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    Default Honda Civic weird noise

    I found someone on a Civic forum with exactly the same issue as my car - just started in the past week. A weird noise when backing up, followed by a different noise when going forward. It is intermittent. The videos below are his - but EXACTLY the same noise.

    Sound when backing up


    Going forward - listen for what sounds like a chain dragging on the ground.


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    Default Re: Honda Civic weird noise

    Hrmm, havnt heard those on my end...

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    Default Re: Honda Civic weird noise

    Check CV joints and bearings

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    Default Re: Honda Civic weird noise

    cv joints will make a clicking sound when bad & most noticeable when turning. The boot gets an tear or pinhole and loses grease and the rest is history. Bearings are likely to make a grinding sound. Difficult to determine here but that sounds like brakes.

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    Default Re: Honda Civic weird noise

    Quote Originally Posted by dr_King View Post
    cv joints will make a clicking sound when bad & most noticeable when turning. The boot gets an tear or pinhole and loses grease and the rest is history. Bearings are likely to make a grinding sound. Difficult to determine here but that sounds like brakes.
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    The sound when backing is done w/o brakes applied. I poked around some Civic forums and several people posted the same thing, but no follow ups. I'll let you know when I actually find the culprit. (Also, the car has 55k on it, but pretty much the bulk of those miles (95%) are very long distance interstate driving with zero use of brakes - the brakes look like new).


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    Default Re: Honda Civic weird noise

    almost sounds like a vacuum noise in the reverse video.

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    Quote Originally Posted by voyager7 View Post
    almost sounds like a vacuum noise in the reverse video.
    I had this over the weekend, and I was in a big parking lot, so went back fast/slow, the faster I went the louder the weird noise was. It did not stop until the car came to rest. I'll chime back when I figure it out.


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    Default Re: Honda Civic weird noise

    Hope you find it. That is a strange noise.

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    So the weird part was that I just put another 2200 miles on the car going back to CA last weekend and back. The noise was sometimes present going TO California, but stopped completely on the drive back. Weird.


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    Default Re: Honda Civic weird noise

    I almost want to say it was something like a scraping shroud that has worn away to the point of no longer scraping. The problem is that it doesn't sound like scraping in the video.

 

 

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