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Weird Sound, Trying To Sell 2007 Prius

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting' started by DIYohWhy, Aug 26, 2024.

  1. DIYohWhy

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    I have had people come take it for a test drive but 3/3 have questioned the sound the car is making. I'm not familiar enough with the sounds of Prius's to know if it is unusual. It is coming from the front end of the car. It sounds like it's working harder or something? I want to attach audio but cannot find an audio file type that this site accepts. What should I do?
     
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    it won't accept a phone video upload?
     
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    Yeah can't wait to hear this one More than likely people are just BS and you because they want you to drop the car a thousand bucks or they want it for free or whatever antics are going on but this is how the car nonsense rolls even in private sales everybody wants to come around and kick the tires and tell you this isn't worth that because of such and such and so and so and the market won't bring this and I know what I'm doing because I do this everyday yeah all that so you know that's why I don't sell much of anything I ever have so I don't even deal with this kind of nonsense. What I do know is I'm a pretty well informed individual and every time I call up about buying something from somebody whether it's craigslist Facebook marketplace when I come a calling and asking the right questions I get blocked and called an idiot in the moron because their butt hurt because I know more about the product they're trying to pimp off on me and tell them exactly what's wrong with it and such and so forth not necessarily in the car business in a lot of things and then boom I have all these thousands of instances where this has happened for quite normal questions oh it's hysterical so generally when I come a calling it's not available That's exactly what the text says because they know I'm asking the right questions and don't make mistakes and when I get there stuff isn't right I pointed out immediately and tell them oh well you know usually I don't have to make the trip because I can spot it in the pictures I tell them what I need to see etc then I point out the problem and they're like screw you you don't know squat You're just an idiot that ain't giving you no money
     
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    The noise may come from the inverter pump, which always runs when the car is on, even when the gasoline engine is not running. This is normal.
    The noise may come from the brake booster to pump up the pressure in the brake system. Frequent and quacking sounds may indicate problems with the booster, which will require expenses for its replacement.
     
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    I was hoping to do just audio but guess I gotta do a video. Thanks, will get one today
     
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    No, I just replaced that not too long ago. It's more like when accelerating it sounds like the engine is revving too high if I had to say, although I'm no expert. Will share video, gotta make it smaller file size first.
     
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    Not sure what file types this website accepts, it won't take an MP4. Anyone know?
     
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    Maybe this will work
     
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    Only if you change its permissions to make it publicly available it might work. It might be better to upload it to YouTube or Vemeo and link it back to PriusChat.
     
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    Is the exhaust system leaking?
     
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    Is the exhaust system all there?
     
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    How would I check if it's there or leaking?
     
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    Look under the car.
    By the way, is the catalytic converter in place?
     
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    I will check tomorrow and let you guys know
     
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    If you can’t find anything, a good muffler shop might help
     
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    Looks fine to me. Right? Noise seems to come from the engine bay area. Just louder than normal. Maybe I should check oil although I filled it not too long ago? Idk. Someone during a test drive said they think it may be 'downshifting'?
     

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