VoodooV8
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Just got a 2017, drove it 1,000 miles to home and it was amazing.
Anyways, I decide to go take it out for a spin. 30 minutes into the drive, I noticed a smell while at a light. I get into a parking lot and I hear what sounds like.. metallic clanking/grinding behind the driver side front wheel. A bit of transmission whine and some grinding bit I can't pinpoint it. I get back into the car, check the Temps (all of them are fine) although my dash oil pressure was at 37psi idle which looked a bit low (I don't have much knowledge regarding those)..
And the noise was still there, didn't change with turning the wheel or throttle input, and then I thought.. maybe the transmission? Nope. Swapping gears was easy, no noise reduction out of gear or anything. It then went away for a bit, but smelled like burning plastic/material or something along those lines.
On the 5 minutes drive home after the noise went away.. I was checking settings, everything seemed fine. No limp, Trans was as smooth as ever. Clutch was grabbing good. Motor running good (from what I could tell)
Got home finally.. still smell the plastic or whatever the burning was, which was probably from the metal grinding noise I heard. Whistle like pitch with no set pattern and grinding is the best way to explain, louder than the motor idle too (very obvious).
I'm quite concerned. No car should be making those noises.
Did not sound healthy at all. I can't be descriptive enough for how odd it sounded... like.. a squeaky belt with some added metallic whirring/grinding and a bad smell.
Edit: Forgot to add in, while I was sitting in the car quietly listening to this.. the car almost died once, but I wasn't in gear or had the clutch pressed. Rpm dropped to 500 and almost died but came back on. (Very similar to what happens when you almost kill a car by letting clutch out so fast with not enough throttle)
Anyone else have this happen?
Taking to dealer in the morning. Hopefully I can repeat it, or at least have them check for whatever was melting/burning.
Anyways, I decide to go take it out for a spin. 30 minutes into the drive, I noticed a smell while at a light. I get into a parking lot and I hear what sounds like.. metallic clanking/grinding behind the driver side front wheel. A bit of transmission whine and some grinding bit I can't pinpoint it. I get back into the car, check the Temps (all of them are fine) although my dash oil pressure was at 37psi idle which looked a bit low (I don't have much knowledge regarding those)..
And the noise was still there, didn't change with turning the wheel or throttle input, and then I thought.. maybe the transmission? Nope. Swapping gears was easy, no noise reduction out of gear or anything. It then went away for a bit, but smelled like burning plastic/material or something along those lines.
On the 5 minutes drive home after the noise went away.. I was checking settings, everything seemed fine. No limp, Trans was as smooth as ever. Clutch was grabbing good. Motor running good (from what I could tell)
Got home finally.. still smell the plastic or whatever the burning was, which was probably from the metal grinding noise I heard. Whistle like pitch with no set pattern and grinding is the best way to explain, louder than the motor idle too (very obvious).
I'm quite concerned. No car should be making those noises.
Did not sound healthy at all. I can't be descriptive enough for how odd it sounded... like.. a squeaky belt with some added metallic whirring/grinding and a bad smell.
Edit: Forgot to add in, while I was sitting in the car quietly listening to this.. the car almost died once, but I wasn't in gear or had the clutch pressed. Rpm dropped to 500 and almost died but came back on. (Very similar to what happens when you almost kill a car by letting clutch out so fast with not enough throttle)
Anyone else have this happen?
Taking to dealer in the morning. Hopefully I can repeat it, or at least have them check for whatever was melting/burning.
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