When you shake your car...

do you hear fluids sloshing around? Like gas...

I know it's a strange/stupid question

 

umm my car doesnt shake... But u can hear gas in most cars when you shake them

 

For some reason I feel like I've never heard it before until tonight. I don't understand why u wouldn't hear it, but it just sounded loud and unusual. Cripse, I gotta' fix this thing, I'm starting to go crazy.

 

yeah, my car is too stiff to really shake it. Might you be thinking of the window washer fluid reservoir? or how much gas do you have in the tank?

 

Well arent you special dave... yes it very well could be gas or your washer fluid

 

not side to side. Sit in the seat and rock it front to back. I have about 3/4 tank. Its definitely gas, and ridiculously present. It just seems strange to me since I have never heard that before.

 

special enough to wear a helmet:run:

 

Check you're coolant resevoir also.

 

Lol that made me ROFL thanks dave. you should go to firestone tomorrow and stop being a hobbit

 

do our gas tanks have baffles? I seriously don't know. maybe something happened:dunno:

 

Yes, planning on it. have a few peeps to see about some parts. (I mean, I going down there just for you. )

 

its gas...lots of it. Sloshing around. I don't hear the windshield stuff or coolant. Gas. I did the same thing to my girls wrx and it didnt make any noise.

 

Dave u are a damn hobbit u just go down to pawn off your **** then u run... stay awhile

 

I doubt it.


I've heard fuel sloshing around before. NBD. Subies have kind of a weird setup with the halfway split tank. The side with the pump is kept even by a "jet pump" as subaru calls it, which uses the siphoning effect of the return to draw fuel to the other side.

 

Dan how do you know so much?

 

I'm a geek, what can I say? I've spent countless hours staring at FSM's to understand exactly what is going on.

 

is there pressure in the tank though? Would that keep it from being so sloshy?

 

Even if there was pressure in the tank, it would still slosh. Liquids are not compressible, which really doesn't matter I guess. You have a ton of air pressure on you right now but you're not stuck to the floor...

 

Im just losing my mind. Nbd.

 

this is best attempted late at night, possibly the wee hours of the morning, in the far corner of a park parking lot. You'll need the help of a signifcant other... or maybe a new friend you just met! Everyone give this a try and post up their results ASAP, we've got to help this fella out!

 

When you have as many squeaks, rattles, bangs, clunks and sloshes as I do, you just get kinda numb to it. Maybe not numb, but you know what everything is and just ignore it.

 

HAHAHAHAHAH!:laugh:
why is would this matter at all?! hahaha i know the noise you are talking about. it used to happen if i stopped quickley with a less than full fuel tank, and turned off the car asap. i could hear the fuel "slosh" back and forth. but i think its funny because idk why you would be sitting in the back seat rocking it back and forth..........:roll: haha

is it distracting you from other things you might be doing in the back seat?

seriously! best thread ev3R!

 

time for you sir to turn your stereo up and just drive that thing!!!

 

This has to be one of the weirdest thread's yet.....

 

I wasn't in the back seat. I'm just hearing things now and everything is suspect since the car isn't running right. I need to get my fuel problem fixed before I take a bat to this car.

 

It's rated right up there with the one from the other day "My car is smoking, but not from then engine" thread.

 

Believe me, I had my flame suit tailored for this question. I know its dumb. I was just wondering if anyone else heard the same thing since my gf's wrx didn't do it.