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Subject: Re: [Mgs] rear end noise
From: Max Heim <mvheim@sonic.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:00:07 -0700
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Get the top down. The top bounces sound all over -- it's very hard to place
it, and it sounds much more serious than it is.

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Max Heim
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If you're near Menlo Park, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires


on 4/11/12 8:22 PM, Paul Root at ptrmgb@gmail.com wrote:

> So I've had my car out for 2 weeks now. Driven it twice. With the top up.
> 
> With the top up, the noise from the rear end is more pronounced.  It's also
> definitely louder on trailing throttle.
> 
> I think it's coming from the rear left, so I'm guessing it's not the diff.
> Perhaps the exhaust?
> 
> Does anyone have ideas? To me, it's not quite a grinding, but I don't know.
> 
> The second time out, I was actually teaching a kid to drive a stick. He just
> turned 18, has been an Eagle Scout since just under 15, and is going back to
> summer camp to be a councilor for the 4 year in a row. He's told this year
> he'll be driving the delivery truck, with a stick shift. He said he'd driven a
> stick only once before. He did very well. Of course, I started him with the
> choke way out, so it was hard to stall. But he picked it up quickly. Someday,
> I've got to teach my 17 year old, and my wife.
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