Hi all,
Hoping for some advice, sorry for the long thread. My S3 is just under two months old and yesterday morning driving in to work it developed a really annoying buzzing sound.
I was on a call when I first noticed it so just assumed it was a dodgy line but after the call ended and the radio came back on the noise was still there, muting the radio didn’t affect it, it’s not mega loud but even with music on you can still hear it.
It sounds like buzzing but it could be something vibrating/resonating so quickly that it’s actually a small rattle that sounds like a buzzing, if that makes sense?
The noise appears regardless of speed at around 2100-2200 rpm and I guess is something affected by the resonance of the engine or exhaust at this rev range. This doesn’t happen at all when the car is cold, it comes in after 15-20 mins of driving.
I’ve done the obvious like removing everything from the car, glove box, cup holders, doors etc. I’ve retracted the MMI screen, tried pressing on the clear plastic dash window (in front of speedo/DIS), moved/held vents, and nothing seems to affect it. It sounds like it’s near the front of the dash in the centre, behind the vents/under the MMI screen but these noises tend to play tricks on you!
Might be something important but this noise only seems to appear in manual/sport in dynamic mode, normal ‘drive’ doesn’t cause this (resonance related?).
The only thing I could find on the net that looked relevant was from the TT forums where someone said this could be a faulty soundaktor.
My questions are:
1) Is this something obvious to the more knowledgable or maybe someone has come across this on a new 8V S3?
2) If I try disabling the soundaktor with Carista and that doesn’t fix it, would there be any warranty issue with me having used Carista? Can the dealership tell you’ve used it? Are they bothered?
Any advice appreciated, other than that loving the car!
Cheers
Hoping for some advice, sorry for the long thread. My S3 is just under two months old and yesterday morning driving in to work it developed a really annoying buzzing sound.
I was on a call when I first noticed it so just assumed it was a dodgy line but after the call ended and the radio came back on the noise was still there, muting the radio didn’t affect it, it’s not mega loud but even with music on you can still hear it.
It sounds like buzzing but it could be something vibrating/resonating so quickly that it’s actually a small rattle that sounds like a buzzing, if that makes sense?
The noise appears regardless of speed at around 2100-2200 rpm and I guess is something affected by the resonance of the engine or exhaust at this rev range. This doesn’t happen at all when the car is cold, it comes in after 15-20 mins of driving.
I’ve done the obvious like removing everything from the car, glove box, cup holders, doors etc. I’ve retracted the MMI screen, tried pressing on the clear plastic dash window (in front of speedo/DIS), moved/held vents, and nothing seems to affect it. It sounds like it’s near the front of the dash in the centre, behind the vents/under the MMI screen but these noises tend to play tricks on you!
Might be something important but this noise only seems to appear in manual/sport in dynamic mode, normal ‘drive’ doesn’t cause this (resonance related?).
The only thing I could find on the net that looked relevant was from the TT forums where someone said this could be a faulty soundaktor.
My questions are:
1) Is this something obvious to the more knowledgable or maybe someone has come across this on a new 8V S3?
2) If I try disabling the soundaktor with Carista and that doesn’t fix it, would there be any warranty issue with me having used Carista? Can the dealership tell you’ve used it? Are they bothered?
Any advice appreciated, other than that loving the car!
Cheers
