Originally Posted by Steve - UK

All tyres give a lot of road noise when twoards the end of their life and tend not to take the road surface bumps as well as new. New tyres are always quiet in comparison and give nice ride. The XF gives quite a lot of road noise anyway due to back wheels being very close to driver, very little noise insulation, and made worse by very large contact area between tyre tread and road surface. I have a double layer of mats in the back which helps a little but there is lots of scope for placing insulation material in the big emty spaces over the rear wheel arches - check it out by removing the rear lamp panel in the boot.

Originally Posted by waylander

I'd agree with you on that - except for the tyres were nearly new... I just didn't like how exposed the rear rim lip was (on the original 255s). interestingly enough I'd swear blind Deb's Astra has more tyre roar than the XF too

Originally Posted by Steve - UK

So you had new Falkens on the XF with 255 rears, but then you took them off and put Kumho's on in stead? Have you still got the Falkens - I'll buy them off you!!