A few weeks ago I rotated my tires and right after I start noticing abnormally high road noise at 50mph and above. Almost like a droning noise on the freeway. It is really annoying to say the least.
I did some research and its either the tire itself of a wheel bearing. So I looked up some symptoms of wheel bearings going bad and did some self diagnostic...
1.) With the car in the air, I get *no* play if I hold at 12 and 6 on the tire and try to wiggle it back the forth. Solid as can be that I can tell.
2.) Taking turns at higher speeds to put weight on one side or the other side of the car does little to nothing for the noise. The passenger front is making the noise from what I can tell, and when corning left or right heavily the noise is consistent.
3.) I just demounted the tire today and checked the tread... An even 6/32 across the tire. Nothing abnormal. Air pressure is the same in all tires I have been using for years.
So I am guessing maybe this is just a noisy tire? They are General Altimax HP's and have been quite quiet up until I rotated them. If still noise after my remount I may put that tire back where it was and see if the noise goes away.
Does this sound like it may be a wheel bearing or just a noisy tire? My last tires (Falken 912's) got loud at the end of their life and I ended up replacing them at around 4/32... But it was weird just how suddenly my General's got so loud. They have been fairly quiet up until now.
Thanks!
I did some research and its either the tire itself of a wheel bearing. So I looked up some symptoms of wheel bearings going bad and did some self diagnostic...
1.) With the car in the air, I get *no* play if I hold at 12 and 6 on the tire and try to wiggle it back the forth. Solid as can be that I can tell.
2.) Taking turns at higher speeds to put weight on one side or the other side of the car does little to nothing for the noise. The passenger front is making the noise from what I can tell, and when corning left or right heavily the noise is consistent.
3.) I just demounted the tire today and checked the tread... An even 6/32 across the tire. Nothing abnormal. Air pressure is the same in all tires I have been using for years.
So I am guessing maybe this is just a noisy tire? They are General Altimax HP's and have been quite quiet up until I rotated them. If still noise after my remount I may put that tire back where it was and see if the noise goes away.
Does this sound like it may be a wheel bearing or just a noisy tire? My last tires (Falken 912's) got loud at the end of their life and I ended up replacing them at around 4/32... But it was weird just how suddenly my General's got so loud. They have been fairly quiet up until now.
Thanks!