Toyota Avensis “flapping” noise

Gee_G

As the title says, we bought a 12 Toyota Avensis a few weeks back and it’s making a “flapping” sort of noise mostly when driving too slowly for the gear you’re in. I seen it described somewhere as a noise like a piece of paper put in front of a fan. The garage we bought from says it’s just “a noise in the car” but it’s loud and can heard outside the car too.
Any ideas??
Thanks

Esel

Driving too slowly for the gear you’re in is called lugging the engine and is a very Bad Thing to do. It can damage the bearings in the engine.

Toyotafanboi

Gee_G wrote: »

Any ideas??
Thanks

Don't drive too slow for the gear that your in?

Any car but particularly a diesel will sound terrible when you are labouring it in too high a gear.

CJhaughey

Keep lugging it and you will eventually find out what the noise relates to.

Del2005

My car makes strange noises when I put it under unnecessary strain. Simple solution is not to put it under strain.

colm_mcm

There's an element of truth in that ^ but there could also be a fault. I'd bring it to a mechanic/main dealer and get them to drive it.

Gee_G

Thanks for all the replies telling me not to drive in the wrong gear!! 😂

Im well aware that that causes unecessary strain on a car, I am not driving in too high of a gear but sometimes it happens (but then I drop down a gear!!) But thats the only time I can hear the noise that loud.

Just thought Id ask on the off chance that somebody might've had the same noise from their car and maybe given me an idea of what to say to the garage/mechanic because so far they can't see anything wrong but they can hear it. Thanks anyway!

colm_mcm

If they can hear it and it isn’t normal then there’s a fault. I wouldn’t let it go.