[cameron66]

I dont know if anyone has experienced resonation noises coming from the engine at various RPM, mine was around the 3k rpm mark, and would result in quite loud roar resonation noise being heard inside the car, usually when pulling away, or accellerating in any of the first 3 gears etc.

In my case a lot of it was due to the air box, and the metal pipe running along the left side of the engine compartment near the top.

A bit of foam around the pipe cured the one noise, and the loudest noise seems to have been resolved by placing 2 small blocks of foam under the airbox. One placed under the airbox where it sits over the wheel arch, and the other just positioned on top of the engine mount bracket under the righthand side of the airbox.

A bit of a Heath Robinson fix, but it seems to have cured it. The dealer had it for a few hours some weeks ago to fix this, which in fairness they did, but the bits of packing material they used only seemed to last a few days...LOL

Looks like VX should have added a extra rubber mounted support for the airbox, it only has 2, and it tends to move about (resonate) quite abit.

Nothing worse than having noises spoil your driving experience with the car.

I'm just left now with the odd slight creak noise from the console, noticable mainly when going round bends, due obviously to the weight of the console trying to move sideways..LOL.
Looks like buying another big roll of foam. :D

I hate these hard to find sqeeaks, and creaks in a car, I like mine to be totally silent, except for the slight purr of the engine of course, and have you ever noticed that you only seem to hear them after you have had the car a little while.

It took me ages to cure them all on my old Vec-c. :D

[sofuse]

I'm old enough to remember the days of British Leyland and owned a few of their cars: two Minis, a Morris Marina and an Austin Montego.

It was a standing joke that the people who bought their cars did most of the development work. Cars were often introduced to the market that were really under-developed and should have had a lot more track testing and development work done on them.

British Leyland weren't alone in this, mind you. The first Ford Escort (I'm pretty sure it was the Mk 1) had such a serious problem with its front suspension that it was pulled after the world's motoring writers had tested it and found it seriously wanting in that department. It was reintroduced some time later with a revised suspension design.

What I'm trying to say, in a long-winded way, is that Vauxhall are in danger of being looked at as a car manufacturer who have done exactly the same. If all the development work had been done properly, you shoudn't really have to stuff bits of foam round the engine.

It won't do us any good, the people who have bought one or are in the process of buying one, but perhaps the next revamped model, in about two or three years time will have all these weaknesses sorted.

My rant is over.