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A foghorn in the baja?

My husband's 2003 Subaru Baja has had a weird noise ever since purchase. We are taking it in to the dealer this week because of the CEL popping on (1600 miles), but as the noise is very intermittent, it's quite likely the dealer will not be able to hear it and therefore won't check/fix it. It sounds like a low DOOOOOOOOOOOO (foghorn) coming from the front end, almost always in hot weather and it appears to happen only when the AC is on. It's not continuous-just a low DOOOOOOOO then it stops and comes back a few minutes later. So far, it does not SEEM to appear when the AC is off, but we haven't driven enough with the problem to confirm this.

Any idea what we can have the dealer check?

H.

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Brian McCloskey

Hmm. I think it MAY have done it once or twice at idle sitting at a stoplight now that I think about it. It's REALLY annoying-first time it happened we thought it was the air brake of a truck next to us.

I'll try to check it out today if it happens, although I think my husband is scared to drive it much with the CEL on (I keep telling him it's probably just an o2 sensor, so I hope I am right there). The foghorn noise is much more annoying tho.

H.

featherz at mindspring dot com

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JaySee

That happned to me, and the passengers in my car got a funny look on their faces. I tightened the a/c belt, and it hasn't happened since. The belt was already fairly tight, but I tighteed it further.

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