I brought my 2011 Focus to the dealership service center yesterday for a vibration/shudder that I've noticed for...several thousand miles. Long boring story, turned out to be a broken engine mount bracket. They replaced the part, vibration/shudder is gone. According to the service invoice, they replaced this bracket and checked the tires/fluid levels. No other maintenance.
When I got in the car (it was already running since one of the tech's drove it up to the office area), put it in drive, pressed the gas and rolled forward I heard a sound like water sloshing around in the dashboard area. Somewhere around the center of the dash area. My first thought was "You've got to be kidding me. There's no way I hear this..." I drove forward a little more and heard it again. Stopped, rolled forward again...still sloshing. Pulled back up to the service center and went back inside to see if I could get someone to listen to it. (Rather embarrassed about the whole thing because really, it sounds like a pretty crazy thing to think you're hearing.) The tech who has been working on my car came back out and went for a ride with me. It stopped shortly after he got in the car, but he was able to hear it. His only suggestion was that it might be condensation in the...something-or-other lines and said to give them a call if I keep noticing it or if I notice it doing anything else strange.
I've read a few other posts today about water sloshing sounds like this coming from the cooling system. I haven't had any issues with the car's cooling system and all the systems checked out okay according to the service ticket. I don't understand how I take the car in to have a broken engine mount bracket replaced and leave with this weird water sloshing noise. Of course I guess it's possible that the water sloshing noise has been there for a while and I haven't been able to hear it because of the noise from the broken bracket. The car has 20,000 miles on it already. I first started noticing the noise/vibration from the engine mount bracket over 10,000 miles ago...but no one else heard it or felt it.
Is the water sloshing noise something I should be too concerned about? If it's just going to be there for a few minutes and then goes away and doesn't hurt anything, I can deal with it. I just don't want to ignore it and let it turn into a big problem. My daily commute is close to 70 miles round trip, shoulder-less country roads the whole way, the only reason I brought a new car was to avoid having to deal with various weird car issues. This is also my only vehicle and my work hours aren't "normal", so when I bring the car into the shop I have to get a rental. Really stinks having to pay $50/day for a rental while I'm still making car payments! (I've only had the car eight months and it's spent three nights at the shop in the past month and a half.)
When I got in the car (it was already running since one of the tech's drove it up to the office area), put it in drive, pressed the gas and rolled forward I heard a sound like water sloshing around in the dashboard area. Somewhere around the center of the dash area. My first thought was "You've got to be kidding me. There's no way I hear this..." I drove forward a little more and heard it again. Stopped, rolled forward again...still sloshing. Pulled back up to the service center and went back inside to see if I could get someone to listen to it. (Rather embarrassed about the whole thing because really, it sounds like a pretty crazy thing to think you're hearing.) The tech who has been working on my car came back out and went for a ride with me. It stopped shortly after he got in the car, but he was able to hear it. His only suggestion was that it might be condensation in the...something-or-other lines and said to give them a call if I keep noticing it or if I notice it doing anything else strange.
I've read a few other posts today about water sloshing sounds like this coming from the cooling system. I haven't had any issues with the car's cooling system and all the systems checked out okay according to the service ticket. I don't understand how I take the car in to have a broken engine mount bracket replaced and leave with this weird water sloshing noise. Of course I guess it's possible that the water sloshing noise has been there for a while and I haven't been able to hear it because of the noise from the broken bracket. The car has 20,000 miles on it already. I first started noticing the noise/vibration from the engine mount bracket over 10,000 miles ago...but no one else heard it or felt it.
Is the water sloshing noise something I should be too concerned about? If it's just going to be there for a few minutes and then goes away and doesn't hurt anything, I can deal with it. I just don't want to ignore it and let it turn into a big problem. My daily commute is close to 70 miles round trip, shoulder-less country roads the whole way, the only reason I brought a new car was to avoid having to deal with various weird car issues. This is also my only vehicle and my work hours aren't "normal", so when I bring the car into the shop I have to get a rental. Really stinks having to pay $50/day for a rental while I'm still making car payments! (I've only had the car eight months and it's spent three nights at the shop in the past month and a half.)
. I do love my Ford Focus!
