[Guest]

I had a weird experience today. I am trying to sell my 2002 Focus Wagon,
and a guy took it out for a test run on the freeway. He came back and said
that the car ran great, but it had some kind of tremendous vibrating noise
when running at speeds higher than 50 MPH. I had never heard it, so he took
me out to show me.

The noise is mainly there when one of the rear passenger windows is open.
No wonder I had never experienced it, as I never have any windows open when
driving the car.

I am not sure what it is, but the noise (kinda like "chug, chug, chug") is
quite severe and increases in intensity, but not frequency, as the speed is
increased past 50 MPH.

I think it may be some acoustic thing, caused by air buffeting in the cargo
area (the tonneau cover there was retracted, and I have not tested it with
it extended). It gets to be very loud, though, and we could feel the
pressure waves in our ears.

Have any of you here experienced anything like it? Any ideas?
--
Skitt (in Hayward, California)

 

[Guest]

Have the same problem in my 2000 wagon. The noise is even worse with both
windows cracked open.

 

[Guest]

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 01:33:05 GMT, "vjc" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Have the same problem in my 2000 wagon. The noise is even worse with both
>windows cracked open.
>


Yeah, my 00 Wagon does it too. At least now I know it is normal!

Matt
00 Focus Wagon

 

[Guest]

Matt Mead wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 01:33:05 GMT, "vjc" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>>Have the same problem in my 2000 wagon. The noise is even worse with both
>>windows cracked open.
>>
>
>
>
> Yeah, my 00 Wagon does it too. At least now I know it is normal!
>
> Matt
> 00 Focus Wagon
My '00 ZX3 does it with the sun roof open in the 25-40Mph range

 

[Guest]

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:29:19 -0800, "Skitt" <[email protected]>
wrote Re 2002 Focus Wagon wind noise?:

>I think it may be some acoustic thing, caused by air buffeting in the cargo
>area (the tonneau cover there was retracted, and I have not tested it with
>it extended). It gets to be very loud, though, and we could feel the
>pressure waves in our ears.

Yes, I have it on my 2005 ZX4. It's definitely acoustic. If you have
electric windows, you can change or eliminate it by moving the
position of the various windows.
--
To email me directly, remove CLUTTER.

 

[Guest]

Vic Dura wrote:
> "Skitt" wrote:

>> I think it may be some acoustic thing, caused by air buffeting in
>> the cargo area (the tonneau cover there was retracted, and I have
>> not tested it with it extended). It gets to be very loud, though,
>> and we could feel the pressure waves in our ears.
>
> Yes, I have it on my 2005 ZX4. It's definitely acoustic. If you have
> electric windows, you can change or eliminate it by moving the
> position of the various windows.

Great. Now I have to convince the potential buyer that that is all it is,
and to not open the rear windows when on the freeway. Why would one do that
anyway?
--
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
http://www.geocities.com/opus731/

 

[Guest]

my 2003 focus does the same noise

 

[Guest]

"Skitt" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]
> I had a weird experience today. I am trying to sell my 2002 Focus Wagon,
> and a guy took it out for a test run on the freeway. He came back and
said
> that the car ran great, but it had some kind of tremendous vibrating noise
> when running at speeds higher than 50 MPH. I had never heard it, so he
took
> me out to show me.
>
> The noise is mainly there when one of the rear passenger windows is open.
> No wonder I had never experienced it, as I never have any windows open
when
> driving the car.
>
> I am not sure what it is, but the noise (kinda like "chug, chug, chug") is
> quite severe and increases in intensity, but not frequency, as the speed
is
> increased past 50 MPH.
>
> I think it may be some acoustic thing, caused by air buffeting in the
cargo
> area (the tonneau cover there was retracted, and I have not tested it with
> it extended). It gets to be very loud, though, and we could feel the
> pressure waves in our ears.
>
> Have any of you here experienced anything like it? Any ideas?
> --
> Skitt (in Hayward, California)
>
my '01 wagon has the same wind noise at high speeds when the rear windows
are down little bit..the worst thing is that the rear windows are crank
operated.. if a passenger leaves them open and I hit the highway, I have to
pull off and crank them up to save my ears and sanity..

ahmet
Turkey
focus wagon 1.6 liter

 

[Guest]

It's not just Focii: it's pretty much every car made. My VW Passat wagon
used to the same thing if you cracked the rear window, and opening the
sunroof without opening a window at least an inch was sure to induce
migraines...

Jeff

 

[Guest]

"Jeff" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]
> It's not just Focii: it's pretty much every car made. My VW Passat wagon
> used to the same thing if you cracked the rear window, and opening the
> sunroof without opening a window at least an inch was sure to induce
> migraines...
>
> Jeff
yep almost every car I have ever owned exhibited the same problem.