So as many of you know I've been down at mrg getting my car fixed this week. Today was the day we were due to head home, yesterday I noticed a very slight what sounded like a high pitched whistle when driving at different speeds , when I say slight I mean if you didn't know the car you wouldn't notice it, anyway I thought I would tell mrg and they had a very quick look at it this morning as we where wanting to hit the road and get home , so they put the car on the lift and drove all four wheels , we heard nothing so I thought okay that's fine its nothing dangerous lets get going....... 40 miles up the road I hear what can only be described as a blunt drill , drilling stainless. I have heard this once before a few months ago but thought it must have been a stone in my calliper. It disappeared within a minute but I knew it wasn't good, I didn't know what to do so I called mrg, obviously it was hard to diagnose over the phone so they told me to go check my backing plates on my disks, I did this and they where fine so I drove off. Five minutes later it did it again , I went quite and didn't speak , Adrienne said go back to mrg just to be on the safe side, so we did. I got back and James the master tech was waiting outside for me, these guys are honestly the best I have met. So we went for a drive knowing that no way I will get that loud noise again , luckily he did hear that back ground whistle, so we found out it could be heard best at 48 and 70mph. By this time we had another tech in the back listening we where fairly stumped and actually thought it was something to do with my air box ....... Boy where we wrong, we took the car back onto the scissor lift and drove it at 48, guess what the loud noice was reproduced and guess where it was coming from.......... The ANGLE GEAR. Absolutely gutted they took a sample of oil from it and sure enough it had shrapnel in it. They have never seen one go like this , when they go it is usually instant BUT this could be because they haven't noticed the noise I noticed. Anyway we are back in a hotel, praying that the snow doesn't hold up the new gear coming. This has turned out to be a very expensive week.
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