Hi, I am trying to figure out what part of the drive train in my 2014 CX-5 is making a whining noise.
I was finishing a trip from Florida (Port Canaveral) to Raleigh North Carolina last month, and towards the end of the trip I started to hear a whining noise, I got out and checked for leaks etc. but could not find anything obvious, all fluids that I could check seemed good. When driving slow(under 10 mph) you can not really hear it but faster than that you can. If I coast with it in Neutral the noise is still there. I have looked at CV Joints etc and everything looks normal. So even though they say its a lifetime AT, I went ahead and dropped the pan and looked at the fluid and the magnet... I would say the fluid should have been changed a long time ago, it was only slightly low :-( but the magnet had some stuff, I can't say if it was acceptable or not but it did not seem over the top. The gears shift fine (before and after the filter/new fluid) so I took it to AAMCO and they said that noise is coming from the transmission and they offered to put in a used one ($3,600 -with 66K miles), a refurbished one($5,400), and a new one for something like $10,000 (I don't remember this one well because it seemed unlikely that I would do that). So I did some research and it seems like this kind of noise is usually associated with the torque converter... but I can't find anyone that "works on transmissions" around here, everyone (2 other shops) wants to just put a different transmission in. Am I crazy thinking that its the torque converter and that it looks like it could be serviced?
I was finishing a trip from Florida (Port Canaveral) to Raleigh North Carolina last month, and towards the end of the trip I started to hear a whining noise, I got out and checked for leaks etc. but could not find anything obvious, all fluids that I could check seemed good. When driving slow(under 10 mph) you can not really hear it but faster than that you can. If I coast with it in Neutral the noise is still there. I have looked at CV Joints etc and everything looks normal. So even though they say its a lifetime AT, I went ahead and dropped the pan and looked at the fluid and the magnet... I would say the fluid should have been changed a long time ago, it was only slightly low :-( but the magnet had some stuff, I can't say if it was acceptable or not but it did not seem over the top. The gears shift fine (before and after the filter/new fluid) so I took it to AAMCO and they said that noise is coming from the transmission and they offered to put in a used one ($3,600 -with 66K miles), a refurbished one($5,400), and a new one for something like $10,000 (I don't remember this one well because it seemed unlikely that I would do that). So I did some research and it seems like this kind of noise is usually associated with the torque converter... but I can't find anyone that "works on transmissions" around here, everyone (2 other shops) wants to just put a different transmission in. Am I crazy thinking that its the torque converter and that it looks like it could be serviced?