A foghorn in the baja?

Jul 12, 2003 4 Replies

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Brian McCloskey

Does this occur only when driving? If not, have you checked this out by looking under the hood when it occurs? It sounds to me like the electric rad fans kicking in, but I thought they were on constantly when the AC is on. Easiest test is to warm up the Baja, turn on the AC…

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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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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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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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