so to speak....

Went in to get the window switch recall taken care of. Had the dealer rotate tires. It has been many miles since rotated. or never, on the new tires. Anyway, road noise, from tires (?) seems to be quite higher.
Not sure what to check, if anything. This is the same dealer that I am 99% sure stripped one of the lug nuts a year ago.

Thanks.

 

from the voice of millions who have come before you:

1. having a dealer do anything to your car is a risky move. You "have to" get the warranty/recall work done there, but I wouldn't let them touch anything else.
2. when dealing with tires, there are two schools: a) never rotate them, let them find their "groove", and replace them as they wear down prematurely; or b) get them rotated and balanced every 7500 miles. I do the latter because I get my tires at Costco. Rotations and balancing are done for the life of the tire for "free."

Since you have not rotated them in quite some time, the tires have simply found their "groove" relating to how they react to your current toe and camber settings (alignment), the weight of the front engine, and the balance weights as the tires turn. By now balancing and rotating, you have disrupted that groove and they will be plenty noisy, probably for the rest of the tire's life if it has been several years. If it hasn't been all that long, it is possible the tires will quiet down as the months go by, but I wouldn't bet on it. Again, with tires, you either do the rotations or not. There really is no in between. And since dealerships do such great work, do me a favor and go outside to make sure you don't have directional tires on your car. If you do, there is a chance that they crossed tires over from side to side and the arrow on the sidewall is now pointing in the wrong direction. Directional tires must always point forward.

 

Good points but the freshly rotated tires will quiet down after putting some miles on them IF them were just rotated front to back.

If they rotated side to side without dismounting them and re-installing them with the same rotation it's going to be awhile.

 

Thanks...
I was hoping it was just a "rotation" problem. I do not have a problem going to some dealers. This dealer happens to be a dealer who sells Nissan, Honda, and in another store, Chevy, etc. Our Toyota dealer has been very good. We have taken our van and my 4Runner there for 6 years. Maybe next time I will just take it there.

Thanks again for the replies!

 

Rotating tires alone will change road noise because tires and tread takes a 'set' and when moved to another location on the car makes tires run different.
When we rotate its always switching on the same side or not at all so we only change 2 tires at a time. Yeah, cheapskate.