Lol that's amazing!

Hmmmm. Ok, thanks for the advice and input. I guess I will wait and see what the Mechanic has to say. Fingers crossed its cheap and easy to fix.

It's a high pitched whining and rather continuous, but worse after initially turning on the engine or if I am idling at a stop. Nothing has really changed with the car, except for this terrible shrieking noise.

@Aricus, was your issue with the cambelt high pitched? How much did it cost to replace? I'm looking through online products and found some cambelt kits for less than £50 (like this for VW). Is that about the right price, providing that nothing else is wrong? 

 

I very much hope this won't be the case. I'm kind of thinking belt as well, but am hoping and praying it is only a belt and nothing else bigger and more expensive going on.

It's a 2005 VW Jetta (A5, Type 1K). Nothing sexy, but it gets me to where I need to go.

HAHAHAHAA brilliant! Absolutely the best response and actually made me laugh out loud and shock some people in my office. Thanks for lightening my day chap!

First, sorry for the non Le Mans related topic, but you guys are all car geniuses and I most certainly am not. So figured I would ask. Started hearing a whining noise yesterday coming from my engine. It caught me by surprise, but then it went away. Again this morning heading into work, there is was. I will have to bring it into the garage after work, but I would like to have an idea of what it is before I walk in their clueless and they try to sell me 2 grand of things I don't need.

Any thoughts? Please be cheap thoughts!

I thought only us Canadians said "eh"

What a nightmare. But all is well that ends well.

TBH it's still better than the crap contraption called a car that I drive. 

I plan to gain some experience ;-)

Kidding, I used to follow all of the big races when I was younger. I actually raced karts in clubs up until 16, so pretty much lived for anything with speed. My father took me to the the Daytona 500 when I was 11. Haven't made it to France yet for the Le Mans, but it's on the bucket list. 

Didn't see an official introduction thread, so I'm saying hi here. Excited to be here.