How sensitive are you to a NEW noise in your vehicle?

Like you mate. A new noise needs investigating.

Phil

G'day Axle
I would get a pin and stick it into your brother inlaw. If he feels it you will know he has some sense of feeling and pain.
If he couldn't detect something wrong with steering and braking of the vehicle then he hasn't any degree of "feel" or his faculties are so impaired he shouldn't be driving.

A danger to himself and others.

If his wheel fault was left for a longer period it would have brought it to his attention is a most unexpected manner, maybe even killed someone else in the process, just after he lost control.

Obviously your BIL will never go nuts even though his nuts are gone.

Ross M
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Axle

I am no help but will digress anyway.

My son is a military trained flying instructor based in an overseas country.

He tells me of a student pilot doing a solo flight in the circuit area in a high performance turbo prop trainer aircraft. He hears a strange noise on down wind and hits the eject button! One aircraft into the sand.

Queried what the problem was and replied it was a strange noise! Good bye to approximately $6.2 million Australian Dollars. Plenty petro dollars to replace that one.

Yours was serious in comparison.

DW

Anything new that I think could be driveline or engine related I definitely get paranoid about and will investigate. But if we're talking about new creaks and rattles of interior trim or similar, I just put it down to the car building a little bit more character :D

I am very aware of any different noises in my cruiser.

In 2011 we were on the Gibb River Road, rattling along over the corrugations, and I was sure I could hear a noise that wasn't normal.

It turned out to be the lining in the front wheel arches being pushed onto the front wheels by my bullbar.

The bullbar had been installed without any Loctite, spring washers, nyloc nuts - nothing but ordinary nuts that rattled loose.

It only protruded very slightly above the bonnet line so I hadn't noticed that it was sitting forward at 45 degrees to its normal position. It was being held on by one or two loose remaining bolts and the wiring to the indicators.



If I hadn't stopped to find that noise it would have fallen off and gone under the vehicle. I can't imagine the consequences. Thank goodness our travelling companions had a big bag of nuts and bolts. We fixed it at the intersection of the GRR and Kalumburu Roads with plenty of silastic on the bolts.

I had some cross words with the original installer when we got home.

G'day Axle

On a recent trip I changed the SMS ring tone on the iPhone to something that said 'old car horn'. Scooting along at 100kph on the highway, with the iPhone sitting on the centre console, a horrible grating/groaning sound intruded. Mystified, I slowed down, listened intently, stopped, got out and investigated, then proceeded gingerly a few kms to Wagga. Then another text msg came in while I was refuelling, and the source of the sound was identified. I've changed the ring tone - that much I can manage.

Cheers
John

Sensing new noise wou be my job, I generally seem to be one that notices and at times gets annoyed by noises coming from our vehicle. Half the time my Husband doesn't even notice them, some times as you say it pays to check it out as it turns out to be something requiring attention.
We currently have a troopy andit annoys the bleep out of me not being able to figure out why the "rear doors" or something to that effect seem to make a intermittent sound (hard to describe). Just can't pinpoint it! If I know the cause fine, if not it will bug me until we at least find out or better still fix it!
But on the other hand I'm pretty much partially deaf in one ear which means it can be hard to hear a conversations when there is a lot of background noise, guess it's the same reason I can probably hear certain sounds more clearly when it's quiet (like mozzies lol).

Many ( many) years ago I was on the Oodnadatta track , via the Finke and heard a banging noise from the front of the vehicle.
I must point out that I was driving an XD Falcon auto at the time, with my S.I.L as a passenger.
Any way I stopped and nearly pulled the car to bits until I found that it was the bonnet hinges banging in their supports.
Later on I stopped near Arltunga and after investigating a suspicious noise I found the front L/H shocker seized.
I took it out and replaced it in Alice.
Nothing again till on the road between Glen Helen and Hermansberg a back shocker broke its mount, that was easy to identify, of course, but I nearly rolled it in the riverbed !

I still have the attitude that a 4WD isn't the duxgutz, but I don't do silly things these days ( ? )

(, or do I )


Ron