Hi all, new to the forum though I have been a long time reader of the threads up here. Basically I have a bit of a problem and I wanted to ask some fellow Micra owners for advice first before getting my pants pulled down at a garage.
Basically, a few weeks ago I started to notice a very very faint sort of whistling/ringing noise coming from the gear box, very quiet but it would change it pitch if you touched the stick at all. Well it's gotten a lot worse since. I did my first real big trip in her 2 weeks back covering 350+ miles in a day and since then its become a lot worse, to the point now were I'm driving my partner's car instead for fear of causing anymore damage.
The noise now is very audible and while the ringing/whistling sort of metallic noise is still there albeit a lot louder, there's a sort of, not grinding, but rubbing sort of noise if that makes sense? The car seems to lack in power somewhat too? I live in a very hilly area which never used to present any problems but she really is struggling now.
Until I stopped driving it I was doing as much driving in 5th as possible, as that made the least noise, besides being more economical. But the whole things a mess and its really worrying me now.
I'm not sure if its the same problem or something caused by it but the engine seems to be a lot louder now, sounding in 5th at 30mph like it used to in 3rd gunning it up a hill at 40ish?
Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be? From what I've read and my own knowledge I'm thinking it may be the clutch bearing? What do you guys think and what cost/remedy am I looking at?
Oh, its a 1L K11, V-reg... approx 43K on the clock so low miles really?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm gonna have to get it sorted this week so would be good to know what the problem is and what I'm talking about in advance...
Cheers!
Basically, a few weeks ago I started to notice a very very faint sort of whistling/ringing noise coming from the gear box, very quiet but it would change it pitch if you touched the stick at all. Well it's gotten a lot worse since. I did my first real big trip in her 2 weeks back covering 350+ miles in a day and since then its become a lot worse, to the point now were I'm driving my partner's car instead for fear of causing anymore damage.
The noise now is very audible and while the ringing/whistling sort of metallic noise is still there albeit a lot louder, there's a sort of, not grinding, but rubbing sort of noise if that makes sense? The car seems to lack in power somewhat too? I live in a very hilly area which never used to present any problems but she really is struggling now.
Until I stopped driving it I was doing as much driving in 5th as possible, as that made the least noise, besides being more economical. But the whole things a mess and its really worrying me now.
I'm not sure if its the same problem or something caused by it but the engine seems to be a lot louder now, sounding in 5th at 30mph like it used to in 3rd gunning it up a hill at 40ish?
Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be? From what I've read and my own knowledge I'm thinking it may be the clutch bearing? What do you guys think and what cost/remedy am I looking at?
Oh, its a 1L K11, V-reg... approx 43K on the clock so low miles really?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm gonna have to get it sorted this week so would be good to know what the problem is and what I'm talking about in advance...
Cheers!