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Originally Posted by Dang Lad
Glad some others are having this issue. I drove around some more today and tried to hone in on it. Here's what I found:
- Sounds like a distant horn (could be described as high-pitched whirring as well). The first few times I heard this, thought it was someone actually honking at me or the actual car horn going off.
- Happens about 80% of the time when engaging the clutch/gear (releasing the clutch pedal) around 4500-5000 RPM.
- Doesn't happen when disengaging or just hitting that engine speed in neutral.
- I was able to reproduce engaging into 2nd, 3rd, and even 4th at those RPM.
- No perceptible drop in performance or RPM related that I could sense.
- Been occurring for last week or so.
-- Could be due to cold, but also could be due to age of vehicle.
- I'm around 4600 miles on the car, had it since May 2012.
I'm going to speak with the dealer about it when I take it in for 5k service - probably next week.
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Pretty accurate for me, except I shift lower when not hooning around. I find it honks more when driving easy. It has not gotten any worse since June. I also agree that it's more common when it's cold out (Canada, I'm winter driving it)
I am certainly not dealing with the dealer until they know exactly what the issue is. It's not the gears - it's the clutch or flywheel. Whether it's bad or not, can't say.