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General Discussion / Re: What do I do?
« on: December 16, 2015, 01:13:43 pm »LM24,
This is a bit like Christmas pin the tail on the donkey, but I would put money on a high pitched shriek being an alternator belt.
Cambelts and cam chains do fail, but it's very rare. Many manufacturers recommend a change at a certain mileage. (I would check this) I don't think mine made a high pitched noise, but dont remember. The failure was a few years ago and resulted in a new engine that was mostly paid for by Vauxhall.
Aricus
Hmmmm. Ok, thanks for the advice and input. I guess I will wait and see what the Mechanic has to say. Fingers crossed its cheap and easy to fix.
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General Discussion / Re: What do I do?
« on: December 16, 2015, 11:05:32 am »Okay, here's some questioning to try and pin point the issue -
- Is it an engine or gearbox noise.
- Is it continuous or varies with revs.
- High pitched or low pitched.
- Has any thing changes with the car recently.
It's a high pitched whining and rather continuous, but worse after initially turning on the engine or if I am idling at a stop. Nothing has really changed with the car, except for this terrible shrieking noise.
@Aricus, was your issue with the cambelt high pitched? How much did it cost to replace? I'm looking through online products and found some cambelt kits for less than £50 (like this for VW). Is that about the right price, providing that nothing else is wrong?
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General Discussion / Re: What do I do?
« on: December 16, 2015, 10:51:46 am »LM24,
Not easy to diagnose over a forum.
Whining could be gears, belts. So anything from a belt needs lack taken up to the gearbox or supercharger is about to fail.
Anything from £nothing to £lots.
(Many years ago I had a similar noise. The mechanic put some WD40 on a belt to quieten it. A few days later, the cambelt failed a spaghetti junction and one part of the V6 dropped its valves and left me getting home in a recovery truck).
What's the car?
Aricus
I very much hope this won't be the case. I'm kind of thinking belt as well, but am hoping and praying it is only a belt and nothing else bigger and more expensive going on.
It's a 2005 VW Jetta (A5, Type 1K). Nothing sexy, but it gets me to where I need to go.
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General Discussion / Re: What do I do?
« on: December 16, 2015, 10:45:24 am »My car has a whining when I drive too "briskly", but only when the Mrs is with me... :-)
HAHAHAHAA brilliant! Absolutely the best response and actually made me laugh out loud and shock some people in my office. Thanks for lightening my day chap!
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General Discussion / What do I do?
« on: December 16, 2015, 09:40:21 am »
First, sorry for the non Le Mans related topic, but you guys are all car geniuses and I most certainly am not. So figured I would ask. Started hearing a whining noise yesterday coming from my engine. It caught me by surprise, but then it went away. Again this morning heading into work, there is was. I will have to bring it into the garage after work, but I would like to have an idea of what it is before I walk in their clueless and they try to sell me 2 grand of things I don't need.
Any thoughts? Please be cheap thoughts!
Any thoughts? Please be cheap thoughts!
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Just To Say Hi / Re: That time of year
« on: December 16, 2015, 09:19:42 am »The 'Naki eh?
I thought only us Canadians said "eh"
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It Happened To Me / Re: Broke Down on the way there.
« on: December 15, 2015, 05:34:59 pm »
What a nightmare. But all is well that ends well.
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General Discussion / Re: 2016 Audi R18
« on: December 15, 2015, 05:26:29 pm »Just when you thought contemporary racing cars couldn't get uglier? Here's the 2016 Audi...
Yeesh!
http://www.racer.com/wec-le-mans/item/124102-audi-launches-2016-r18-lmp1-racer
Fax
TBH it's still better than the crap contraption called a car that I drive.
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Just To Say Hi / Re: Hi all
« on: December 15, 2015, 05:18:09 pm »As are we all! You are very welcome.
Any Le Mans experience or plans?
I plan to gain some experience ;-)
Kidding, I used to follow all of the big races when I was younger. I actually raced karts in clubs up until 16, so pretty much lived for anything with speed. My father took me to the the Daytona 500 when I was 11. Haven't made it to France yet for the Le Mans, but it's on the bucket list.
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Just To Say Hi / Hi all
« on: December 14, 2015, 02:36:08 pm »
Didn't see an official introduction thread, so I'm saying hi here. Excited to be here.
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