Hi, I have a 2001 1.8T Quattro with a manual transmission. Whenever I start the car after it has been sitting for a few hours, there is a weird whining noise that lasts for around 15-30 seconds. The noise sounds a bit like a belt would if it was going out but the noise seems to be coming from around where the transmission is (underneath around where the driver sits) instead of anywhere under the hood. In fact, it is hard to actually hear the noise at all when I lifted the hood to see if it was a belt or the alternator or something like that.

Other than the noise, I haven't noticed anything wrong with the car though. It still shifts fine and doesn't slip any. I think that the linkage might be loose inside the transmission since it clicks a bit louder than it used to when I shift gears, but I wasn't sure if the two things were related at all.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

 

Bump.

Also, it isn't throwing any codes.

 

When was the last time you changed the fluid and filter? Even though it isn't slipping it might help anyways.

 

I'm not sure off the top of my head. I've only had the car for ~7k miles now so I'll have to check the records I got with it to see when it was last done.

I found this DIY for the fluid but didn't see anything about a filter in there. Do you know of any links on how to change it?

Thanks for the help.

 

If it's like other cars I worked on then the filter is in the pan. So you'll have to remove the pan to get to the filter.