Noisy tyres

[BillD.]

Here's a strange thing. I have had an increasing 'droning' noise from the rear of my Audi A4 Avant. Working in an industry that uses a lot of bearings and being familiar with the sound of one on its way out, I was convinced it was a noisy bearing, so have booked car in for service and attention to rear bearing. I also decided to swop tyres from front (more worn) to rear to even up the wear and improve traction to the drive wheels. (Not diagonal as they are handed) Now here's the strange bit, the noise has transferred to the front, it is also more obvious as you would expect and becomes annoying after a while, it sounds what driving an army land rover must be like.

What puzzles me is if it is just a characteristic of tread noise at a certain wear point, why did it not occur on the front tyres when they reached the same wear point as the rear ones?

In nearly 50 years of driving I have never come across this before, anyone else experienced this and what was the reason?

Bill D.

 

[forestgump]

long shot but we have thi prob with heavey haulage and cranes found that tyres were warped in fact egg shaped or a boulged

 

[SirRogerFFS]

Bill D

You havnt by any chance had some re tread tyres fitted?

Sir Roger

 

[Leo2]

Good evening,

Sir Roger Fartington Fortesque Smyth,

you must be related to my old friend ,

Fartamelia Farquarharson

 

[dougie201]

Hi Bill

I get the same noise from my tyres, gets worse as they get worn which i think is quite a good thing. But only get this on the rear for some reason. Fit new tyres and noise is gone . Only thing i can think of is its to do with the tyre tread and being low profile.

Dougie.....

 

[BillD.]

My tyres are the original as bought with the car new 18 months ago.

Tyres are Dunlop SP sport Maxx. Looking on VW/Audi forum other people had same problem when Dunlops changed to A.N other make... or is it a case of just having new tyres of whatever make gets rid of the noise until they wear down to the same point again.

As dougie said this only happened on the rear tyres, the front, as you would expect, wore down quicker than the rears but did not have the same problem when they reached the same wear point that the rears are now.

 

[BillD.]

Sorry should have read, 'other people had the same problem with Dunlops but this disappeared when changed...'

Bill D.