Well I wish i had my camera at the time to show this ... but went to the beach yesterday and parked where i usually do. It rained yesterday though so where the car was sitting the sand wasn' that compacted and it went in a bit
(about an inch or so) so i was liek shouldn't be too much of a problem ... i got my buddy outside to push it while i feathers the reverse and try to rock it ... well a minute later I find myself all the way down to the frame rail both front and back. I went in to the store and asked for a shovel and some 2x4 or something, well they had the wood but no shovel so i had to use a kids shovel to dig in (yes very sad) digging for about 5 minutes we manage to fit the wood underneath the rear and shoveled a bit from the front too ... got a second guy to help us get out the car still ddin't go anywhere ... a few more guys came around to help us out ... so now we're six people trying to get a little car out. still didn't want to come out. We had to lift the whole rear end stick the woood right underneath the rear tires and li ft the whole front end and put more wood under the front and we're finally out. After driving around a bit ... i noticed a sound that i'm unsure of where its coming from. I can only hear it when i'm decelerating, it kinda shoulds like a ticking sound somewhere from the exhaust piping. But i looked underneath and couldn't see any damage. Today i drove around with one of my buddies and he's said your car seems to drive a little differently today what did you do ... so then i knew it wasn't just me and something is really wrong with the car. I don't feel any vibrations or anything ... but I just hear a sound.

 

Rear brakes drum or disc? If drum, pull them off, and dump the sand out.

 

LOL. That sounds like the voice of experience.

Check the exhaust too, you may have bent it a bit.

 

ya i wonder if you bent the heatshields and they're hitting the exhaust now? maybe rubbing on the driveshaft?

 

check your bearings. sand is hell on bearings. everything for that matter.

not saying thats your problem, just giving heads up.

 

Why didn't you 6 guys just lift the car up out the holes?lol

 

Moral of the story, don't f-ing park in the sand! Sand can so easily make it into wheel bearings that it ain't even funny. Chances are that the seals are worn out enough that its even easier for the sand to get in. Just check everything over. If the problem gets worse the more you drive, then I would be willing to bet you got sand in the wheel bearings.

 

Why did you drive a car on sand in the first place. Lol. cars get stuck on sand so easily.


And I agree with southern runner.

When we got our car Stuck, in sand. we dug out a hole, and we stuck the jack down there.

It was a front wheel drive lumina, and we were bored :P

 

It doesn't sounds like anything from the wheel bearings ... i have rear disk brakes, I spents 9$ at the car wash after that to clean up everything, especially around all the wheel areas. now i'm just thinking because it seems to be coming from the exhaust somehow, maybe its sand inside the muffler?

 

It might be in the engine.... or stuck inside a cat.?

 

Ummmmm, Yeah. Many moons ago. Back in the days of front drum brakes........

 

I extremely doubt that it would of gone up the engine in any way. No cats here ... straight piping single muffler SDJ headers. ...

 

we have a 90mile beach in nz and plenty of tractors noo shovels or wood needed

we came custom to sand drifting
and you have to be drive really fast to over come quick sand hahaha

 

When the starter doesn't engage next week, you can disassemble it, clean the sand out, lube the slide up and put it back together. Sand is nasty....

 

sand drifting. mmmmmmmm, So fun.

We drifted in a front wheel drive blwfly, We got sideways again and again.you can ask my brother tech greek, he got it on camera :P it was in the lumina, oh and we did backwards donuts :P

Back on topic-

well, It could be anything to your brakes to your sensors, if its a 13B

Oh, and a little pointer about un compacted sand.

Floor it. Floor it more when you see that packed sand : D

 

The air pipe to the exhaust may be bent and tapping the frame...