5 Worst Car Sounds Indicating Major Repairs Needed - DamagedCars.com Guide
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- Hearing strange noises from your car? You're not alone. In this essential guide, we dive into the 5 worst sounds your vehicle can make and what they could mean for its health. From the alarming screech of a bad CV joint to the unmistakable groan of a seized engine, we cover it all. Each sound is a crucial indicator that something might be wrong under the hood, including issues like thrown rods, flooded engines, and bad transmissions.
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Video Chapters:
0:00 - Five of the Worst Sounds You Can Hear From Your Car
0:12 - Seized Engine Noise
0:21 - Bad CV Joint: Recognize the Noise
0:30 - Thrown Rod Noise
0:38 - Flooded Engine Noise
0:46 - Bad Transmission Noise
1:00 - How DamagedCars.com Can Help You
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You forgot one. The deafening silence when you turn the key.
Probably a dead battery
@@NeedForSpeed.2004 yeah, I know.
@@toxive2028 Dead battery really isn't much considering all it'll usually need is just a jump
@@NoorquackerInd I’m not sure why people feel the need to reply with obvious information.
@@toxive2028 dead battery aint that big of a deal bud just get a jump
Pro tip: *Turn up the radio if you hear these noises, it’s way cheaper than fixing the problem*
This saved me the cost of a mechanic, cheers!
Thanks man , works perfect 👌😍
Lmao 😂
Be sure to include putting a piece of electrical tape over the check engine light also.
Until 3 months later, when that increasingly loud knocking sound turns into a massive thud, and then silence.
Nothing is worse than an explosion sound before you see a big fire coming out of the engine compartment, thankfully it has been survived.
Bassam salim
I’ve had that happen plenty of times running nitrous with nitrous backfires. Most of the time it would just blow the intake box apart or elbow off the throttle body but every now and again I would get big one that would blow the box into pieces or blow out a head gasket. All I can say is thank god for arp head studs, they’ve saved me a lot on stretched head bolts lol.
I’ve thrown a rod before.
My dads 80s supra caught fire but still worked
Was forced to drive 10km on an engine that had exploded and sent bits down the road once. Saw flames coming from the engine compartment, and knew the car would never go again, but had no choice as I live in the middle of nowhere, and it was 2am. Definitely wasn't firing on all cylinders, and was gradually getting slower, but it made it. Somehow it still cranked over after that, albeit with the sound of a bucket of nails coming out of it.
*when you realize that your engine is making all of these noises*
Not possible though.
how is your engine gonna make a transmission noise?
Hahaha these people don’t realize it’s a joke^^ 🤦🏻♂️
@@lol-un6nl lol
Stop 💔
The sound of a damaged transmission will haunt me for the rest of my life after this
Deadass I’m fucked
I've had one before, it was bad. Took two weeks to get it fixed.
Anyone know exactly what that sound is from? My tranny started doing making this sound I drive a 2012 Camaro manual
At least it's only the transmission. If not careful that could lead to the whole engine lol.
@@ha1615209 well what it means sir is that you're completely fucked
I love how on the one with the flooded engine you can hear the guy still pumping the gas :)
+Platnium MPC It's just the engine getting even more flooded :)
actually the gas pedal gives it air not gas, it's what you want to do.
Yes, but you want to hold the throttle wide open instead of pumping it. That way, you won't be operating the accelerator pump, which is usually the culprit when people inadvertently flood an engine. Also works well for a hot engine that is vapor locked!
@@Cruz474 Not on a carbonated engine. Pumping the gas actuates the accelerator pump which squirts gas into the intake. Holding the gas down would be giving it more air.
everyone does that as soon as they hear that noise, they just hope it isnt true and pump harder
Don't forget the accidental down shift. Money shift
Experience With Me clunk
Yee every time I did this learning I always caught myself thank god
Experience With Me that hurts...so much
Waaaaaa waaaaaa WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA SHIT
No problem with a Flathead as it's probably not going to bend valvles
Bad CV joint is a minor repair. Far from "5 worst".
Vitamin B eh it can go from minor to somewhat major if left alone for too long my accord had to have its entire axle replaced because of that lol.
It's just easier to replace the entire axle shaft. You're not special.
Vitamin B not saying that I was? I'm just speaking from personal experience here but go ahead and be that way. 🤷♀️
You don't seem to understand that an axle shaft is never a major repair. It is quick and cheap to replace.
same with flooded. in a non carby all you do is jam your foot on the gas and crank it over till it clears out. or pull the fuel pump fuse and crank it till it clears out. hardly one of the worst noises hahahaha
The first sound (seized engine) also sounds a lot like a (mostly) dead battery or bad starter, so don't immediately condemn your car without having it checked if it makes that sound. Also, the flooded engine sound in modern fuel injected cars is more likely "out of gas" or "failed fuel pump" or even "blown fuse/relay", all very repairable. Finally, the bad CV joint is relatively inexpensive to fix on most cars, especially if you do it early before it fully separates.
