[televisionary]

Is this normal?

[Crashnburn80]

MTRs do tend to get louder as they wear...

[televisionary]

Originally Posted by Crashnburn80

MTRs do tend to get louder as they wear...

Ah. Thanks for the quick reply.

[KaiserJeep]

You need to rotate every 3000 miles to avoid this.

[RLD831]

Give it about 200-300 miles and it'll quiet down.

[Slithering_Joe]

Originally Posted by RLD831

Give it about 200-300 miles and it'll quiet down.

X2

When I bought my Jeep I complained about the tires. They were really loud. The guy aggreed to install new tires or knock off $400 from the price. I opted for the discount since I knew the tires would quiet down after some use. Within 500 miles everything quieted down.

[spyder6]

my MT/R's were REALLY loud in the begining, then after about 300 miles they quieted down a little, but were still REALLY loud. then i put BFG muds (315x75x16r) on and they're more quiet than 9.5" wide MT/R's

[yellajeep04]

I experianced this recently also, the driverside rear tire sounded like a wwii airplane at full throttle. The tire's tread was sloped to one side! I found my front-end alighnment was WAYYYY off center. I gotta pay more attention to that on a regular basis. The sloped tire is now my spare. I didn't have the patience to wait for it to wear down.

[Postal]

They should be a little bit louder. It also depends on how they were rotated. I had one place that did mine, and they were not as loud as they typically are when I have them done.
I looked and found that they had just moved the front to the rear buy didn't swap left to right. I swapped the RR with the RL and they were much louder simply because the tread is not cutting in the direction opposite of the previous 5k miles.

Your rotation should be FR to RL and FL to RR and throw the spare into the mix as well.

I haven't rotated my spare in because I knew I was going to move from 33s to 35s and the shop said they would credit me toward the 33 if it still have the little porcipine things on the tread.

[swannee]

Rotate every 3k or at oil change, pressure is critical run what's on the tire....
Pull my JK behind motor home you can't change oil in an RV Park. Have to use jiffy lube and wal-mart both have bleed air from 50# to 35# whats on the door for OEM tires. Pulled Jeep across Texas to Utah very loud.. have been trying to wear them round again lost alot of tire but not as loud..

[BlueFlame]

Originally Posted by swannee

Rotate every 3k or at oil change, pressure is critical run what's on the tire......

Um, no. What's on the tire is the max pressure, which will be Way too high for a TJ.

[Mooseknuckles]

Originally Posted by BlueFlame

Um, no. What's on the tire is the max pressure, which will be Way too high for a TJ.

No joke... just because my tires can hold 50psi safely doesn't mean they're gonna hold it happily.

[samger2]

All these answers depend on how bad your tires are cupped...if they've been on the rear for a long time and are cupped severely, no amount of driving will quiet them down...if they are just slightly cupped then they can probably wear down a bit and be ok. Snap some close up pics of your front tires...lets see how cupped they are.

[Imped]

Originally Posted by swannee

Rotate every 3k or at oil change, pressure is critical run what's on the tire....
Pull my JK behind motor home you can't change oil in an RV Park. Have to use jiffy lube and wal-mart both have bleed air from 50# to 35# whats on the door for OEM tires. Pulled Jeep across Texas to Utah very loud.. have been trying to wear them round again lost alot of tire but not as loud..

You're obviously a genius. Crappy advice and you bring up a 3 year old thread.

[swannee]

Originally Posted by Imped

You're obviously a genius. Crappy advice and you bring up a 3 year old thread.

What crappy information? How do you take care of your tires?