[Tcoat]

OK, so I am going to start this post with an apology to all the guys I thought were crazy for saying the road noise is bad!


My revelation:
I have snows on the car for longer than I have summer tires. They were as noisy as hell and I expected that but they were also hiding something from me. The vast majority of my driving is done on major Canadian highways that are paved with relatively smooth asphalt. This week I had the summers put back on and breathed a huge sigh of relief as things quieted right down to a whisper again.
Then I took my weekly trip to Detroit (first one on the summer tires), hit the Interstate and all hell broke loose! That grooved concrete you guys use for the highways there is noisier with the summers than the snows. Even the "good" sections were loud as hell. It would get on my nerves pretty quick if I had to drive that every day and sound proofing would be very quickly included in my plans. I was never so glad to get back where even the occasional concrete section of road was not nearly as horrid as those Interstates were.