A-Q-R

My TSX was damn noisy with the Audio off, i can hear wind noises and cars passing by even when I am driving 40mph on a normal road. Is that normal? I remeber I can hear this much of wind noise when I test drove one, maybe I forgot. Any comment? If this is not normal, I am thinking of taking this back in to change the rubber seal....

larchmont

I'd say it's quiet quite.

larchmont

.....but seriously folks -- that doesn't sound normal. Or at least, my TSX is nothing like that.

briny319

Mine is very quite. I did hear a noise coming from a door seal for a few days but its been 4,000 miles without hearing anything.

fdl

My TSX is quite good.

Make sure your doors are closed.

w_piti

mine is good too. Maybe the wind in ya place is too strong? Maybe u think too much?

shaf

What car were you driving before the TSX?

majormojo

Mine is generally very quiet. Not much wind noise at all, at city or highway speeds. Even cross winds don't seem to make much noise. It's not silent, though - I hear a bit of road noise from the tires, esp around town on rough asphalt. The road noise is very likely accentuated by feeling the roughness through the wheel as well.

Doctor V

Maybe he's driving in Bermuda right now, in the teeth of Hurricane Fabian.

Seriously, my TSX is really quiet, much more so than the '97 Civic EX I traded in. I can whisper to my wife and be heard easily, and the wind noise seems very muffled. I suspect a seal problem.

A-Q-R

Seriously, I drove an INtegra 4-door (frameless windows) seems quiter......oh man...what the hell happen man

A-Q-R

Probably I demand too much out of a TSX? I had driven a 97 Maxima, and its quiet as hell......

YBA

Have you tried to drive with your windows up? ;-)

On a more serious note, the only noise I hear in mine is the noise of the loud tires...

A-Q-R

How bout on freeway...any wind noise heard? An yes, i drive with the windows up.....don;t like to roll it down....hate the street noises

YBA

I don't get wind noise at all until I reach 180km/h... I called the dealer about it but they can't do anything about it...

ElectronFlux

Yeah the tires are a touch noisy and I don't like the cruising white noise.

But the motor and suspension are very controlled and quiet.

I just wish the cabin was quieter at cruising speeds. Perhaps the TL is more sound deadened.


just because this emoticon freaks me out... I had to place it here.

dabuda

i also have cabin noise while cruising but i usually have the radio on

Johns

I find the TSX to be pretty quiet. There is some road noise from the tires, and a small amount of wind noise at about 80 mph, but overall, very quiet.

A-Q-R

I can hear my freind called when she is standing in front of the car while all the doors are closed. Is that normal?
And worst, just found out my steering is not straight...wtf

fdl

OK..maybe my OCD is kicking in but ....

In case you didnt get the sarcasm in some of the posts...can you please correct the spelling in your topic?

larchmont

Mein two.

A-Q-R

Whatever man, I don't know how to edit the title.

tehCOW

just go back to your first post on this thread, click on "edit" then you should be able to change the "post subject"

The TSX is quiet, but i've notice that the 03 accord is quieter. Can some verify this?

larchmont

This is going to be a little complicated and probably weird.....

Noise perception is a very subjective and multi-factorial thing. A physicist would say, just get a decibel meter or whatever, and measure the noise -- but IMO that would miss the point. I say that different people might rate the exact same noise level differently, depending on a lot of things. For example, suppose you go into a restaurant where it's a little bit "lively" and you like how it is in there -- you probably won't think it's "noisy," you might not notice any noise at all. But if you don't like how it is in there, you'll think, "Hey, it's noisy in here, let's get the hell out of here."

I test drove the new Accord, and I like it a lot overall, but not nearly as much as the TSX. And I don't know what a decibel meter would show, but I can tell you that subjectively, my sense was that the TSX is distinctly quieter. But you know, that's not really it either. It's really very much like the restaurant analogy -- I like the TSX sound (or lack thereof, when there's no perceptible sound), because I love the car so much. The perception of the sound is influenced by the feeling you have from the environment. "Noise" is a bothersome thing, and if you love the environment and the quality of the sound, you won't perceive much if any "noise."

BTW -- My guess about what a decibel meter would show: TSX just a little quieter most of the time and on the average -- but with a wider range of decibel levels, with the noise level at certain times being a bit higher than it would ever become in the Accord. But mostly it's different types of sound and different types of overall sensation.

A-Q-R

Whatever man, I don't know how to edit the title.

fdl

Looks like you dont know how to post either. This is the second time you posted the exact same thing.

Sorry man, but you are making this too easy

larchmont

Hey, don't feel too bad, AQR -- fdl is tough sometimes!

BTW -- another one of those things that isn't the most important thing in the world: It's easy to wind up re-posting the same post. After you do a post, if you go "back" and then "forward," sometimes the same post gets re-posted. I don't know exactly what makes it happen -- sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. People have made fun of it indirectly sometimes, but I don't think anyone has ever identified it as a site problem.

And I'm not going to either.

Nor am I going to get to upsset over peaple's speeling.

mtnkill

From Edmunds:

http://www.edmunds.com/new/2003/hond...alpage=page001
2003 Accord LX (2.4L 4cyl):

Db @ Idle 66
Db @ Full Throttle: 88
Db @ 70 mph Cruise: 92


http://www.edmunds.com/new/2004/acur...alpage=page001
2004 Acura TSX (2.4L 4cyl)

Db @ Idle: Lo
Db @ Full Throttle: 77
Db @ 70 mph Cruise: 75

larchmont

Hey, is this the all-time greatest first post, or what??

I had to do a double take at those numbers. TSX is quieter, across the board.

I'm a little surprised -- it goes against my basic sense of the two cars, although not much.

Realize, though, this still might not tell the entire "decibel story" -- it's possible that there are indeed conditions under which the TSX decibel level is higher than anything that comes out of the Accord. In fact, I'd still bet on it.

But it's not "noise," it's MUSIC!


P.S. Hey, mtnkill, what ARE you, a physicist or something??

larchmont

Oh, just noticed: Accord 4-cyl.

I wonder about the 6.

fdl

Ya dont take me too seriously. I am real prick sometimes ... although alot of times I am half kidding or teasing and it doesnt come across on here.

A-Q-R

Sup...nah...I don't feel anything at all, don't even care..... I am here to learn something....not to get angry on something insignificant.

mtnkill

Oops, my mistake. According to the page I pulled that data from, those are the #'s for the 6-cyl. Wow!

Nope, not a physicist, just recalled reading about DB levels somewhere before and went hunting for them. Thanks for the kudo's though...

Iceman

I also think the TSX is very quiet. It took me a while to get used to it. With my 99 Accord, I knew when to upshift by listening to the engine. With the TSX, I watch the tach.

TypeTSX

How is everyone's idle noise? I hear this ever so slight whistleing noise emmitting from the firewall area. Anyone else experiance this?

Also noticed the exhaust note in between 3.5Krpm shifts...sounds very nice and mellow.

YBA

With windows up, I can't hear if the engine is on or not. No hiss at all.

A-Q-R

Today i was travelling on the feeway and could heard that the wind is leaking in from the left passenger or driver's side door. Anyone had this problem, and how it was fixed? I had an appointment with Acura on Wednesday to try look at it. I heard buzzing sound on the door panel sometimes, is that consider rattles?

STC

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I have the same thing, except mine is the passenger side.
my allignment is off too

odessa

Mine is very quite.

A-Q-R

No luck after taking it back to the dealer, they just fixed the steering. Everything else was told to be OPERATING NORMALLY...sigh