Re: fuel pump noise?

["Fred Munro" <munrof@isys.ca>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Aleksander Mierzwa <alex@matrix.pl>
To: Phil Payne <quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk>
Cc: quattro@coimbra.ans.net <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: Thursday, March 18, 1999 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: fuel pump noise?


>At 01:28 99-03-18 GMT, Phil Payne wrote:
>
>>Any noise is to be avoided, but people _have_ driven 10s of thousands
>>of miles with noisy pumps.  Wavering in the sound seems a bad sign -
>>once they start to make several different notes they're on the way
>>out.
>
>The problem is - my brand new Bosch pump is making exactly this sound. It's
>much better when the outside temperature is above 5 degrees Celsius,
>though. I have yet to replace the fuel filter - it has less than 20k miles
>on it, but you never know...
>
    My new Bosch pump was noisy as well, Aleksander - it still is noisy 20k
later but has muted to a throaty rumble rather than it's initial nasal
whine. I have seen several posts over the past few months commenting on the
noisy new pumps - it wouldn't have anything to do with the fact they are now
made in the Czech Republic, would it?

Fred Munro
'91 200q  270k km