MK5 Gti Road Noise Best Tried & Tested Ways To Improve?

[AddictedtooBase]

Hello new member here ive just bought a mk5 Gti Golf 3 door and ive been searching through your site and could not find any definitive answers or updates to how everyone go on with quietening down there mk5 Gti. (mostly found old posts from 2012 lol)

my biggest questions are as follows

1. Is dynamatting the boot area etc worth it? and is dynamat still the best product to use or has there been better technology since?

2. Whats the best tyre to get for good grip but still being nice and quiet? (would love to hear other mk5 gti owners tried and tested opinions on what really helped quiet there cars down)

i am currently looking for a set of 17 inch monzas as my car has 18 inch on it atm

thanks for any help given 

[AddictedtooBase]

Nobody has any input??

[mjmallia]

Quality tyres

[ZoliWorks]

I can tell you what tire ISNT quiet: Vredestein ultrac vortii+. My winter tires are quieter than this!

As far as soundproofing, you can probably go with anything. I use STP (Standartplast). I've done my door panels on my old one but haven't gotten around to doing this car yet and probably wont till summer. I use 3 layers. STP silver for vibration absorption, STP aero 6 for thermal insulation and some generic sound absorption foam for the door inner panels. The first 2 go on the door outer panels.

Since I've only done the doors, not the entire car, cant say if it really makes a sound difference, but what it does is reduce vibrations by a ton. Like before if I had my speakers on medium, all the exterior panels, interior panels, mirror covers would vibrate. After? almost no vibrations. This car has an amp and a 10 speaker audio package so it's a lot worse. I can hear the door panel rattling when it touches the window glass.

[pudding]

I dynamatted the boot floor on mine and it made very little difference. The noise on these cars predominantly comes from the lack of rubber in the damper top mounts and the relatively wide tyres.

Continental are generally quieter tyres than their competitors in my experience, especially if you choose the optional foam inserts. I found the Premium contact 6 to be pretty quiet on my ED30 and it's very close to the SportContact in terms of grip.

If none of that works, go with the sound absorption method instead and just line the boot area with acoustic egg box foam 

[AddictedtooBase]

I dynamatted the boot floor on mine and it made very little difference. The noise on these cars predominantly comes from the lack of rubber in the damper top mounts and the relatively wide tyres.

Continental are generally quieter tyres than their competitors in my experience, especially if you choose the optional foam inserts. I found the Premium contact 6 to be pretty quiet on my ED30 and it's very close to the SportContact in terms of grip.

If none of that works, go with the sound absorption method instead and just line the boot area with acoustic egg box foam 

Hello thanks alot for the input did you notice at least a bit of a difference in tyre noise in the rear after dynamatting? as its mostly tyre noise im trying to quiet down. New tyres is on my to do list once i source and purchase a set of 17 inch monzas. I wil be getting a set of 4 Goodyear eagle f1 asymmetric 6 (from what i hear they are very quiet and have been highly recommended by mk5 gti owners) on a 17 inch rim with a 45 wall tyre im hoping this should make a big difference combined with some dynamatting the boot area.