The "thrown rod" (really, more likely a "bad rod bearing") is definitely a bad sign and will often be associated with low oil pressure. If you experience these symptoms, the best thing you can do is shut the engine off and have it repaired immediately. Continuing to drive it will only ensure the engine gets completely destroyed.
There are other things that can make the "thrown rod" sound, most are pretty serious, so if in doubt have it looked at.
my old car made the "seized engine" sound solely during the first 1-2 minutes after i turned it off. any idea if it could've still been the battery or starter in that circumstance?
@@jamespierce8169 My immediate suspicion based on your description is that it’s electrical. Hot wires have higher resistance, so if a wire (or more likely, a connection) just “barely” works when cool or cold, it can completely stop working when hot.
Of course there are many wires and connections that all need to work perfectly to turn the starter, but first thing I’d be doing in your case is checking the battery cables, especially the terminals (ends). The terminals on the battery itself are often exposed to acid, and the cable attached to the starter (bottom of the engine) is exposed to a lot of moisture, salt, and road grime.
The “quick and dirty” method I’ve used in the past to diagnose a cable is have someone sit in the car and turn the key to start, then I move the cables around, gently at first, then more aggressively - from above and below the car. If I can get the starter to do something, bingo, it’s a cable - and often the problem is between the copper wire and the terminal.
If that doesn’t work, I break out the multimeter and start looking for voltage to the start solenoid, which is the next thing I’d be suspecting in your case. There are solder joints, windings, and a big plate inside that all need to be electrically sound.
Now, it’s POSSIBLE you had a severe overheat condition in which case the engine can “seize” when it’s hot, but turn again when cool. But if your engine ran fine until you shut the key off, I wouldn’t suspect that at all.
@@truthsmiles my 82 Corolla does the same since I bought it not running. I’ve changed the oil but it’s still the same
@@thegreatafrican3367 Is the engine free? Like, can you turn it over with a wrench on the crankshaft pulley?
the opel/vauxhall corsa sound compilation XD
Turbotube So that's why a guy with a Corsa was roasting my 206. Knows all the noises
@KeSean Woods not the same company but all based under the same company.
@KeSean Woods most modern cars do
@KeSean Woods i agree
funnily enough i have a corsa c and am trying to indentify a noise in 4th gear when i accelerate
Nothing worse than the sound of a seized engine. Dreadful.
AaronArmstrong030792 It's so dreadfully the sound reaches a new frequency we can't hear
It could just be a broken starter.
Sounds like the battery is dead.
I thought a seized engine means the pistons/camshaft/gearbox is stuck and wont move
AaronArmstrong030792 you say that like it happens a lot
Seriously though, the sound of a thrown rod is almost how my car sounds on very cold mornings (colder than 20 degrees F). It's so bad I have to let it warm up before I start moving since it makes me cringe.
It’s Not a thrown rod but are the lifters that are Not lubricated Well. After few seconds it disappear.
@@aian9597 The oil is thinner at those temperatures also. Lots of things can cause tapping like that. Could be carbon build up or valve ping from pre-ignition. Sometimes it's even the valves snapping shut if you have an aggressive cam. I think you're right, though. Motors will tap on startup sometimes because it takes time to pull the oil up from the pan.
ive heard quite a few that makes that sound on the street while they drive past, now I know what it means
That's called Piston Slap or false rod knock. It's very common on subarus.
@@michaelarkell5437 this was on an 02 Camry
Flooded engine is not bad. There’s a trick. Push the pedal all the way down when you run the starter. It won’t give the engine any more gas and allow the engine to clear.
i hear lots of trucks with a bad CV joint
trucks or pickups?
A lift is fine if it’s done right. You can’t thrown on a basic Rough Country kit on a pickup and expect it to ride nice.
Griffin Dilks Smart
a lot of trucks don't even have CV axles
@@KrikZ32 4wd?
OMFG can you PLEASE put one of these together with just every possible noise imaginable? Need it so I can let friends hear what their problems sound like.
Some of the noises sound the same sometimes or have very minute differences that depend on the engine and part specs, a connecting rod knocking on one car could sound like a damaged catalytic converter on another or even the same car, and there's also the noises being separate for idling vs running, shifting up or shifting down, etc..I am a newbie but this is what I've gathered from being wrong a couple times.
