Reducing road noise in a 2015

[mpscotia]

I still really enjoy our '15 SV, but was wondering if anyone has done anything to help reduce road noise? We do a lot of highway driving twice a week and find a lot of the road noise comes from the hatch area and saw that there is nothing to deaden the sound in the spare tire well/area and maybe that may be a place to start.
Has anyone tried putting some dynamat (or similar) around that area, and if so did you notice if the noise was reduced at all?

Thoughts of suggestions?
Thanks!

[johnnybeerotten]

I haven't noticed that our 2015 is particularly noisy on the highway. I don't have any direct experience with Dynamat but several acquaintances have had good luck with it. I would suspect that portion of the body would be a good place to start. On a somewhat related note, I replaced the OEM Dunlop tires with Nokian WRG3 tires at about 800 km, as I did not want to have to do the seasonal tire change on the Rogue, and I found that they generated so little additional noise over the all seasons that it's not worth mentioning.

[phjake]

Interesting since my 2015 Rogue SV is very quiet on the highway. The SV OEM tires are Hankook DynaPro HT RH12 P225/65/17.

[mpscotia]

We have the stock Goodyear Assurance Fuel Max and there's definitely more road noise coming from back than I would like (not to mention that darn squeaky moon roof!). I'm starting to think it's more the tires than anything, but didn't think it could hurt throwing some sound deadener in the spare tire well.

I did a quick bit of googling, and the Fuel Max's seem to be noisy tires. *grumble*..

[phjake]

According to Tire Rack reviews the best riding/lowest noise tires for my 2015 Rogue SV in the OEM size (p225/65/17) are Goodyear Assurance Comfortread Touring. While I'm happy with my Hankooks, I will buy these when it's time to replace.

[ImStricken06]

one of the biggest reasons the 1st generation rogues were loud, is because nissan cut corners and never installed splash guards in the rear wheel wells. all the moving air, tire noise, & rain water causes a ton of noise.

[slimsol]

Try lowering your seat position. When I used to drive my rogue i heard lot of road noise on highway but when i sat on passenger seat or back seat, there was no noise. I am tall and my seat were at highest position so my head was close to roof and i heard lot of turbulence noise. I lowered my driver seat position and that noise is gone

[mpscotia]

A quick little update: I noticed that we had quite the vibration you could see in the rear seats when on the highway (I'm not the primary driver, and usually only drive with the kids in the back). We took it in, and they checked the tires and re-balanced them all and that seemed to have quieted it down a little bit. I'll still look at adding some sound deadening back there, but I didn't think tires being a little bit off balance would have made such an additional noise. The Rogue was tracking fine, but with no one else occupying the seats I really noticed the jiggling.

[K03sport]

there is sound deadner (dynamat/boommat) and there are sound absorbers (closed/open cell foam). the sound deadners reduce the "ping" or vibration characteristics of the metal they are attached to. contrary to popular belief, these products were never meant to cover the entire metal panel, just 3-4 inch square for every 12 inch square. Using more does not improve the performance in proportion to the amount of material used. Most of the time, the product is applied in an "overkill" fashion.

The sound absorbers are usually thicker open/closed cell foam mats and are usually thicker than the sound deadener. The absorber is applied in larger quantities and over a greater area for maximum sound absorption properties. When both products are used in conjunction with each other, you will get the maximum benefit of both sound/panel deadening and sound absorption. Here are some websites to help you decided. Also, check Amazon and YouTube as there are many many people out there willing to share their stories/experiences. Just avoid the cheap, home improvement store, solution, aka "Peel and Seal" roofing sealer.

Hope you can learn from the below links. Just keep in mind, their mission is to sell you their product.
BoomMat Home: http://www.designengineering.com//boommat
HushMat: http://hushmat.com/
FatMAt: http://www.fatmat.com/shop/
Dynamat: http://www.dynamat.com/automotive-and-t ... car-audio/