Okay I've heard about the passanger door. (don't have it)
I've heard about the rear speaker deck. (have it)

But I haven't heard this one from any of you it is almost like a buzzing it is short less than a second I only notice it shortly after the car has been started for the first time in a few hours. It seems to be coming from directly in front of the driver's seat. I have a feeling that it has something to do with the power steering system. I'll pay more attention and see if it is only when I'm turning the wheel.

 

i have it too...it's more of like a pause buzzing then a ring buzzing it hums sort of


another question for you...do you have a sound at your doors that kind of sounds like the door is open? you hear alot of road noise...i didn't notice it till i got in the passenger seat so my friend could drive on our road trip...she said she's always heard it....it bugged the shit out of me. I think i'm going to go to the dealer and have them check it out

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pays to be young and crazy

-99 acura 3.0 CL
-58 Caddy Eldorado Biarritz
-55 chevy suburban (chopped dropped tubbed)

 

Hell yeah. I hear it all the time when im just sitting in my car. and that onetime we got pulled over in the parking lot we all heard it and was looken all around my car. i think it'z coming from the headunit or something around there.

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CL-S
White/Ebony/Navi/Spoiler/Visor/Full Bra/Mud Guards/Cargo Net/Acura Car Cover/Tint 20%,35%,5% on Sun Roof, Rockford 250a2 Amp w/JL10w6 / K&N Drop in Filter. Comptech Springs. Polarg m-6.
Comptech Headers soon now that I have a JOB again. hehe

gtech 0-60 6.03 w/ 438 pound load.

 

You'd think since I have a type S 2001 they'd have fixed this problem as for the road noise I can't say that i've heard it. Howerver when it is raining it sounds like my rear windows are open (except they can't open) I guess the rear wheels kick water up against the rear wheel wells and they aren't too well insalted so it sounds like a lot of roar noise.

 

by the way mine isn't the abs sound itz a little beep sound.

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CL-S
White/Ebony/Navi/Spoiler/Visor/Full Bra/Mud Guards/Cargo Net/Acura Car Cover/Tint 20%,35%,5% on Sun Roof, Rockford 250a2 Amp w/JL10w6 / K&N Drop in Filter. Comptech Springs. Polarg m-6.
Comptech Headers soon now that I have a JOB again. hehe

gtech 0-60 6.03 w/ 438 pound load.

 

thats the abs? it doesn't come on till after i start driving?

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pays to be young and crazy

-99 acura 3.0 CL
-58 Caddy Eldorado Biarritz
-55 chevy suburban (chopped dropped tubbed)

 

The abs has a light and a beep when you start up but this isn't that. this is more like a vibration

 

thats what mine is...it sounds like it's comming from behind the steering wheel or above the speedo....i think it might have to do with the inside climate control


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pays to be young and crazy

-99 acura 3.0 CL
-58 Caddy Eldorado Biarritz
-55 chevy suburban (chopped dropped tubbed)

 

My rearview mirror (the one inside the car)buzzes ALOT--don't know if that's your problem though. If anyone has a fix for this, please share.

 

I've seen this one on other boards. Been told by many that it's the ABS. I though it might be the VSA, but I turned that off and started the car, still made the noise.

I think it is the ABS pressurizing.


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2001 Acura 3.2CL Type-S
Satin Silver/Ebony
No Navi

Wheel locks/35% tint/Splash guards/PIAA 19169 bulbs/K&N 33-2178 air filter/Mobil 1 5W-30 oil & filter

 

I have the same noise. I only hear it when I back out of the garage. Its is the ABS pressurizing (sp?).


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2001 CL Type S.
No spoiler. No NAV either.

 

Okay, it IS the ABS. Not pressurizing though. It's a self test every ABS system makes on every car. Some are noticable, some not. On ours, it sounds like the short buzzing noise. Nothing to worry about unless it does that and your ABS light stays on, that'll mean the test failed.

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Andrew S.
2000 Dark Forest Green GTP/GTX
14.413@95.03
My Mod Page

2001 San Marino Red Acura 3.2 CL Type S
* No Mods Yet, though planned *

 

I noticed the same noise, the first day I drove the car. I am sure that the sound is coming from the engine compartment.

As if it some mechanical device is being calibrated or reseeted. It could the abs pump, steering wheel, vsa... for sure it sound like "bzzz, zittt" and that is it.