I hydrolocked my engine with gas, one of the injectors was stuck open and flooded the cylinder, luckily the fix was quick
Full engine rebuild was quick.
@@jwalster9412 that’s what I was thinking 😂 maybe it was a honda or something back when k series were like 300 bucks running. Pay the guy to swap it and come back in a week
That’s the “quickest” fix i can think of
Thank you so much for this video! I was googling and trying TH-cam for ages trying to find the right noise that my car makes and now thanks to this video I know its my CV joints!! Thank you!!
0:30 a subaru owners nightmare
Karnicle, at least one thing that cant happen to my rx7 xDD
Dude the car in the example is a Subaru lmao
Sounds like a go kart lmfao
I bought my car with this exact sound haha. Can confirm
That’s a lawnmower
Why am I scared that my car could hear this video.. I feel like it’s taking notes 😩
😭😭😭😂 this is so funny
Bro hahahah
This comment reminded me people with schizophrenia have these same kinds of thoughts too, they just actually believe them.
Yup, it's a thrown rod.
Joseph Fry hi we are related I think
Rod knock but not thrown yet.
Yah she gonna leave you
1 could also be a bad starter. Solenoid will suck the gear in mesh with the flywheel but not be able to turn it over. I had that happen on my s15, a little copper disk in the solenoid had burned up. (The copper disk makes contact with the starter motor contacts once the gear has meshed with the flywheel)
All these give me anxiety and make me want to call my dad lol
Except for the brief intro, there's no BS commentary here, just straight to the point. Much appreciated.
“Thrown Rod” was most scary to me
What if all these sounds at once?
You can't have all of them at once. Your CV joints can't make noise unless the car is moving, which it won't be doing with a seized engine. Also, an engine which may or may not be flooded, and/or have thrown a rod can't make those sounds if it is seized. Additionally, the transmission can't make noise unless the engine is running.
Ur screwed.
Then you're royally screwed.
Kiss your car goodbye.
Place a stick of dynamite in the glove box and run really fast and pull the trigger
The thrown rod is the scariest one !😰
worst noise is your when your friend in the passenger seat somehow kicks the car into reverse while in drive. I hear it in my nightmares
My car serenades me to sleep with intro and outro music while driving. It's an absolute nightmare
The worst is silence when you turn the key only to figure out your ignition has been rigged to an improvised explosive device.
Smokes underneath = leaking tranny fluid (probably)
Smells like burnt oil or exaust = leaks a little oil onto the exaust pipe.
Screeching of tires when driving normally = bad alignment, tie rods or ball joints.
Clicking when you turn the key with a good battery or nothing at all = electical short or bad starter if the engine isnt locked up.
White or blue smoke coming out of the exaust even after engine is warm and its hot outside and the engine overheats for no apparent reason = blown head gasket. And I mean a BIG CLOUD OF SMOKE.
Dont know what caused it but when accelerating out of my driveway I heard what can only be described as the grinding sound one hears when trying to shift gears with the clutch pedal not fully pressed down in a really old truck. no clue what makes that sound in a 2003 automatic nissan did notice the mechanic i had put a new alternator on had tightened the accessories' belt to the point of no flex at all so it was probably the spindle of one of the accessories being pinned into its own bearings.
When that sound you’ve been looking for finally hits 😫🙏🏼
The fourth one sounds like it's saying "come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on"
I replayed it, and I heard "I won't I won't I won't I won't I won't I won't I won't I won't I won't I won't I won't"
These are actually the most beautiful sounds bruh 🔥🎉
Now don't think I'm one of the autobots lol 😂
Yea if you’re a mechanic
Old car tip I learned with experience: If it’s working, don’t fix it!
Hi I'm university student. For my final research can I take a data set of different faulty noises like this? If possible, it would be a great help.
The siezed engine one is caused by your electronic starter motor trying to crank the combustion engine. However since the combustion engine is not rotatable anymore all you get is that noise if the starter trying to spin it over and failing immediately.
The torn rod clack clack clack is caused by the connection rod that connects the piston and crankshaft having one of it's bearings fail. So instead of sliding along it's bearings it slides and bangs up and down with the piston.
The hydrolocked one may sound like your car just isn't starting. Which is because it isn't. Which is because instead of Air and Fuel you've got water in your combustion chamber.
A tip if you are lucky and your car just stalls after hydrolocking. Don't start it again immediately. Instead pull the spark plugs or glow plugs and them crank it for some time. The watwr will be expelled and you might just be able to drive again.
Trying to start it immediately may cause damage to the pistons, valves and piston rings, so don't.
