Context: I drive a 15+ year old SUV, and I am no longer in the position to just replace everything should anything bad happen. So sadly I will have to buy a newer car at some point. Hopefully not anytime soon 🤞🏼🤞🏼 But, I noticed when shopping with other people that newer cars sound weird. My knowledge of car troubleshooting is little more than sounds good/sounds bad, looks good/looks bad, smells good/smells bad, feels good/feels bad.

So, how are newer cars supposed to sound?

  • acetanilide@lemmy.worldOP
    3·
    3 months ago

    This is helpful, thank you. I wonder if it’s the injectors I was hearing then that sounded weird.

    Thanks for the heads up about the brake pedal. That would probably freak me out especially if the car’s detection system beeped at me for a random reason while I was braking.

    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      If its not the injectors, then its the high pressure fuel pump, but they sound very similar with a loud clicking. A similar sound to lifter ticking, if youve ever heard that sound before.

      Hybrids will also turn the engine off while driving sometimes, so that can sometimes scare people as well. So don’t be too scared if that happens on a test drive.

      Yeah I really hated driving hybrids and EVs around because of the brake pedal. I daily drive a car without power brakes or ABS so I am used to a really hard pedal and manually pumping the brakes. Hybrids and EV brake pedals basically just felt like another throttle pedal to me.