Jb Weld

had a whistling noise in the new/used jeep renegade I bought a few months ago
you could really hear it when you were taking off . took it to dealer shortly after I bought it . they said nothing wrong with it . normal they said
long story short I had a young kid look at it . he's one of those tuner guys . you know the import crowd with the hopped up cars . he told me . just by riding in it . sounded like a turbo leak . now this car is a 2015 with 15K miles on it . so he said to start by removing air inlet hose off of turbo . and spin turbo by hand .
just to eliminate any issue with turbo . just my luck you had to remove the air filter upper housing to remove hose . well you also had to remove the engine cover too . no big deal . I wanted to see under it anyway
IT turned out . when the dealer serviced this car before it was put on lot , when the mechanic changed out the air filter he broke a hose nipple . that hose that was open now . went all the way back to the big hose from intercooler to intake , so this is where the whistling was coming from .
checked online line for a new top . 170 dollars for the complete housing

so off to auto parts store for some JB Weld . 24 hours later . as we say watching paint dry . it's fixed
picture of engine with cover off

air filter repair

I am clueless about these new cars . no more noise

 

X2 on transverse engine. My first view too..!

 

My guess would have been turbo too. I've had that happen where an intercooler hose gets a tear and makes noise. The whistling should have went away when coasting down a hill when no boost was being made.

 

Love jb weld. Used it even on fuel tanks, it works

 

A rock punched a hole in my dirt bike's clutch cover around 8 years ago. I limped it back to the car, and I threw some JB Weld on it when I got home. Haven't touched it since.

 

20 plus years on the case on the 350 warrior where the chain took it out.