SuperJeffe

I had my 90,000 mile service on my GS400. I had my water pump and timing belt done and also had to get a bad starter replaced. Seeing the cost of all of that, I had the service done at the local Firestone dealer since it saved me around 600.

After the service, when I press on the gas, I am hearing what sounds like water sloshing around or almost small rocks in the engine. I can hear it pretty clearly at lower speeds and it's usually right when I press on the gas. It's hard to hear it much past 15 or 20 miles per hour. That's the best I can describe the sound. This is definitely a new noise. I heard it right away.

Anyone have any ideas? I worry about quality obviously and it's the first time I have had anything done to the car outside of the Lexus dealer. I just want to have some idea of what it might be when I go in....just in case they try to feed me a line of ....

Thanks
Jeff

mitsuguy

iTrader: (2)

sounds like maybe a bad waterpump or pulley???

without seeing it, its hard to say one way or the other...

Lexucan

I would check your coolant level......sounds like it might be low and needs topping up since the system was just drained (to do the service work) and then refilled. Read this.

damon

My guess, bearing leading to your fan clutch. More commonly known as the bracket support fan.

2JZ_SC

Turn your heater on and drive your car around the block in 2 or 3 gear. More then likely what you are hearing is air in the heater core. (We were having a lot of this in the 03-05 camry) After driving it check the coolant level.

SuperJeffe

I have only driven it about an hour since I got it back but it looks like it was the coolant. It was very low.

I will follow up if that did not fix the problem.

Thanks everyone for the quick replies. I was hoping it was a simple as the coolant.