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My hearing is pretty much shot.even when I do hear a noise I cant usually tell where its coming from!
 
I can relate! I have a tickety-tick going on... the sound stopped about one mile before I reached our mechanic last week. :(

It did not make the sound when we drove it to church on Sunday either. :(


Don't like driving a car with a weird sound that cannot be identified and remedied.
 
He did it twice.
At the end of the show, Andy held a gun and threatened Goober till he got it out of the courthouse.
One of the few times Andy ever held a gun on the show.
 
A friend of mine worked in a Cadillac dealership as the Service Manager.A customer brought his brand new Cadillac back complaining of a noise in the interior. They took it for a cruise with a man in the trunk to listen and another in back seat.They took it back to the dealership and took the interior apart and found a beer can in behind the dashboard......
 
When I was with GM, our sales department sold a lady a new Chevy minivan.

She came back a week later, just livid, complaining about a clunking noise in the floor. The service department checked it out and found a jar of pickles rolling around under the front passenger seat.
 
When my wife and I got married, she had a Kia Sportage.

She got rear-ended, insurance sent her to the Kia dealership, they fixed it but there was a very annoying crunching squeak. Took it back, the body dept refused to even look at it, said it would have to go to the mechanic shop, no warranty. After several attempts we gave up and let it squeak.

A few months later, it got rear-ended again, worse this time. Insurance sent it to an independent shop. They did a beautiful job, and whatever was squeaking was gone!

The morning I picked it up, I noticed the piston slap cold engine knock was getting worse. I left the body shop that was on the freeway frontage road, and was up to freeway speed before the engine was fully warm. Suddenly the knock got much worse, scary worse! Then it was gone! Completely went away and never returned...

Must have been carbon on a piston, whatever it was it never came back!

About the getting rear-ended, I don't know what it was about that car, but for whatever reason, it was a tail-gater magnet! I could be running 90, a speck on the horizon, and somebody would find it necessary to come up from behind and see just how close they could follow! Had multiple close calls and several minor rear end bumps, then the 2 major hits.

Sure was glad to get rid of that one!
 
Eight months before 9/11 our 1985 rear drive Celica GT hatchback was totalled by a bad rear ender. After that we got rear ended four more times in two and a half years. One of these totalled our 2002 Camry/50,000 miles with the rest being very minor. We got paranoid about getting on the road. I think there was a national mental distraction/daze with world situations. We miss that Celica. It was the last year of their rear wheel drives.
 
I had a 51 Chevy that made a grinding sound when you backed up. One day I was in the trunk and bumped the spare tire. I heard the same noise !! It was the tire sliding on the bolt After tightening the hold down the noise never returned!
 
My swmbo drives a Hyundai Santa Fe. For quite a while she tolerated an occasional noise coming from under the motor. She had it in the shop several times looking at suspension and steering parts. No luck. One day she actually drove with service tech as a passenger and the noise was there again. Back at the shop, up on the lift, he discovered a rock on top of some sort of shield. I dont remember whether it was an exhaust shield, skid plate or something else.
 
Annnnnnd the doggone thing was clearly tickety-ticking going to and from work today! Grrrr!!

Came home, parked, then moved a head a few inches at a time - found two small rocks firmly stuck in the treads of my new tires. Pried them out, thought maybe that would take care of it.
WENT FOR A TEST SPIN... Nope... tickety-tick still there. Seems to kick-in at about 38-40 mph. Grrr!
 
There was an occasional annoying rattle in my 2007 Outlander. Checked everything we could think of. Seemed like it ws coming from under the drivers seat. Eventually found a 5/16 bolt in an inverted channel section that was welded to the floor. Managed to retrieve it with a piece of wire. Peace!!!!
 
If thats the. case rear ending should spike soon of Course
weve all been rear ended some just cant see it
 

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