Hello everyone....just joined so be gentle & sorry in advance if this topic has been covered previously.

I am picking up my new VRS diesel in candy white on Tuesday...afyer ordering it 10/12/10 !!!! & want to add sound proofing to the boot area as i've read road noise can be an issue. Never had this problem with my Superb. What material can I use & where can I buy it from.

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

I've just bought and fitted a set for the whole car from Noisekiller - see link below, and it has made a significant difference.

http://www.noisekiller.co.uk/

Mac

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I used Dynamat. Easy to apply in boot/spare wheel well and under rear seats. Did it when I first got the car on the basis of stories here, so I can't honestly say what difference it made, but I've no complaints with noise levels. (Raised boot floor space full of stuff plus carpet mat and boot liner probably helps deaden noise just as much).

What tyres do you guys have?

I don't find the road noise in my Octavia bad at all...

What tyres do you guys have?

I don't find the road noise in my Octavia bad at all...

Bridgestone Potenzas were fitted when I picked it up from the dealer and, as I've had previous experience with this brand, I would and should have steered well clear of them. They make a hell of a noise and are prone to sawtoothing as they wear down!!!

Mac

When I went to looka at it, I noticed it had dunlops on. If thats good or bad time will tell.

Just glad to see it in the metal so to speak.

What tyres do you guys have?

I don't find the road noise in my Octavia bad at all...

What are you running? I've got Bridgestone Potenzas on my L&K and there's a lot of road noise coming through.

It's got Dunlops on it.....thats why I was asking about soundproofing, as i have seen on here they too are quite noisey.

I currently have Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 2s and Kumho KU31s. Road noise is fine.

Have also had Conti Sport Contact 3s and these were OK too.

The Goodyears are absolutely phenomenal by the way. Can actually put all the power down! Much better than the Contis. Kumhos are somewhere in between.

I have got Kumhos on my Superb, which I am trading in for my VRS, which are fine too, the Bridgestone ones the Superb came with also suffered from road noise, so spoke to my local tyre dealer about the problem & he advised it was the lateral cleats in the tyre that gave the noise ...the more cleats the more noise, so he suggested Kumhos & end of problem.

If I do ahve this noise problem on my new VRS I just hope its down to the tyres & nothing else.

If I do get road noise i wondered if I lined the spare wheel well, under the boot carpet, & under the rear seat with some sort of noise deadening material would make much difference.

Btw halfords dont sell this sort of stuff, a couple of fellow posters have pointed me in the right direction, but seems expensive for a bit of sound insulation.

I used dynamat ultralight and dynamat dynaliner for sound proofing and the later sound absorbsion. I did all the boot, up the rear wheel arches, tailgate and under the rear seats. I bought the bulk pack at about £130 and the dynaliner was around £60. I used about 1/2 of the bulk pack which is 48sq feet. Although it did cut quite alot of the noise out, I was hoping for more considering the amount I put in it.

Probably tyre noise evident which seems difficult to eliminate to any real degree.

Well the tyre noise in my Skoda Octavia 2 1.6 CRD Elegance is dire on all but the really smooth tarmac. You can hear it change on the more typically (unfortunately) coarse stuff which seem to be on 90% of UK roads. Plus there is like a high frequency buzz on these type of surfaces which is very irritating. This is on Continental Sport Contacts supplied with the car. Is soundproofing likely to make any real difference?

It would stop me buying a Skoda next time round.

There was a big tyre thread sometime ago about this (which i can,t find).It seems they do suffer from this.Sound deadening does seem to work around the back area of these quite well.

Mine is very noisey at the moment as i have 2 very cheap budget tyres on my Zeniths at the rear which i will change very soon as its driving me nuts with the droning noise.I have Kumhos on the front which are very quiet.I,d recommend these for grip/wear and being quiet.

