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Title: Funny noise
Post by: Miacant on 05 February 2004, 15:13

Wonder what this might be....c when I park my car after a long drive say 25miles or more, I hear a loud clunging noise.

It comes on 5mins after parking the car and lasts within a sec or two. It sounds like a stone has been thrown at the central part of the exhuast system. ???

Well I was previously told that metal expand when hot and therefore make such noise.
One that my car makes is louder than normal. Quite loud indeed! Any advise please?

Cheers.

Title: Re:Funny noise
Post by: AdamB on 05 February 2004, 17:28

probably the exhaust after its cooled down.

Title: Re:Funny noise
Post by: modulater on 05 February 2004, 23:43

Yep thats the exhaust cooling down.

Title: Re:Funny noise
Post by: Miacant on 06 February 2004, 09:11

Was thinking of getting it checked out, shall I leave it as it is? Is it normal to make such loud noise?

Thanks Guys..

Title: Re:Funny noise
Post by: Gambit on 06 February 2004, 09:25

yeah its fine, just leave it

Title: Re:Funny noise
Post by: modulater on 07 February 2004, 11:38

The thing you will notice is the longer the drive the louder the noise.

Your exhaust is trying to dissipate more heat than it would it you just poped to the shops and back.

Title: Re:Funny noise
Post by: turbo on 08 February 2004, 01:18

i agree.....its your exhaust as long as you car drives ok
and isnt chucking out oil or coolent then i would say all is in order....

Title: Re:Funny noise
Post by: Miacant on 09 February 2004, 12:33

Cheers Modulater I couldn't agree with you more. It does exactly that. Louder over a long drive. At least I now know why it makes that loud noise.

Vwsys. thanks.

Cheers once again guys.

Title: Re:Funny noise
Post by: Fielder5757 on 10 February 2004, 10:31

Ya know, If it was somthing serious and he didnt bother getting it checked out and ended up having his car blow up.....You would all feel pritty goofy  ;D

Title: Re:Funny noise
Post by: modulater on 11 February 2004, 20:57

Quote from: Fielder5757 on 10 February 2004, 10:31

Ya know, If it was somthing serious and he didnt bother getting it checked out and ended up having his car blow up.....You would all feel pritty goofy  ;D

If it was something serious he would have known about by now.

Title: Re:Funny noise
Post by: Robke on 11 February 2004, 22:55

do 160or 180 km/h on the road ant then park your car, you will here very loud sound ;)

Title: Re:Funny noise
Post by: Miacant on 12 February 2004, 11:21

Thought of sharing this(Funny bit) with you. I purchased a new iron a few weeks ago. Last night after 30mins of ironing my shirts, I turned off the iron and started playing games on PC.  
Just like my valver the iron made similar clunging noise, very sharp and within secs.

Think my iron has a GTI genes in it!!  ???