Awesome comment thank you
A bad CV isn't the "worst" sound to hear. I replaced both of my front end CVs in an afternoon.
It's still something which you can't fix immediately and will probably ruin your plans for the day
@@azerty1933 lets be real....most problems from a car will ruin your plans for the day
@@capbuster1424even a simple dead battery might be enough to reschedule your plans for the day if you want to charge it instead of buying a new one.
@@pedinhu18 just get a jump and drive around for 30 minutes
Great video! It didn't have my car noise, but it was great anyway.
Hearing these are very eerie
Rod knock and a thrown rod are not the same thing, and sound drastically different. One sounds like a knocking, the other sounds like an explosion and the engine stops working.
Hearing Rod knock hurts 😂
Hey any help with the bad transmission noise, what might it be ?
thank you i really wanted to match the sound to issues. wish there were more.
Haha I can instantly tell the "thrown rod" is a Subaru
I think the worst one is the seized motor
Amazing video, simple and effective
i love that i can immediately tell you that the thrown rod example was a subaru EJ25
rods every 75k miles was a service interval for Subaru 😂
Nothing is worse than a huge THUMP followed my metal clinking and silence.
I had that. But the thump was preceded by a loud rattling. The thump accompanied by a puff of smoke from the bonnet.
Cv joints aren’t bad to replace, just remove the wheel and wheel bearing, put a pan under the trans where the cv goes in, pop it out, put the new one in, bolt everything back up, put the lost fluid back in. I’m sure there are some cars that over engineer them though.
the thrown rod sounded like my 1.9tdi after standing for some months, but the difference is that the sound got away by letting it warm up and run several times
This video helps me sleep! Thanks :)
This is useful as heck good thing someone had the idea to make this
The last noise referred to as a transmission problem only happens to me when I'm going up a hill... Yet there's no check engine light. Should I be worried?
Yes
Your car is a manual, not a automatic!
Hello there. I got a 2008 Toyota Camry that ran out of oil while I was driving and it stopped. It had a bad noise. Could it possible have damaged the engine?
Can’t forget the sounds a car makes, when it’s upside down in GTA San Andreas.
a lot of these can be other things too
Yeah, especially the seized engine. 99.9% of the time it's battery/starter related.
From my experience a seized engine sounds distinct from bad battery or starter. In both of the latter cases, all you will get is a light "click" as if nothing is even happening. Seized engine has a more noticeable grind to it. I am just a lsyman though, not a mechanic.
@@rhysf.505 The reason a seized engine hurt to listen to is because their is so much resistance, you can hear that it's stuck and unable to rotate, and the little starter is trying so hard to push it but there's no hope
@@arturos.l.2248 yea. It's like mahcine-gore.
Ah... My new ASMR.
yes
My cars collecting these like they're infinity stones. I've got a whole orchestra in there
This is the most informative video for a non mechanic or people with zero knowledge on the tech stuff🤣
"Thrown rod"? All my experiences with a thrown rod are a lot noisier, a lot shorter and then mostly silent. Sounds more like a big end bearing knock or a gudgeon pin issue???
yeah it's not thrown, just knocking which means the engine is on death's door. If the rod is thrown the engine is already 6 feet under.
Somebody should remake this but meme it and replace the sound with like a straight piped civic or something
Alternative title: "Top 5 most expensive sound your car can make"
What if your car makes the thrown rod sound without the clicking. Like that acceleration rubbing like noise is constant when going fast or even when cruising down a hill
well, i was driving on the highway, all of a sudden caught 3 first, then 2 when the smoke came, then 1 when i tried to turn it back on on the highway......THANK YOU RENAULT FOR destroying NISSANS REPUTATION.
RevolvoDoOr Sounds like you either didnt change the oil, or it all leaked out somehow.
sadly for me the valve cover needed to be replaced and I had no idea until I got a new engine. AGAIN THANK YOU RENAULT. whats worse now is that theres some loud whining noise inside the engine so.. smhwtfomfg
Why would u turn on a car with a fucking seized engine?
Sounds like I have a thrown rod. Does a smell of gas go with it?
cleverjester57 no
If its a quiet rattle, maybe its the fuel rail or a gasket on the camshaft in the case of my familys 04 Toyota Highlander.
cleverjester57 If you there a rod your have a huge hole in your engine block...
Great video idea!
When i accelerate i can hear some sort of sound almost like bottles clinging, ive taken it to honda and they said they didn’t find anything wrong. Any clue?
With a thrown rod does the noise go away when the car heats up? I have a car with barely 115k miles but you never know I guess. It's had It for about 30k miles though and I haven't had issues and It's only sometimes It happens. I have a whiny noise on the passenger side now though that most likely Is just a serpentine belt.
