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Old Sep 10, 2005 | 03:34 PM
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Interior Wind Buffeting above 70mph

Yes, I know I can roll the window up, but I was wondering if other people experience it and if there are any solutions. With just the drivers side window down it's downright annoying above 70.
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Old Sep 10, 2005 | 03:50 PM
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uh...crack the passenger window a bit? This happens in every car I've ever owned.
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Old Sep 10, 2005 | 04:13 PM
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Originally Posted by rynberg
uh...crack the passenger window a bit? This happens in every car I've ever owned.
That much I know. I've probably owned 15 cars in my lifetime and I've never had a car that had wind buffeting as bad as this one. It's even more anoying at the moment because my power window switch is dead and the new one won't be here until Monday.
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Old Sep 10, 2005 | 05:14 PM
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Must be your relative position in the car then, as this car has less buffeting than any sedan I've ever ridden in, but more buffeting than my 79 RX-7 did.
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Old Sep 10, 2005 | 05:24 PM
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It's probably those damn Air Brakes they call mirrors...
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Old Sep 10, 2005 | 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by mibad
Yes, I know I can roll the window up, but I was wondering if other people experience it and if there are any solutions. With just the drivers side window down it's downright annoying above 70.

I leave both windows up 4" to 5". You can't lean way back "ghetto style" and still get your arm out the window... but the buffeting/noise seems to subside quite a bit.
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Old Sep 11, 2005 | 07:15 AM
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lol.....yeah, the buffeting can get to the point you think you are in a helicopter's rotor-wash! It literally is a physical assault to your ears.
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Old Sep 11, 2005 | 08:31 AM
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That's what it reminds me of! A friggin helicopter. Here is some thing else that's been sticking in my head. A lady at work said rotarys sound like sewing machines. Now when I'm driving at low rpm and things are Hmmmming along, I think of that. I hate that bitch!
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Old Sep 11, 2005 | 09:38 PM
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If your car has a sunroof you can crack open the sunroof so that the back tilts up. That seems to take care of it for me. Otherwise the buffeting just continues until around 85 mph or so and then it seems to slowly go away (or maybe I start to go deaf at that point ).

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