Got bored on tuesday and took it for a little spin, not far, it was under 400Km for the round trip.
Around 300Km into the trip there started to be a really load annoying whining sound. It’s not from the engine. I hope it’s just a wheel alignment problem.
Whining gets louder as speed increases, so probably just knocked a wheel out of alignment. Will get the wheels aligned see if it goes away. Tried to get that done today but I would have had to wait 3hrs so skipped it, will get a wheel alignment done in a lunch break in petone next week.
Assuming it doesn;t get worse of course, lots of night work next week in the hours public transport doesn’t run so can’t let it break down.
As for how the wheels could possibly become slightly out of alignment, there are passing lanes in NZ in a 100Kph zone that have corners marked max 55Kph in the passing lane, accelerate, break heavily, plant foot again, and doing above 55 on that and many other similar corners; and some of those passing lanes are so bumpy where the road sealing has just shredded. My little baby really will go from 30 to 100 in a few meters uphill but it’s a damb heavy car so a little wheel stress is expected when cornering on a road that could be made of farm judder/cow-trap bars I suppose.
Hope thats all it is, otherwise I might have twisted the crankshaft, but there is no vibration, yet.
