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Odd almost scraping sound when at a stop

Discussion in 'Prime Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting' started by PriscillaPrius, Dec 28, 2017.

  1. PriscillaPrius

    PriscillaPrius Junior Member

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    Getting almost a scraping sound while stopped with foot on the brake. No sound if car on and stoped with parking button pushed. What is this about?
     
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    Here’s a video of the sound it’s making. Volume needs to be all the way up

     
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    wow, that's a weird one. I have a gen 2, 3 and prime and I've never heard anything like that. normally there's a bit of a gear/grinding noise when undergoing regeneration at low speeds, but that certainly doesn't sound like what the video is showing. it's almost as if the regeneration is cutting in and out rather than running continuously. I would expect if that's the case that the ecu would detect a fault and show the check-engine light, but I assume it didn't so either it's really rare and the engineers didn't think to try to detect or it's something else. in any case it doesn't sound normal.
     
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    Yep no lights on. Puzzling.
     
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    I don’t hear any grinding or gear noise in regen on my 07. Very quiet.

    Op probably has corroded brake rotors they make a racket in the first few stops. Probaby the car is not garaged. Need to clean the brake rotors.
     
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    Negative, turned out to be the actuator.