Best way to reduce wind noise in 2012 Prius Plug In?

welcome!
i don't have too much, what speed are you driving?

 

i can concur with the camry. is the prius new to you?

 

understood. sorry i don't have any recommendations. at 55 mph, mine is noisier than a camry, but tolerable.

 

After 6 years you now can't tolerate wind noise? Either sell the car or put your issue in the proper forum. Hatchbacks will always be louder from road noise than either of your other cars.

 

good call.

 

You may want to experiment with 'noise cancelling' ear buds or head phones. These have a small microphone and amplifier that takes the outside noise and inverts it to the sound generators. This cancels most of the noise. I use noise canceling ear buds at bars to 'mute' the ambient noise.

Bob Wilson

 

Do you have any attachments on your car like a roof rack or trailer hitch bike carrier? If so, that's probably where most of the noise comes from and there's not a lot you can do other than to remove them. Otherwise it's kind of hard to suggest something with so little information. Perhaps you need to redo the seals around the doors or hatch.

The Prius was designed for gas mileage and that means other things like quiteness took a back seat...

 

Lmao so you drove the car for 6 years and didn't have an issue until now. Sounds more like you brought the car used recently and got pwnt

 

I put some tape over the holes underneath the mirror and it made all the difference in the world.

 

Huh, holes under the mirror? Perhaps some tubes of different lengths and you'd have reinvented the Scottish contribution to music:

Mount a couple of tires with bulges for the beat ... a musical treat.

Bob Wilson

 

primes didn't get the special holes pips got.

 

I concur, the wind noise on my '12 was far higher than on my '04. I think they went from two door gaskets to one. I'll try the mirror hole thing, though. Hard to believe that they wouldn't have caught that in wind-tunnel testing.