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Offline Ash_SteadyEddy

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Engine noise
« on: February 03, 2013, 09:33:05 pm »
Not long had my eddy but I'm already well aware that the k04 engine isn't known for its wonderful sound track! Listening to my car though it has a slight whining sound on tick over, which increased slightly with a small amount of revs. Don't get me wrong it's not loud, but I can hear it when I have my windows down and it's in a quiet, and relatively enclosed environment, by a wall etc.. So now I'm paranoid it may be something that needs looking at? Can anyone shed some light/aka ease my paranoia lol.

The car had its Cambelt and water pump service 12months ago, so is due a service now on the calendar but has only done about 4k miles in those last 12 months. The car itself has only done 42k miles.

Understand this is a needle in a haystack kind of question. But I'm wondering if its worth a trip to my local vw garage to get them to have a look, or if I'm just being stupid.

Thanks.
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Re: Engine noise
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2013, 11:03:36 pm »
It sounds as i one of the belts may be tensioned too tightly. I'd get it checked by someone mechanically minded for peace of mind.

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Re: Engine noise
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2013, 08:50:12 am »
My MKV GTI sounds like its supercharged between 1500 - 2500 rpm... after that its turbo noise :)

Not sure what causes the whine... all I know is that if you stuff your car with females the noise dosn't matter...
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Re: Engine noise
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2013, 05:42:50 pm »
Yeah mine is pretty much the same kind of sound in the same kind of rev range. I wouldn't say it's annoying just can't say I remember hearing it before. Probably due to being so engrossed with the performance  :driver:
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