Just about to purchase four new tyres for my NC, and have been recommended the Good Year Eagle F1 Assy 6 with a noise level of 69db
Has anyone fitted these tyres? Are there any more recommendations for tyres with low road noise?
Many thanks
Russ
I think a low road noise tyre will be lost with all the other noises going off in a car such as ours, top up or down.
Search the forum for recommendations, itās awash with tried and tested brands and folks favourites.
I had these fitted to replace Bridgestones,and found them far more comfortable and quieter.
BTW: The db rating refers to external noise I think, rather than that transmitted into the car.
I fitted Continental Premium Contact 6 to my 25AE and the big reduction in road noise compared with that from the aged Potenzas was amazing. A classic example of soft new grippy rubber vs brittle slippery old.
However we both now become much more aware of the different types of road surface, some are almost silent others very noisy. Potenzas were almost uniformly noisy!
We previously noticed the same effect on the Mazda3, going from noisy Toyo Nano energy to Continental Premium Contact 5. The big surprise here was the mpg improving by an average of 6%.
āHowever we both now become much more aware of the different types of road surface, some are almost silent others very noisy. Potenzas were almost uniformly noisyā
Most of the time itās the type of road surface. Iāve noticed an increase in surface dressing just lately (that time of year) spray and go I call it, leave the vehicles to spread it around.
I was on a particular stretch of motorway coming from the Lakes earlier this month, canāt remember where, even my wife commented, isnāt nice and quiet and smooth on this section.
If youāve ever been up the A50 between Derby and Stoke youāll know how bad road noise can get, itās horrendous, concrete 
Noisy car anyway Iāve got pilot sports I doubt anything else would make a noticeable difference
I need to get to a audiologist asap. Iāve read stuff like this often, and I find the 69db rated POtenzas not noisy at all, and found zero difference when I replaced them with brand new ones.
In each ND I tried I found the tyre noise is much less noticeable. So you are already on the right part of the curve.
However, I was also doing relative measurements in both my NCs with a cheap little noise meter to find seal air-leaks and panel resonances; chasing different rabbits down randomly different holes, with and without an assistant. Generally chaotic.
I canāt give you absolute tyre noise figures because I was unable to do a scientific A-B test with like-for-like conditions mainly because the time scales were so long, assistant often busy elsewhere, and for the current NC I had added significant noise reduction before the Contis arrived from Germany, so the conditions were different.
But the key point now is for that most surfaces I can listen to the music without the amp clipping; impossible with the Potenzas.
Also now the DSC light almost never flickers; unlike maybe half the time on a nice twisty B-road with the lethal nine-years-old Potenzas (despite 5-6mm tread!)
Someone on the forum needs to come out in the passenger seat with me and maybe tell me I need to get a move on lol Touch wood Iāve never had a DSC flicker light and found my then near 7 year old Potenzas fine. I āthinkā I drive spiritedly when the road allows, but clearly I donāt 
That is a key point. Using the tyres correctly keeps them supple!
A low mileage tyre that has not been flexed enough goes hard.
When buying both cars I was tiptoeing home a hundred+ miles in the rain! Any touch of the right foot, or turn of the steering, and a flicker. It was scary, especially in the rain. And it didnāt get any better on dry days later on.