Got back from 3 wks in south Fla. Battery nearly run down, but managed to start it so went shopping with chief shopper and I sat in car and let it run to charge battery. Noted a qiet noise like a pump running at times. This was yesterday. Today got in and drove out driveway and car front bottomed on the end of the driveway where it joins to street
- had never done that before. Parked it and came back out and couple of friends with me commented it looked low in the front. Drove off and parked it again and when I came out I noted the right front fender was down to the level of the tire and the left side wasn't. So I started it up and drove off to a place I was sure was level, got out and looked at it and it was level with the motor running. But I was suspicious, so I drove to stealership and asked the nice young people there about it. As we talked, the passenger front got lower and lower. At time when the nice young service writter measured it with a tape measure, there was about 1.5" difference in height. The wheel well was closer to the tire on the passenger side, and the top of the tire was nearly at the opening of the fender. The drivers side was higher, at a normal height. Service writter called the shop and the expert in the shop said it is normal for the car to sag when the motor is turned off and the car compensates for the drivers weight by raising the drivers side higher than the passenger. I have not noted this height difference before. Is this actualy true that there is a normal sag to the right of 1.5" when the engine is shut off? What is the "running pump" sound I hear likely to be - I did hear it again today.
Anyone else notice this heigth difference or pumping sound?