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What's the butterfly sound I hear sometimes when the car is cold traveing less than 20 mph?

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Old 09-20-2006, 12:05 PM
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What's the butterfly sound I hear sometimes when the car is cold traveing less than 20 mph?
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or sounds more like a really quick bird cheep?
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vtec must be kickin in on 1-2 shift.
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More info needed.
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It's a fluttering sound. Only at low rpm's when I'm first taking off in the morning.
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Default Area that it's coming from? My first guess is that it is your bypass valves.

My car does the same thing.
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Does it mean I need new ones?
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Default depends; do you have any boost leaks? have you vagged the car?

have you done any maintenance at all?
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I found a torn TBB a month ago, and changed my BPV's a year ago. Otherwise nothing done.
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Default You'll probably need someone to check in person.

Like quickaudi said, check your codes. (vag your car)

If you like to do preventative maintenance, you may as well replace your stock bypass valves with 710N bypass valves.

I don't know how to test them aside from the audi tech's special tool to do so. They sound fairly distinctive when they are fried though, and they would make noise more often than when you describe.


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