Grinding noise

[gregwhitworth]

I have an issue where it seems around the third race I start hearing a constant grinding sound, like metal on metal. I replaced my most used units (ERS & MGU respectively) with no positive results as the sound is still there. It doesn't seem to actually effect my performance but goodness does it sound bad.

[Maya-Neko]

Does this only happen at higher speed? If yes, then it might be your floor scratching on the track too much (which kind of sounds like metal on metal and can get pretty loud to inform you, that you'll have less ground effect as you could). You could try to use higher ride heights or less downforce to get rid of it.

[Kuba2023]

Actually, I am sometimes getting the same grinding noise. I believe it is caused by some much used engine parts. Like Gregwhitworth I noticed that the noise does not always disappear once fresher parts installed.

However, when using new parts there is no such noise and this type of noise is clearly different from scratching on the track and to my knowledge does not noticably influence the performance. Kind of strange, but I share these sentiments.

[Shia Luck]

Worn gearbox or Turbo is your most likely cause. I guess turbo from how you describe it.

Have fun :)

[Josh]

Originally posted by Maya:

Does this only happen at higher speed? If yes, then it might be your floor scratching on the track too much (which kind of sounds like metal on metal and can get pretty loud to inform you, that you'll have less ground effect as you could). You could try to use higher ride heights or less downforce to get rid of it.

This is what I also thought at first Maya, but after raising ride height by 1 its still there and doesn't affect my times so it has to be something else....my suspicion is its prolly when pushing too hard you're over stressing your engine. I'm speaking of F1 2016, haven't played alot of 2018 yet.