20 Warning Car Noises You Must Be Aware Of
Lesson 7. By [Automovill.com] powered by {DigiMusk.com}
Yours is a new car or an old car? Doesn’t matter! What matters is how much attention do you pay to your car? Or, you simply put on your headphones and drive and ignore?
If you love your car, you must be loving every details of your car. One of these include unexpected noises that might arise out of various possibilities. You must keep yourself updated in case if you find any occurrence and you should also be prepared in such cases.
Here Automovill is bringing in your notice 8 car noises that you must be aware of:
1. Clunking
Driving over a bump or any pothole, and you hear clunks? Don’t ignore thinking that this could be due to the edgy road. The clunking could be because of broken brake caliper, bad ball joint, or faulty stabilizer link-pins. Consider taking your car to a workshop and get it rectified soon.
2. Metal Grinding Sound
If you listen a metal grinding sound, possibly the break pad is torn off and the calipers would be grinding against the rotor. Consider replacing the break pad before its too late.
3. Squeaking Sound while turning the wheel
The moment you turn the wheel, you might find your steering column squeaking like a groaning steering wheel. If the sound is light, you can consider topping up the power-steering fluid. If still it doesn’t help, or the sound increases, you should check your power steering lines.
4. Flapping
Are you listening a flapping sound when you run the air conditioner, or the blower? This could be the result of a loose, misaligned ventilation flap. For this, you can opt-in for the AC performance checkup.
5. Roaring sound underneath driver’s seat
In case you’re getting a roaring sound underneath driver’s seat, the exhaust system might be at fault. A malfunctioning exhaust system can result in poisonous carbon monoxide venting into the cabin.
6. Grumpy cat sound
Starting the engine and getting a grumpy cat sound? Don’t worry she is not in your car. However the car battery might be struggling to power the engine. Get a battery test done because you never know when your can stop riding.
7. Squeaking sound under the hood
It could be because of a worn out serpentine belt. This belt is an essential engine component and if there is even a little sign of a squeaking sound, you must get it checked.
8. Squeaking sound at the brakes
Stepped on the brake pedal and getting a high pitched squealing coming in? The brake pad indicator might be rubbing up against the rotor. This signals a replacement of the brake pad.
9. Loud Idling
If you find your car is roaring than the usual, there might be an issue with the cylinder compression. Higher pressure in the cylinder can produce a knocking sound and can even degrade the engine gradually. Get it fixed at a nearby workshop.
10. Uneven Idling
When the car’s spark plugs burn out, you can experience uneven idling. Spark plugs ignite the engine and if these are worn out, you need to replace these immediately.
11. Sputtering
If you remove the keys, but the car still continues running, you might hear the effects of “dieseling”. It happens when the gasoline continues to ignite by compression alone in the cylinder without the aid of the spark plug.
12. Ticking
Noisy pistons indicate low oil levels and can produce ticking sound. Pistons rely on lubricating oil to work, to check the ticking sounds, you will need to check your car’s oil tank.
13. Loud Bang
If the sound is too loud, it could be a fault in air-fuel mixture. It can also signal that a catalytic converter is not functioning properly.
14. Hissing
If the car’s engine make a hissing sound, the cooling system might be leaking. Get it checked and topped up.
15. Cap’n Crunch
Gear grinding can be indicative of a worn out synchronizer. he transmissioncomponent that enables easy shifting from one ratio to another. If these are dilapidated they will not be able to equalize the speeds of the different shafts inside the transmission and the dog clutches will grind.
16. Howling
Pinion pre-load, worn gears or bad bearings can cause howling sound while accelerating or de-accelerating.
17. Scraping from the rear of the car
This could be if your parking brake is on, or brake drum backing plates are rubbing against the brake drum. Check if there is anything stuck at the rear, or the drum plates need to be removed.
18. Clicking while turning around a corner
If the CV joints are worn out, you can get the clicking sound while turning around a corner. You can also check if the brake pads are loosely mounted and need a correction.
19. Popping sound from exhaust
If you find popping sound from the exhaust, fuel injectors might be leaking, or there could be a possible hole or leak in the car’s exhaust.
20. Whirring from the engine
A bad water pump or a bad air conditioning pressure can result in whirring sound from the engine. This can get worse when the engine speed increases. Get an engine inspection.
