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In Reply to: Help - whooshing sound posted by cosmosmon on March 12, 2000 at 21:55:08:
: Help. I have a brand new, 3 day old 2.8 and am hearing a whooshing sound sort of like a fan motor from the rear of the car. Is this normal? It is especially noticeable with the top up and the car sitting still. Road noise will cover up the noise and lowering the top will let enough background noise in that you really have to listen closely to hear it. It seems to be coming from directly under the place where the subwoofer is. When the car is started, it takes several seconds before the noise becomes apparent. There is no noise outside the car - sounds perfect. So is this sound normal? Hard for me to say since the car is so new to me. BTW the car is running great and I love it.
I brought my 1 week old 2000 2.3 back to the dealer so the service manager could hear it. He claims he never heard it before and recommended bringing it back the next day, which I did. They had it 2 days, replacing fuel pump (behind seats), no difference. They had me bring it back when BMW engineer was going to be at dealership. He said it's normal. Says it's fuel returning to the tank, sort of dripping into the tank. That's why it takes 10 seconds or so for the noise to start. They also say it's more prominent when tank is more empty. Haven't found that to be totally true, though a bit more prominent when empty.
If it really is fuel falling into the tank (not what it sounds like to me, sounds more like air rushing), it would be a problem on every car made, that has been solved thousands of times. You would think BMW could solve it.
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