Quit whining about a whining

[BritNowInOhio]

On Monday, the car developed a whining, all of a sudden.
Similar to the sound of brakes dragging but manifesting as more of a hum, than a grate. It was attached to vehicle speed, not engine speed, it disappeared at standstill and didn’t show itself if you revved up the engine in park.
My mind was already racing through the possibilities.

A bearing getting ready to explode?
Imminent gearbox failure?

Day off today and I take the car into the dealer, it’s still doing the noise. They ask me to pull it into their staging area and he acknowledges the whining as I do so.
”I think I have an idea, give us a few minutes”
They take it into their bays out back and someone returns about five minutes later holding a highly distressed, plastic coffee cup lid.
”This had got stuck underneath”
?

Whine gone, and I can quit whining.

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[ScareCrow]

They take it into their bays out back and someone returns about five minutes later holding a highly distressed, plastic coffee cup lid.
”This had got stuck underneath”

That's some crazy ?

 

[Chiefthepup]

lol similar thing happened to me. Shortly after purchase I developed a gnarly rock in a tin can sound while driving coming from rear end.
Took it in thinking a bearing or idk what went bad
A pinecone had lodged its way between the rotor and rotor shield lol

 

[fjbear!]

On Monday, the car developed a whining, all of a sudden.
Similar to the sound of brakes dragging but manifesting as more of a hum, than a grate. It was attached to vehicle speed, not engine speed, it disappeared at standstill and didn’t show itself if you revved up the engine in park.
My mind was already racing through the possibilities.

A bearing getting ready to explode?
Imminent gearbox failure?

Day off today and I take the car into the dealer, it’s still doing the noise. They ask me to pull it into their staging area and he acknowledges the whining as I do so.
”I think I have an idea, give us a few minutes”
They take it into their bays out back and someone returns about five minutes later holding a highly distressed, plastic coffee cup lid.
”This had got stuck underneath”
?

Whine gone, and I can quit whining.

Darn road trash when will people learn. Lol. Congrats it was nothing more.

 

[Rockboz]

I remember reading about this years ago. Somebody pulled up to the garage and told the mechanic that there was a whine. This was from Australia, and ir was a mattress.

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