It come each time I start the car and start driving/steering.....

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Bare Bone Stock Type-S. Plenty of accessories. PIAA 19169 to be installed soon.

 

Mine waits till I turn around to get out my long drive way. Always does it once car is moving forward at about 2-5 mph.

Until people started talking about this, I thought I was going to have to ask the Acura Care people. But, the one thing I can always count on is the bzzz,rmpt,bzzz noise on start-up. (I leave with windows partially open during start-up, otherwise I don't notice it with so much noise in Lost Angeles)


[This message has been edited by EricL (edited 01-17-2001).]

 

The buzzing sound you hear IS the ABS pressurizing/testing itself.

It will happen twice. The first time is when you exceed 3 or 4 mph (in either reverse or forward). The second time is at 12mph. That's it. You don't see any ABS lights or anything else when the system prepares itself.

Hope this helps.

Rob M.
Long Island, NY

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2001 Acura CL Type S. Satin silver, non-nav, #848
1997 Ford Probe (POST)

 

I know of two noises that happen everytime I start up the car. The first one that I think most of you are talking about is the ABS doing whatever it does... sounds kinda like a short buzz of an electronic pump or something. Then the other one that hopefully all of us know about by now is the passenger side view mirror that automaticly tilts down when you put the car into reverse, then back up when you put it in drive. This sound is pretty similar to the ABS in my opinion except it comes from the right instead of infront.

 

It is from the ABS...I was curious about it one day when I had my car in at the dealer for a service and asked one of the salesman and he said it was the ABS. Sometimes you here it once and sometimes you might here it twice.


2001 CLS Satin Silve/Ebnoy Bone Stock

 

i hear it too im usually out of my drive way it to me sound like a door opening a buzzing door but i heard it in my prelude all the time before so when i heard it on this car i figured must be normal

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'01 3.2 CL typeR
Sundance Platinum
Llumar platinum plus
tint 20% all around
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'98 ACCORD V-6 sedan
16" coupe wheels
215/55/16 nitto's
20% smoke titanium

 

yah i have that kind of noise at the passenger side ..but not sure where it is from..it annoy me for a long time..what should i do??

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2001 Acura Red CL Type S.
1997 Honda Civic EX.
!!!! VTEC Power !!!!
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I think you are hearing the pannel that pulls out from your visor. I got it confused also at first with the mirror but then I wedged something between it and the visor and it went away.



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2001 Acura 3.2 CL Type-S
San Marino Red/Ebony/Navi/Spoiler/Nose Mask/Mud Guards/Wheel locks/
Comptech Springs & Filter/PIAA 1969/20% Tint/Acura lettering removed/
12in Sub with AMP/Dynomated Trunk/Sub control under dash/
Clifford G4 Solaris Alarm

 

that "abs pressurising/test sound" you hear when you first start driving also occurs if you activate the abs while driving. I hit a wet spot in the parking garage (very slippery concrete) the other day and activated the abs briefly. as soon as I released the brake, I heard the "pump" noise briefly. I guess the system also performs a self-test following activation.

I've also noticed a higher-pitched buzz upon starting the car in the morning, and I finally traced it to the cd rattling in the head unit on cold morning. I've noticed the same sound when the changer is changing discs in cold weather, too. sometimes the changer shuts down completely and rolls over to fm radio when this happens. hitting cd again will usually correct the problem, though.

 

NO SHIT dumb ass . if you knew how to do a search you would of known it was the ABS pressurizing. fool



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CL-S
White/Ebony/Navi/Spoiler/Visor/Full Bra/Mud Guards/Cargo Net/Acura Car Cover/Tint 20%,35%,5% on Sun Roof, Rockford 250a2 Amp w/JL10w6 / K&N Drop in Filter. Comptech Springs. Polarg m-6.
Comptech Headers soon now that I have a JOB again. hehe

gtech 0-60 6.03 w/ 438 pound load.

 

What be's up with dat? Is you creeping on me? Thats not phat. Actually I believe it is anti-phat. I'm not down with anti-phat.

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2001 CL Type S.
No spoiler. No NAV either. No fat chics.
no "phat" chics either.

 

I thought mine was rattling too, but it turned out to be a pair of sunglasses in their compartment. It took me about a week to figure that one out.