New car, New Mystery Buzz..

[dave r]

Do you happen to know where the car had previously been kept?

I have to park mine under a weeping willow tree, I was careful about clearing leaves out of the intakes and vents, but a couple did find their way into the fascia trunking. This resulted in a high-pitched buzzing sound at certain speeds. These willow leaves are extremely tough and take forever to rot down, they eventually emerged at high speed on the A1 !!
Dave.

[Velorum]

Originally Posted by dave r

Do you happen to know where the car had previously been kept?

I have to park mine under a weeping willow tree, I was careful about clearing leaves out of the intakes and vents, but a couple did find their way into the fascia trunking. This resulted in a high-pitched buzzing sound at certain speeds. These willow leaves are extremely tough and take forever to rot down, they eventually emerged at high speed on the A1 !!
Dave.

Yup, Ive had exactly the same thing with three of my 240's. Sometimes leaves get wedged at such an angle in the air vent ducting that they function like reeds in a woodwind instrument. If only they had fitted a fine mesh to the vents in front of the windscrean as they did with later models..............

[usol]

Hi all,

Been away for a week or so but reading through the posts the "reedy" sound seems to closest reflect what I hear from my car.

Is there any way of cleaning or blasting the vents out?
The noise is unbearably loud and is doing my head in.

In fact the combination of this sound (at speed), and the intrusive whine of the fuel pump system (much more audible at low speeds) are turning my ownership of a GLT into a nightmare already (My girlfriend won't even get in it now!)

I really don't want to have to ditch it for a eurobox.

And now the sunroof seems to have dropped on its runners (it no longer sits flush) and the offside bonnet hinge has snapped.
And the fuel gauge doesn't work.

I wonder what the scrappy would give me for her?