I often hear strange noises coming from the passenger seat. weird or what?

Every motor I’ve had in recent years suffers badly from this...

Question: does it only happen who SWMBO is sitting there or when you're on your own?

My brother-in-law's old car seemed to suffer from this problem, though I'm not sure if his new one does, but then, I haven't been in the car as yet.

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Early days to be absolutely sure, but it seems that my "low flying aircraft noise" of last Sunday might be down to the technician at the Ford garage disconnecting the air con connection on the cooling fan, not reattaching it and leaving connector loose inside the fan shroud.

Being the time of year it is I haven't tried to use the aircon for a while ( I know: I should run it regularly) and neither had the cooling fan tried to run till the other day when I was stuck in a queue for 25 minutes. My fairly sound theory is that the fan has kicked in and the blades have hit this stray connector, causing the horrendous noise that I heard. I've reconnected whats left of it, and this morning I'll be checking whether both aircon and engine cooling connectors still work.

Meantime I also found the gearbox breather pipe flapping around under the bonnet, unrestricted by any attempt to clip it somewhere safe, and having checked online it seems that I just need to attach it to an immovable piece of metal or plastic to keep it out of the way.

And to think: I was ready to drive 30 miles back to the dealer and pay diagnostics to get it looked at.

Edited by argybargy on 22/11/2017 at 09:23

I did have another unidentified noise with the van. This one was even more frustrating/baffling/annoying because despite 2 seperate visits to the garage i use, they couldn't suss out what was causing it. And was something i had become increasingly aware of for at least 6 months up, to shortly after the fan belt being replaced. It wasn't really an intermittent noise as such, it wasn't 'random'. But at certain (regular) times it seemed to happen, and while it was sometimes very faint, at other times it was pretty loud. It was a ticking noise, which seemed to coincide with the wheels turning. From the drivers seat, it seemed to be (definately!) coming from the n/s front. Anyway, there was one day i'd started to work, but contrary to what the forecast said, the rain started in earnest. The noise had been particularly noticable on the way to where i had been working, so with it playing on my mind, i phoned the garage (again) to ask if they had time to have another look/listen. I should point out, that the mechanics had not actually heard the noise on either of the other 2 occasions i had asked them to investigate. I was told to come up, and all the way there i could hear the noise, to my ears, very loud!. Got there, the mechanic went out, came back and declared, again, that he couldn't hear anything!. Byt this time i was fit to burst and the boss suggested i take the van out, he would come with me and see if he could detect anything. I could hear the noise myself, though it was much quieter than it had been, but the owner of the garage wasn't so sure. Back at the garage, he put it up on the ramp again, for another look, 1st at the front n/s, then at the other 3 corners. After about 10 mins he shouted me over saying he had found a possible culprit, but not at the front, at the back. The handbrake cable was slightly loose and was very close to the n/s rear wheel, so close in fact, that it was catching on the balance weight on the inside of the wheel rim every time turned. He did point out that heat, length of run, weather, etc, could account for the fact that the noise was not constant. I was just delighted that it had been identified and sorted, though i am still baffled by why it sounded so much like it was coming from the front!