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Originally Posted by BrianMSmith
The RE050A stock tires are horribly loud. I am hoping a different choice in tires will quiet it down significantly. Anyone?
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That's a design feature.
Summer tires (Potenzas) have as smooth a tread design as possible, the idea being to keep maximum rubber in contact with the road surface. But this will increase the thrumming (booming) and pinging going over expansion joints.
If you really don't like it, you can try spraying goop in the rear wheel wells and having closed-cell foam in the interior cabin under the carpet. (Think: multiple layers of different sound-absorbing materials.)
But what you're really asking for is a G37. Or, if you go down to the Z non-sport version, your tires will be an inch narrower and correspondingly less noisy (and sticky).