Help with whining sound
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Help with whining sound
Cars making a whining sound around the climate controls. Nothing changes by turning air off/on or defrosters, same sound still happening.
Here’s a video of the sound it is making. I noticed this last winter also....seems once cold weather comes it happens again
Here’s a video of the sound it is making. I noticed this last winter also....seems once cold weather comes it happens again
Last edited by GsLex02; 01-03-21 at 07:02 AM.
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Can you help give some details about your vehicle year and model?
Maybe it's the servo motors on some GS models. There's a TSB floating around on this.
Maybe it's the servo motors on some GS models. There's a TSB floating around on this.
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If it is a sound like a CD/DVD trying to eject or a ticking noise, my guess it's a defective fan in the head unit. If you can share the video, it may help us give better advice on what it could be.
Here are some topics you should read over if my suspicion is correct that it is a defective fan:
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/gs-...se-rattle.html
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/gs-...oise-help.html
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/gs-...l-whining.html
If it is indeed a sound like I described above, I would call Lexus Corporate at 1-800-255-3987 or e-mail them a support ticket (https://www.lexus.com/contact). Make sure to reference Lexus Corporate Case# 1901112018. They are well aware of this problem and I would like more other folks to include their experience so that perhaps Lexus will issue a formal TSB on this.
I recently went through the trouble of replacing the defective fan (I actually replaced 2 of them) within the head unit, similar to how @peasodos, did in those topics. I'm still ironing out an issue, but I might post a topic to help address this soon for anyone that wants to DIY it rather than pay Lexus $2K+ for replace the entire head unit.
Hope this helps,
~ Im2bz2p345
Last edited by Im2bz2p345; 01-07-21 at 05:03 PM.
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I pressed the CD eject button while the whining was happening and CD eject made a completely different sound. I guess I’ll have to remove the unit once I have time
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I experience this very same problem during winter as well, and while it is annoying during car startup, once the car gets running it goes away. Really needs to be very cold out for this to occur though.
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Lead Lap
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yes exactly. After running for about 15 minutes it stops. Happened last year also only during the coldest days. Did you ever figure out what it was?
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Fix is to open up the head unit to determine the cause, but it's likely the one of the 3 small fans in there. Check out the topics that I linked in my post above (post #5).
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