I have the Potenzas on my 2011 RS and its as quite as a mouse!...Hardly any road noise at all unless im on a bag of bones country track!!

kit

Ran into some trouble a while ago. Horrible tire noises. I figured it was a wheel bearing, took it to a local garage to confirm. "Nope, just the tires worn unevenly" well sh%t, they had about 30.000 kms on them. So i bought the bulk pack to try to keep the noise down, and planned to swith the tires back to front to seeof it made a difference. Before i could however, the noise got worse. Different shop confirmed, wheel bearing. So i got that fixed.

I recieved the bulk pack a week later, and decided to add it anyway. Entire boot, spare wheel well, under the back seats, front door cards, the boot lid, under the insulation matt under the bonnet, took off all 4 wheels, removed the wheel arch liners and did the wheel arches including the front wings.

It did make a difference, the Amundsen lived its life on 6 volume, now its on 4. Close the back door and it goes CLACK, close the front and it goes thump. Overall a good investment, and above all.......it was fun measuring, cutting, and installing the insulation! :-)

Which pack did you go for?

Is there a bonnet liner that is already cut to suit the fittings under the Octavia 2 bonnet?

Re tyres, my new Vredesteins are good. but the roads are mostly lousy!

The diesel models always came with a bonnet liner... Not sure if they stopped that with the new CR engines though? I'm pretty sure our work cars have them. I've got a dynamat variant installed underneath that for a bit more effect... Really makes a difference to my rattly old PD105.

Other than that I've got the boot and rear bench all done.

Incidentally I used to use potenza tyres as that's what was on when I bought it... Noisy as hell and no grip in the wet at all. Pilot sport 3 all round now and they're much better.

Pretty mixed messages, really, overall.

Hi all. Have a 1.8tsi,2yrs old, road noise from tyres awful. Changed them from factory fitted Conti 2's, to Goodyear efficient grip performance, as they have low sound rating of 68db. (This is only measured on the outside of the car), so isn't really a lot to rely on. The change of tyres made hardly any difference, so I lined the boot and beneath the rear seat, again without much improvement. Have come to the conclusion that Octavia's are poorly soundproofed compared with other quiet cars I have owned in the recent past. Will have to grin and bear the droning noise until I can afford to replace the otherwise fine car, in a couple of years time. (Didn't realise how bad it was untill I travelled in a friends Honda Accord recently). Would only buy another Skoda if it were perhaps a Superb model.

I found fitting a boot mat improved matters a little.

archie, what did you use to try reduce the noise?

 

the octavia is noisy compared to other vag cars such as the a4 and passat. But remember they are cheaper and this is one place they have cut costs.

 

The octavia doesnt have as much seal on the doors either as other vag models, the door them selves have a double seal on the audi's where as the octavia only have single.

 

When fitting items to reduce road noise you need to make sure you use the correct product. Once which is designed to reduce the low frequencies from the tyres etc

On 5/15/2013 at 10:28, Too Tall said:

Ran into some trouble a while ago. Horrible tire noises. I figured it was a wheel bearing, took it to a local garage to confirm. "Nope, just the tires worn unevenly" well sh%t, they had about 30.000 kms on them. So i bought the bulk pack to try to keep the noise down, and planned to swith the tires back to front to seeof it made a difference. Before i could however, the noise got worse. Different shop confirmed, wheel bearing. So i got that fixed.

I recieved the bulk pack a week later, and decided to add it anyway. Entire boot, spare wheel well, under the back seats, front door cards, the boot lid, under the insulation matt under the bonnet, took off all 4 wheels, removed the wheel arch liners and did the wheel arches including the front wings.

It did make a difference, the Amundsen lived its life on 6 volume, now its on 4. Close the back door and it goes CLACK, close the front and it goes thump. Overall a good investment, and above all.......it was fun measuring, cutting, and installing the insulation! :-)

 

What exactly did you use?

1 hour ago, Inex said:

 

What exactly did you use?

 

Long time ago...something from dynamat called bulk pack apparently...