WHAT IS THAT WHISTLE!!!!!

[Kile Brekke]

It is driving me crazy. I cannot find where this whistling is coming from. About 25 mph it starts happening and at 65- its a solid tune. It is definitely coming from outside the car. Driver side. Its not leaking through weather stripping or anything.

I thought it might be the wind passing the mirror or the antenna or something but if I put my hand to deflect any wind nothing changes.

Is this common? Am I missing something obvious here???

please help i might be going crazy.

I wish I could say it was the supercharger or the turbo, but unfortunately i am not equipped with such!

thanks!!!

-kile

[Anschauer]

Sunroof?

Try revving the engine a wee bit with the hood open. You could have a vacuum leak someplace.

[BLUNT]

start taping up small sections of your hood beltline until you locate the whistle. use blue painters tape. youll find it.

[bill.in.mt]

STOP SHOUTING please.

It may be from the chrome trim - one way to isolate it is to cover everything with masking tape, then peel pieces off until the sound starts again - or vica-versa.

[JLENHAM]

If it makes you feel better, you are not alone. I think Mike Self (or Steve, or Bill... ) describes a method by which you use painters tape to cover up various trim gaps etc. until you find the guilty party.

I am with you, to me the whistle should change when you use your hand as a deflector if you are near the offending area, and therefore I wonder if is is coming from a more forward location.

Let us know if you track it down, then we can start on my dash rattles...

[TobyB]

yeah, tape everything- antenna support, end of the drip rail,

all of the sealing areas around the doors, vent windows, etc.

It's easier to tape up a chunk of the car, test it, and then if you've got it,

start removing tape until it returns...

and don't rule out things like the vent window top hinge, either.

t

[Guest Anonymous]

thanks I will try taping. makes sense. I plan removing my trim anyway, so if that is the culprit, that makes it an easy fix!

Oh and by the way.... I HAVE TO YELL BECAUSE THIS WHISTLE IS SOO LOUD. sorry

[nbcbird]

Yes, I agree with Bill that all cap lettering is a bit much, but for a more pragmatic reason--all cap lettering is simply harder to read.

[BillWilliams]

the sunroof crank or the rearview mirror. How that sound travels down is puzzling.

[2002Monster]

I shaved mine off because of it....

I only have the sound of the M10 to entertain me....maybe an i-Pod with earphones....

[eastsidebimmer]

.....and it gives the wildlife about 6 more seconds of advance notice to get out of my way!

Ben

[tjones02]

'02 owners have been looking for that whistle since the things were new. I tend to feel that it's just one of the little quirks that go with the cars. Mine has it and I know for a fact that with my car as bent and twisted as it is I'd drive myself crazy if I tried to find it.

There's a few questions that pop up here that just make me chuckle as I read it, and this is one of them.

All the above suggestions are on the right track. I recommend wide blue, green or purple masking tape as it sticks well enough for the purpose and leaves no adhesive behind like duct tape does. I would start with removing the antenna and taping the holes. Followed by folding the mirror flat. Then checking the gaps in the hood to nose, test taping those. Follow through systematically and methodically through ALL the possibilities. Door seals, sunroof seal, side window seals, grilles, holes in the radiator bulkhead, air passing through the front gap in the hood, air passing past suspension parts under the car, miss aligned windshield, wiper arm, missing or bad hood to heater area seals..... the list goes on seemingly forever.

Every '02 I have tracked the whistle on, it was something different nearly every time. Some just could not be found. As far as I am concerned '02s just plain whistle and there's nothing to be done about it w/o pulling ones hair out.

So, if you do track your mysterious '02 whistle down please let us know what you find. As you will have solved one of these cars quirky mysteries.

[cj]

It's happy!

Cris

[c.d.iesel]

try a different /NEW engine water pump fan blade

[Guest Anonymous]

vent wing window passenger side. tape the verticle rubber seal from the outside. that may be it.