Quietest Tires for M35 Sport Wheels?

[nordy]

Yep it's that time for tires, I have been reading some earlier threads about which tires people reccomend. However I don't care about performance but quietness from my car, I live in Florida and have a Shelby Mustang for performance and rely on my M Sport for daily driving to work and back, the roads are not the most silent around here.

What do people reccomend in regards to lower DB road noise? I was thinking about the Toyo T1S as I have used them before and they faired well. The REO50's are so loud when they wear and I am not sure I want to pay so much money for these over priced tires. From looking at Tire Rack, their reviews are based on differing tire sizes which doesn't really tell a consumer how that specific tire will work on such a rim as our Sport Rims.

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks

[xerexabante]

Nitto INVO or Yokohama S-Drive I love these 2 I would highly recommend

[yblegall]

I have the BFG KDW 2 tires on my stock 19" sport wheels from my 07 m45 as well as my custom 20" wheels and I love them, I originally bought them for performance and looks, but as I drive on them, I notice how quiet and comfortable the ride is....kinda pricey especially for a staggered setup, but IMO well worth it.

[nordy]

I have the BFG KDW 2 tires on my stock 19" sport wheels from my 07 m45 as well as my custom 20" wheels and I love them, I originally bought them for performance and looks, but as I drive on them, I notice how quiet and comfortable the ride is....kinda pricey especially for a staggered setup, but IMO well worth it.

Wow dude! Thats pretty brave as I have the same tires on my GT500 and I only bought them for dry weather grip and some good fun at the track. I am suprized you like them on the M as I think these are the loudest tires I have ever owned. Each to his own, especially if you have your radio on

I purely want refinement and comfort, no grip needed for turning corners just silence....

[maxnix]

A lot of people have never driven a properly functioning all independent suspension with top tier performance tires. If a tire gets noisy as it wears, either the algnment is out of specifiecation, or the tires were not rotated and flipped frequently enough, or the tires are just not strong enough for the demands of the car and its suspension.

Personally, my favorite are the PS2. They are quiet untihl the end, supremely comfortable, incredible in the wet and dry. They are not inexpensive.

Don't know if it makes a whole lot of sense to compromise safety which is performance for low initial decibels. While not all good performing tires are noisey, the PS2 show that excellent performing tires may be quiet.

Also, I have ridden in seveal cars with new KDW tires, and usually while not loud, neither would I call them quiet. I have never ridden in any car with KDW with 10K miles that were not noisey, some to the point of pain.

[Q45tech]

Unfortunately hearing frequency response and sensitivity varies greatly.Commenting about tire noise demands acoustic test equipment so that things have a reference number.

What is loud to one is quiet to another. Tires interact with road surfaces and noise level will depend on road designs which vary from area to area and state to state.

States must compomise road quietness with road life. The noiser the design usually the longer the road lasts before needing resurfacing [hardness of asphalt and concrete].

http://findarticles.com/p/arti...73722

"Above 60 kph, tyre noise dominates over other noise sourcesfor almost all vehicles""Little is known about how a tyre performs over time, but the current trend for many tyres is thought to be for the noise level to increase as the tread wears down (Sandberg and Ejsmont, 2002). If this relationship is correct, then tyre noise will tend to increase slowly over much of the life of a tyre. A type approval test where a tyre has covered a certain distance (e.g. when worn to 50%) would therefore be more representative of the tyre noise that might be expected to be generated from the tyre over its useful life."

97 page EU engineering report on tire/road noise:http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/road...eport

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/enviro...e.htm