Help! my car sounds like death!!!

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  • structured
    E30 Modder
    • Sep 2008
    • 954

    #1

    Help! my car sounds like death!!!

    Does anybody know a good mechanic in Brooklyn? Maybe the surrounding boroughs?


    So yesterday my car started been making a terrible noise. I was driving home(Ocean pkwy for any locals) and I felt a small vibration in the shifter accompanied by a slightly metallic vibrating noise. If you can picture it, it sounded like the noise a long metal rod might make when spinning in a crappy bearing. It wasn't very loud, or a very big vibration, but I'm pretty sensitive to these things. It was quiet enough that a passenger probably wouldn't have noticed.

    Anyway, I drove straight home and turned the car off. When I started the car this morning, and when I got home from work, the noise was still present. So, I'm terrified of driving it to the mechanic that I use in Pelham. I need a local shop who knows what they're doing.
  • slo325i
    E30 Addict
    • Aug 2008
    • 417

    #2
    Rod knock???


    '89 325i - Totaled... good bye my love...
    '87 327i budget stroker - SOLD!!!
    '92 240sx - ca18det powered drift toy - SOLD!!!
    '89 325i - coupe - NEW daily
    '96 Audi A6 Quattro- Grocery getter/baby hauler
    '99 Busa - weekend wheelie monster

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    • structured
      E30 Modder
      • Sep 2008
      • 954

      #3
      I don't think knock. It was less rattle, more metal rubbing, scraping.

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      • E30SPDFRK
        Moderator
        • Jul 2007
        • 5687

        #4
        Originally posted by structured
        does anybody know a good mechanic in brooklyn? Maybe the surrounding boroughs?


        So yesterday my car started been making a terrible noise. I was driving home(ocean pkwy for any locals) and i felt a small vibration in the shifter accompanied by a slightly metallic vibrating noise. If you can picture it, it sounded like the noise a long metal rod might make when spinning in a crappy bearing. it wasn't very loud, or a very big vibration, but i'm pretty sensitive to these things. It was quiet enough that a passenger probably wouldn't have noticed.

        Anyway, i drove straight home and turned the car off. When i started the car this morning, and when i got home from work, the noise was still present. So, i'm terrified of driving it to the mechanic that i use in pelham. I need a local shop who knows what they're doing.
        csb?
        Byron
        Leichtbau

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        • structured
          E30 Modder
          • Sep 2008
          • 954

          #5
          may have been a bad description... focus on metal rubbing/vibrating noise, with a little bad bearing thrown in.

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          • E30SPDFRK
            Moderator
            • Jul 2007
            • 5687

            #6
            Car still shifts fine? Ebrake down all the way? Try to find the general area that the noise is coming from.
            Byron
            Leichtbau

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            • structured
              E30 Modder
              • Sep 2008
              • 954

              #7
              shifts fine. makes noise while stationary. has to be from engine or other moving parts in engine bay.

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