Home | Register | FAQ | Members List | Calendar | Today's Posts | Search |
Social Groups |
Registered
Members: 13,660 | Total Threads: 40,056 | Total Posts: 470,826 Currently Active Users: 813 (17 members and 796 guests) Welcome to our newest member, anielHetry |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
13-09-16, 07:34 AM | #1 | |
Grown up member
Classic Audi Club Member
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: northampton
Posts: 266
|
Dif type noise
Got a dif type noise comes and goes. Comes in sometimes as I accelerate through mid range revs and then phases back out. Dont hear it on initial acceleration from stand still or when holding a constant speed. Its a bit of a rumble type of noise. I'm thinking maybe CV's?
Its certainly not an engine type of noise. |
|
13-09-16, 12:19 PM | #2 |
4 ring whore!
Classic Audi Club Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Polmont
Posts: 2,617
|
cv joints make more of a clackety clack noise when turning corners
__________________
1991 90 quattro 20v sport 1991 90 quattro |
13-09-16, 02:22 PM | #3 |
Grown up member
Classic Audi Club Member
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: northampton
Posts: 266
|
Hmm, no not that then. Very hard noise to describe, I would liken it mostly to if you have a metal heat shield on a car thats vibrating through the whole sheet of metal.
|
13-09-16, 02:32 PM | #4 |
Grown up member
Classic Audi Club Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 239
|
Perhaps the O/S engine mount has collapsed such that the engine is sitting on the sub-frame?
__________________
Roger Galvin Chairman & Technical Secretary, qOC quattro Workshop |
13-09-16, 06:18 PM | #5 |
Grown up member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 198
|
In addition to the suggestions above, do consider front wheel bearings. You can often rule this in or out because the drone will change subtley with cornering, which can sometimes be confounded with vehicle speed (as you might accelerate and deccelerate in and out of corners).
|
Bookmarks |
|
|