I love to hear that supercharger whine and that turbocharger howl.

In fact I can’t get enough of it, and I never tire of it.

But when the missus is cruising at 125 she sometimes wishes she had a little less road noise.

Does anyone know of a good and proper drive-in soundproofing centre who could sort this while-u-wait?

Has anyone gone down this route already and would like to share their experience?

I love to hear that supercharger whine and that turbocharger howl.

In fact I can’t get enough of it, and I never tire of it.

But when the missus is cruising at 125 she sometimes wishes she had a little less road noise.

Does anyone know of a good and proper drive-in soundproofing centre who could sort this while-u-wait?

Has anyone gone down this route already and would like to share their experience?

not surpirsed theres road noise when she's cruising at 125

a good car audio shop will probably be able to help with sound proofing.

I love to hear that supercharger whine and that turbocharger howl.

In fact I can’t get enough of it, and I never tire of it.

But when the missus is cruising at 125 she sometimes wishes she had a little less road noise.

Does anyone know of a good and proper drive-in soundproofing centre who could sort this while-u-wait?

Has anyone gone down this route already and would like to share their experience?

Hello, I have a Mk 2 Fabia HPT.So no problem with the noise of a high revving powerful engine. This has noticeable road noise. I fitted the under bonnet sound proofing from the diesel version. I can't remember the price but I'm sure it was less than £20. It comes with the plastic clips and takes about five minutes to fit. It has reduced engine noise very slightly but road noise, which I think is coming from the Continental tyres is the same. This might be best reduced by changing the tyres. I think the noise is conducted through the car rather than being airborne and isolating the wheels by changing suspension bushes and engine mounts would be a nightmare. The vRS may have harder ones to give better handling but these may conduct noise and vibration better. At high speeds wind noise will be a big problem as well. I did acoustics some years ago as a post grad and vibration was a difficult area, I think I would leave bushes and mounts alone, it would be very easy to spoil the warranty and the car.

Try the under bonnet soundproofing, if not already fitted, its cheap and easy, but I think you are going to have to live with the road noise. I have heard Michelin tyres are good but I'll wait until my Continentals wear out.

Good luck John Fisher

I love to hear that supercharger whine and that turbocharger howl.

In fact I can’t get enough of it, and I never tire of it.

But when the missus is cruising at 125 she sometimes wishes she had a little less road noise.

Does anyone know of a good and proper drive-in soundproofing centre who could sort this while-u-wait?

Has anyone gone down this route already and would like to share their experience?

I've found that most of the noise is generated by the tyres themselves. Don't know what tyres you have fitted to yours but mine came with Dunlop Sport Maxx tyres. I don't rate these at all as they're a hard compound tyre which is great for durability but pants for everything else - grip, road noise etc. As soon as I can justify it I'll be changing them to something else.

In terms of sound insulation on the car itself, I don't think it's bad as cars go. You can of course insulate it further by sound deadening the doors which as others have said, a good car audio store should be able to sort this for you.

I love to hear that supercharger whine and that turbocharger howl.

In fact I can’t get enough of it, and I never tire of it.

But when the missus is cruising at 125 she sometimes wishes she had a little less road noise.

Does anyone know of a good and proper drive-in soundproofing centre who could sort this while-u-wait?

Has anyone gone down this route already and would like to share their experience?

The most expensive option I can think of is to buy yourself a Mk1 VRS, drive that for about 60,000 miles then change to the mk2, it will then seem a whole lot better. ;o)

Im like you with loving the engine noises, but Im pretty sure most of the road noise is from the very low profile tyres (Not that I have done much High speeds yet to see how load the engine is at faster speeds), I know the tire change on my old car made a diffrence.

I changed from the standard VRS tyres (Whatever they where?) to Perrelli P zero Nero's and they where a lot better.

Good Brisk replies!

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Mine makes a racket at 90. So i'd either slow down, or get used to it

not surpirsed theres road noise when she's cruising at 125

No disrespect but perhaps the missus should slow it down a notch! Not saying the vRS isnt a safe car but I wouldnt really want to be hitting anything at those speeds, would fold up like a tin can!

Bare in mind that the vRS has very firm suspension, all riding on what is pretty much the previous gen Polo platform (not like the Seat and VW which run the latest one). It's never going to be a particularly quiet car on the move, the firm suspension and more primitive sound deadening will just highlight that even more.

Personally I wouldnt want anyone taking my car apart to Dynamat it unless they absolutely knew what they were doing. They never really quite go back together the same way as they did in the factory. I also probably wouldnt want to spend the money.

If you want a quieter car of the same ilk you'll be needing a Polo GTi, 19K please!

My brief experience while test driving suggests the noise in the cabin is down to tyres and the almost comically large wing mirrors.

Wind noise was obvious on my extended drive, and I doubt there's much you can do about that.

As others have said I'd look at changing the tyres.

Then it's into the wind tunnel for some wing mirror modifications

Hi,

You could do as I did last summer. I fitted soundproofing in the boot and under the rear seats, and that really helped. It removed the rumble from the back. When I get the time, I will do the rest of the car.

I got it from here: http://www.deadening.co.uk/index.php

Bgds Dan

My experience on the first weekend and doing about 100 of the 200 miles on Motorways its tyre noise which starts to get a little loud around 70 mph and louder as the speed gets quicker.

I think someone else suggested the tyres are quite hard which would probably account for the noise, maybe a softer tyre needed.

Hope this helps.

Paul