|
|
|
|
|
|
Welcome to the Australian Ford Forums forum. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and inserts advertising. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members, respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features without post based advertising banners. Registration is simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us. Please Note: All new registrations go through a manual approval queue to keep spammers out. This is checked twice each day so there will be a delay before your registration is activated. |
|
|||||||
 |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
31-05-2006, 09:58 PM
|
#1 | ||
|
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Victoria
Posts: 551
|
Picked up the new Zetec today, very nice in black, kinda classy.
A much better drive than the AU Ghia. What's with the tyre noise tho? Anyone changed tyres yet? Did this help? Need more grunt already too.... |
||
|
|
|
31-05-2006, 10:48 PM
|
#2 | ||
|
Clio 182 CUP!
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Inner West, Sydney
Posts: 2,590
|
Haha,
In that case - go back to the dealer and get the XR5T tomorrow.... Welcome, and congrats on the new car!
__________________
------------- Steven 'In fact, so good is the Clio 182 with the Cup chassis set-up that I feel moved to make a bold statement - I think it's the best hot hatch ever built.' (EVO Jan 04) |
||
|
|
|
|
01-06-2006, 06:50 AM
|
#3 | ||
|
Giddy up.
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Kramerica Industries.
Posts: 15,638
|
Any pic's to come ?.
|
||
|
|
|
|
01-06-2006, 10:19 AM
|
#4 | |||
|
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Brisbane North
Posts: 1,994
|
Quote:
Dont work as well on our rougher roads... change of tyre will certainly help 
|
|||
|
|
|
|
01-06-2006, 10:23 AM
|
#5 | ||
|
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Wollongong
Posts: 625
|
tyre noise can be forgotten without changing tyres, i suggest loud music and a larger exhaust, the standard tyres grip well i wouldn't suggest changing them until you have to
|
||
|
|
|
|
01-06-2006, 08:54 PM
|
#6 | ||
|
Regular Member
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Queensland, Australia
Posts: 168
|
big mags wif a lil' engine = road noise
__________________
Current car: 2022 Escape st-line - Previous Fords: 2006 Focus, 2009 FG XR6T, 2009 Focus, 2012 Focus, 2016 Territory |
||
|
|
|
|
01-06-2006, 09:17 PM
|
#7 | |||
|
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Brisbane North
Posts: 1,994
|
Quote:
Or is this a myth to send into myth busters
|
|||
|
|
|
|
01-06-2006, 09:20 PM
|
#8 | |||
|
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Wollongong
Posts: 625
|
Quote:
|
|||
|
|
|
|
02-06-2006, 01:00 AM
|
#9 | ||
|
Regular Member
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 368
|
Theres an old chinese proverb that goes something like:
When man hears wheels making noise, music is not as loud as it should be. |
||
|
|
|
|
02-06-2006, 10:18 AM
|
#10 | ||
|
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
You can also try some sound deadener around the rear wheel arches and under the boot carpet, as well as under the rear seats. I find a lot of the road noise coming from the floor of the hatch.
|
||
|
|
|
02-06-2006, 04:37 PM
|
#11 | ||
|
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Victoria
Posts: 551
|
Het thanks guys, I will have a rear passenger listen around to see if the noise can be hidden easy...
Other than that small issue I'm very happy with the car, looks ok, goes ok, even smells ok... for the moment AND it uses exactly HALF the fuel as the AU Faimont. |
||
|
|
|
|
02-06-2006, 04:46 PM
|
#12 | |||
|
mmmm...chocolate...
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 95
|
Quote:
is that from confuscious? my dads zetec tends to make more road noise than my CL...he reckons its the fact that his tyres are wider hence more road being covered...hmmm...maybe just buy some earplugs!
__________________
astra is nice...too bad its a holden corolla is okay...too bad its boring mazda3 would've been good but nothing comes as close as the focus! |
|||
|
|
|
|
02-06-2006, 07:37 PM
|
#13 | |||
|
Regular Member
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 368
|
Quote:
|
|||
|
|
|
|
04-06-2006, 05:28 PM
|
#14 | ||
|
Just Beginning
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 13
|
Louder music, definately, that covers up the slight rattle on the rear passenger door trim too...
Can't imagine the road noise on the 20s, Zetec20... |
||
|
|
|
|
04-06-2006, 09:05 PM
|
#15 | ||
|
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Wollongong
Posts: 625
|
lol the road noise is much less of a hassle then the ride quality, oh and as for tyres... i've just order 2 new falkens... $730.....
|
||
|
|
|
|
07-06-2006, 09:44 PM
|
#16 | ||
|
Zoom Zoom
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Melbourne, VIC
Posts: 4,352
|
Tyre related road noise is officially caused by an agressive/bulky tread pattern and the air trying to escape and not making it out in time. Quieters tyres are both smaller/narrower and usually less aggressive in design. Heaps of things affexct it, but that's most of it.
Where tyre noise goes further is when the rest of the car also conducts/resonates the noise, something the Mazda 3 and Focus have been noted by Wheels mag as doing, the Focus less so than the 3. Must be something in the design, no idea what. I highly doubt it's the tyre choice, since they were also standard on the LR Focus and a very pleasant tyre to drive on. The LS would be affected both by its bigger rims/tyres and perhaps some other part of the structure. Either way, I don't think changing from the Eagle NCT5's will fix it, they're a decent quiet touring tyre. Not the grippiest thing, but perfectly adequate enough and great in the wet from memory.
__________________
2012 Mazda3 MPS
 |
||
|
|
|
New Focus Zetec
Linear Mode
