60mph with the clutch pushed in. Car had zero sound deadening and sport tires. My old 350z was 90-95db when rolling at 60mph. Big tires they were very grippy.

I've been wearing ear plugs for a long time while driving sportier cars.

Another thing to factor in is the condition of the tires. Honda had a massive recall on the civic due to the control arms being slightly out of spec causing tires to feather. Once a tire fathers the road noise goes way way up. My wife's civic was very loud, her tires had another 30k miles left on them but I had them changed out due to sound and wow was there a big difference in sound.

Anyone with T should look at getting a midsize car like a Accord or Camry or better. Make sure it has all season tires. At least in the states they have pretty good sound deadening. Civic and corolla... Not so much.