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      10-20-2021, 02:57 PM   #1
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Random whining from engine

Maybe I’m being super paranoid here, but just lately I’ve noticed a whine coming directly from the top of my engine.. I’ve never managed to capture it on video until now due to how random it is

https://youtube.com/shorts/pB1Z3tLq2YM

Is there anything I should be possibly checking?
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What's the timestamp? I could hear anything over the ticking really lol
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OP will correct me if I'm wrong but there's a kind of buzzing sound that start around the middle of the video. strangely I can't see the timestamp with the exact time.
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What's the timestamp? I could hear anything over the ticking really lol
0:05 it kicks in

It happens every time I start up and idle now, noticed it last night.. it came on within about a minute of starting up and seemed to come and go every other few minutes
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Maybe I’m being super paranoid here, but just lately I’ve noticed a whine coming directly from the top of my engine.. I’ve never managed to capture it on video until now due to how random it is

https://youtube.com/shorts/pB1Z3tLq2YM

Is there anything I should be possibly checking?
I have heard similar sounds in my car. I noticed that it is likely to appear after driving fiercely. When I turned off the air conditioner and tried to find the location where the sound was made, it disappeared. Do you turn on the air conditioner?
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I have heard similar sounds in my car. I noticed that it is likely to appear after driving fiercely. When I turned off the air conditioner and tried to find the location where the sound was made, it disappeared. Do you turn on the air conditioner?
I do yeah, I'll monitor mine with and without.

Dare I say it, the first time I ever noticed it was after an oil change and I had used an oil flush for the first time. Literally the second I started it back up, it could just be a total coincidence or possibly related.
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I do yeah, I'll monitor mine with and without.

Dare I say it, the first time I ever noticed it was after an oil change and I had used an oil flush for the first time. Literally the second I started it back up, it could just be a total coincidence or possibly related.
Collect a oil sample for oil analysis at the next oil change
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