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Old 12-28-2009, 05:51 PM
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my car breathes?!?!?
just noticed something right after i turned the engined off. heard my car breath like a whale. what's wrong?
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Old 12-28-2009, 05:56 PM
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It was breathing a sigh of relief that the stress over the oil separator valve had died down?

Sorry, couldn't resist. Air suspension?
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it's most likely the oil separator?
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No. My comment was that after all your stress over your oil separator, the car was simply breathing a sigh of relief. Joke.

More likely to be air suspension.
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jcl are you sure? i hear the sound from the hood.
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do you have an open element air filter? i have an afe kit in mine and i hear it "exhale" sometimes when i turn off the ignition
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yeah. there are a few that won't close.
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I hear mine do this everytime I turn it off. I figured it was normal, nobody else has this? It's kind of a hiss of air coming from what I assume is some emissions control device...
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that noise is normal on 6cyl, it is releasing the vaccum left inside the oil separator. if the engine did not make this noise, then the diagphram has failed.
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Had the car now for about 2months...and I ALWAYS hear it too right after turning ignition off. Good to know it's normal!
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