Jose Pina or the idler pulley or belt tensioner. Get some wd40. And spray the pulleys. Whatever one you spray stops squeaking then you go from there. Fix it cheap first. Parts yards
What kind of car is it? Could be piston slap
iggy151 Whay do yoh mean by what kind of car Is It? It's a 2003 Accord V6
yes sometimes you will only hear a thrown rod when oil temp and pressure is low, once it heats up it can make its way into the bearing
Jose Pina oooh i have that car too with the v6.
The ticking noise means that your valve clearance is getting loose and will need to be adjusted. Just look at the forums at .www.v6performance.net/forums/7th-generation-honda-accord-2003-2007/#/topics/106073
What about the money shif😂😂
Krzysztof Czermiński that would be the thrown rod sound after😂
Im not much of a mechanic, but that seized engine noise was BAAAAD!
every time my car makes a weird noise i come back to this video to comfort myself knowing that its not one of these 🙏
Bruh 💀💀💀💀💀💀
none of those sounds are anywhere near as torturous as the sound of worn down brake pads.
I'm having that problem right now with my 09 Malibu. The grinding sound they make when I slow or stop my car is driving me up the wall. I'm planning to get my brakes fixed soon.
Awful
0:42 sound, it's so obvious.
bye bye car
That thrown rod brings me dark memories of my 02 crown vic
Speaking from experience with lawn mowers, is the flooded engine one really bad enough that it belongs on this list?
Can't you just wait a while for the engine to drain and then try to start it again?
I thought the bad transmission sound was just the sound of my diesel engine running
AndreKiller1993 you would feel your car pull
zhbvenkhoReload pull how?
*FoRd*
daddyjankie Not the new ones, but the old ones did have alot of issues. New ones are pretty great for reliability aside from the powershift Fiesta and focus and early gen ebs.
I have a thrown rod (it hasn’t completely thrown but it has gotten worse since the problem came about) luckily my parents paid for me to get a new engine.
me listening to this biting my fingernails then breathing a sigh of relief when I havent heard any of those sounds before
i need more video like that as i am learning about car
🤦🏿....bad cv joints and thrown rod gave me PTSD......🤣😂
Mines like a bird chirping noise but I don't think it's my belts only makes the sound when I take off any suggestions?
I think the worst sound your car can make is a nuclear siren warning over the radio.
this video should be named "french cars sounds compilation"
Mine makes a noise when I accelerate as soon as I go over 4 on my tach it starts whining and if I keep going it does 2 more the third being a consistent whine
Mine sounds like bad transmission the car was jerking and rattling when I try to put my foot on the gas pedal it was rattling so I pulled it over it smell like it was burning in a car turned off by itself so I turned it off all the way and tried to let it cool down it was making a bubbling noise once the car was off so I tried to turn it back on and it turned on but then turn right back off someone came and gave it a jumpstart and I tried to drive off but my steering wheel was really tight and the lights were flickering and it turned off we don’t know what’s going on with it any ideas? The compressor has been messed up for about a year and I haven’t had any air been messed up a few times before as well and when I turn on my bright lights they flicker and make the car jurk
drove through atlantic city with a blown transmission and lets just say i havent got that many head turns and stares in my life😅
The way I once heard the CV Joint and Thrown Rod in a daily basis during my working hours coming from a 2015 Mitsubishi ASX that would pass by daily in that same street 💀💀💀
my car started screaming from the trunk when i hit a speed bump, is there something I should be worried about?
Okay but the noise you put for CV joint is from my transmission. A gasket busted and it leaked all the tranny fluid now it sounds exactly like that when I’m driving slow or even jsut rolling. It slips between 2-3 gear too. Anyone have ideas of if I could jsut replace the gaskets and flush it or if I should replace the whole tranny
Good video 👍👍👍
Should have included a real nice and crunchy money shift
my nissan transmission makes grinding noise when it tries to upshift its gears whenever slowing down, gotta love the ingenuity
My vehicle is making all of the mentioned noises! What can I do??
What do i have to change my CAR wont starts and its Sound like the flooded engine on the video it’s a Bmw 116d 2013
My engine makes a high pitch noise when taking off in first gear. Should i be worried
I am having that flooded engine sound 😂 that injector just keep spraying as I crank it over.
Thank you!
For the bad transmission one, mine sound just like that but only at 2k-redline . In neutral I only hear it at 2k rpm’s for half a second and then it stops . I also can’t seem to hear it under deceleration . Does anybody have any ideas
My car is a 2004 dodge neon srt4 with manual transmission