Very strange day for my new 4.8

[Scott in Cincy]

Yesterday, I was driving home from the office (about 110 miles one way) and I noticed the most awful wind noise coming from the front end of the car. At any speed over 75, there was a howling coming from the windshield area. Any ideas?

Also, my seatbelt light and chime started dinging while driving. Nothing I could do would make it stop. Then magically, it just stopped by itself. What gives?

Thanks for the ideas,
Scott

[YankeeBimmer]

I get it some times with my Bimmer,mostly from the drivers side.

[demondali]

Sometimes if you drive at excess speeds and your vents are shut. the air has no where to go so makes that sound.
Usually opening a vent or 2 will help i have found.
Hopefully thats what you were refering to?? Let me know if that works.

[UCrewX5]

Next time try running a pass of the windshield wipers. At certain positions at certain speeds they can cause a noise, and cycling them changes the position just enough to eliminate it.

[sageriders]

Did you have your brief case or other heavy item on the passenger seat? If so, that's what the problem was. Just buckle the belt across the empty seat and you'll be good to go. The dealer says that some seats are more sensitive to others on weight. I had the same problem, thought it out and came up with the solution. The other possibility, if you don't like having a belt across the empty seat, is to get a buckle insert from a wrecked car, and just slip it into the buckle receiver.

Mine seems to have gotten a bit better, now after a year, but still a bit touchy. The buckled belt on the empty seat doesn't bother me.

Good luck.

[Scott in Cincy]

Originally Posted by demondali

Sometimes if you drive at excess speeds and your vents are shut. the air has no where to go so makes that sound.
Usually opening a vent or 2 will help i have found.
Hopefully thats what you were refering to?? Let me know if that works.

Good idea, but they were all open

[The Big Easy]

Place some pressure on the inside of the uppermost part of the windscreen with your one hand whilst driving > 75 MPH. If this does decrese noise, your windscreen is loosening and needs to be refitted and resealed. Mine came loose, and the noise tended to increase incrementally from 70 MPH and up, so it was refitted and siliconed tight again.

Mabye this helps Scott?

Cheers,

[Jackay]

Originally Posted by UCrewX5

Next time try running a pass of the windshield wipers. At certain positions at certain speeds they can cause a noise, and cycling them changes the position just enough to eliminate it.

My guess is with UCrewX5. A few months ago, my wiper was at the position which wasn't right and as I travelled at high speeds, the wiper made some..loud weird noises(rubber sound). But as soon as I got it corrected, everything got back to normal.

[Curtis]

Scott,

Peridically I get that "houling" noise at speeds above 70mph. As said by another member in this thread, it seems to be related to the air ducts. In my situation it happens when my ducts are fully open in the cold (3 blue dots on vents) position.

[blondboinsd]

Yeah My window had to be redone as well it made a horrible howling sound on the freeway, its a well documented problem, unfortunatly its a bitch to get diagnosed by your dealer, took me almost 2 months!!!!!!!