Hello
I bought a new set of tires a couple of months ago and when they were first mounted on my car they were really loud. They made a loud humming noise that seemed to get louder as I increased speed. Well I assumed it was my new tires just needing to break in. Its been about 3 months now and they still make the noise.

Heres the catch though...I swapped the rims that had the new tires on them with my old rims with old tires to be sure that the noise was really coming from the new tires. The sound was still there. The weird part is that I dont remember hearing this sound before I got the new tires. Could this be a suspension/brake/drivetrain problem? (It sounds like it mainly comes from the rear of the car.)

Anyone have any ideas of what the problem may be? Its really annoying...it gets so loud on the highway that it drowns my exhaust out. Its driving me nuts.

BTW the new tires are 195/60/14s on HX rims and my car is lowered about 2 inches.

Any ideas would be much apprietiated
Mike.

 

Shit I forgot to delete the coming in the topic title. If an admin can do this please fix. Thanks.

 

You might just have a tread pattern that makes for more noise than others....my best friend and I both have Nitto tires.....but I have the 450s and hes got the 555s......his are 10 times louder than mine. Plus the lowering puts you lower to the ground and makes it a bit more noisy.....at least it did that with my Integra.

 

maybe you got spray paint from ur hubcaps on ur brakes.
hehe j/k

 

Sounds like you have personal experience.

 

hey whats up what kind of exhaust do u have does it still do it if so tell me if when u are driving and u rev up the engine if it gets louder cause i had a sound like that and it was a tiny exhaust leak causeing a nasty humming sound when u start to go but good luck with that

 

Hey Jon
Thanks for the insight. Sounds like it is a wheel bearing problem because when Im driving in a straight line and turn the wheel slightly to the left the humming goes completely away. Silent. Go straight again and its back.

So is this just a matter of replacing the wheel bearing? Would it be a good idea to replace the wheel bearings on all four wheels? The sound seems like it only comes from the rear...can I probably get away with just replacing the rear wheels bearings? Would I get these wheel bearings from hondaland?

My cars alignment is slightly off too so Ill probably get an alignment real soon. Does it matter what I do first (alignment/replacement of bearings)?

Thanks Jon.

Thanks for everyones input.