Got bored on tuesday and took it for a little spin, not far, it was under 400Km for the round trip.
\nAround 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Hope thats all it is, otherwise I might have twisted the crankshaft, but there is no vibration, yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading