Don't Laugh - It's True

[Emily1]

My '98 Celica has been making weird sounds lately. Sounds like a trickle of water or liquid in the middle of the dash. Usually happens when I accelerate or start a turn from a stopped position. Passengers have heard it so it's not my imagination.

Other than this, my car is well-behaved and only has 23.5K miles on it since I bought it new in '98.

Sound familiar to anyone?

[Deejay]

Hi,

I would get it checked out at a dealership just to be certain. I sometimes get a trickling sound from my GT when I come to a halt, which I think is just water going into the expansion tank. Sounds very strange though, any problems with temperature guage? :)

[+Steve]

you have an air lock in your heating system.

need to pop to the dealers or a garage and have it bled.

[Brandon_638]

I have the same problem with my 2002 GT. It only happens whenever I'm starting out in first gear from a stop. Mine sounds like this loud liquid noise, I describe it as if a turkey baster is sucking up liquid and squirting it out. It's definitely a liquid noise and I can hear it from behind the dash on the passenger side of the car. It doesn't happed everytime but MOST of the time and only in first gear, no others. Is the problem an air lock in the heater? Mine has been doing this for a while now, and actually I just had my coolant flushed and refilled, and had my blower motor replaced (for another reason than this) and I thought maybe having had those 2 things done it might fix the noise...but it still happens. Does anyone else have this problem and have any input?

[dymchurchpaseo]

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[Cubic Incubi]

sounds like an air con problem to me.. does it have air con?

[dymchurchpaseo]

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[sotal]

No air con. Theres a sunroof- you would've thought they'd put air con in!  <_<

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Actually it's a moonroof according to the hand book! :D

[GT4 BOOSTER]

your heater matrix is in the dash board ( the small radiator that warms you up ) , so its possible it is air in the system ;) but i would of thought it would stay in the expansion tank and not re - enter the system.

[daktari]

your heater matrix is in the dash board ( the small radiator that warms you up ) , so its possible it is air in the system  ;)  but i would of thought it would stay in the expansion tank and not re - enter the system.

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Had exactly the same symptoms on my M5. Never went away no matter how many times i bled the system. Heater still worked and she never over heated so i Just put it down to added character and ignored it in the end.