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Originally Posted by ermax
I just got a 2013 with 80K miles a few months ago and mine sounds like this in the same RPM band. It stressed me out because to me it sounds like rod knock but in the two months of owning the car it hasn't progressed at all and cold starts sound silky smooth unlike most cars when a rod bearing is on it's way out. I'm sort of just writing it off as a trait of this car. Maybe related to AVCS or direct injection. The other thing that makes me think it is NOT rod knock is that it only does it under light to medium load (at least on my car) where as rod knock is normally louder when there is no load or very very light load. I've destroyed a TON of rod bearings over the past 20 years so I've got a good idea of the warning signs.
Have you owned this car since it was new?
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Ya boxer engines make noises like nothing else and it takes some getting used to. Took me months to get over the fact that the injectors sound just like a lifter that is ready to self destruct at any second. If my old big block V8s had made most of the noises these things do I would have had them apart in a heartbeat.