About a month ago, my car developed an annoying metallic buzzing noise around 4,000~5,000 RPM when I go full throttle in 2nd or 3rd gear (sometimes in 4th too). For the past several weeks, I tried to locate where this annoying noise is coming from. I tried pushing various parts of the trims and put soft felt at various locations with no success. Then a few days ago, I found out that pushing the e-brake button makes the noise go away instantly! BTW, my e-brake engages very high up. At the lock position, it is almost 45 degrees to the horizon. Is there a way to disassemble the e-brake handle to inspect if the spring is loose or not? This problem has given me so much grief for the past few weeks, I am glad that I narrowed the problem down to the e-brake handle, but I have no clue how to fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Dunno of this will help, but the ebrake is tightened in the 996 by removing the arm-rest tightening it, think the 987 would be the same!
Do you have wide wheels & tires on the rear. If so, in extreme cases they have been known to rub against the e-brake cables back there (if so, this can be fixed by Ty-rapping them to the control arm). I suppose this could in theory vibrate your handle a bit more. Just one of many possible guesses. Good luck.
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