08 Spectra5 Terrible Wind Noise

[islanders]

Originally Posted by donnalittlemore

There must be some Canadians and Americans on here... My 120 is kmph, which would be about 70-75 mph.

Yeah, 75 mph is fine. Sorry, that kind of freaked me out thinking you were driving 120 mph. So many people are so reckless and inconsiderate or on their cell phone driving way too slow. But all in all the Kia has been good karma. Sorry again, that was kind of a bad day driving for me.

[donnalittlemore]

No problem; I realize that most of the forum members are likely from the U.S.. I could have included km in my original post, I just didn't think of it.
The noise only seems to happen when there is a strong crosswind.... which happens a fair bit in southern Saskatchewan. Wind is our trademark.

[islanders]

Thanks. The only person who is a kook here is me! I can convert the km to miles well enough but wish the rest of the world would stick with miles. I even researched why you would use km and apparently it's some kind of fraction of the speed of light. Whatever! I'll always have to convert it back to miles.

I'm at a loss why you are experiencing this wind noise? The only thing I can think of is that gutter track along the sides on the roof may be a little loose. If it were me I would carry a roll of duct tape and when it happened again get out and put some tape on the plastic rain gutter in the area where the noise is to see if it stopped the problem. If it doesn't work you know that's not the problem. Then try to identify any crevice or loose rubber door molding that seems out of place in the area that the noise originates. It must be striking an angle or crevice so you could do process of elemination with the tape.

Please let us know if you figure it out!

Edit: I was just thinking, the only thing that I know that makes a howling noise in the wind is the "stay" on a boat. This is a cable that holds the mast in place, but it's just a thin stand of cable in the wind.
So, maybe it is the obvious antenna on top? Could be the loose strip of plastic vibrating, but the only thing I know that howls like that is the cable on a boat.

Does this howling happen when the wind is blowing from one direction or both? If both it's probably the antenna.

[islanders]

You are not going to believe this but I heard the phantom "howl" today. Yep. I was driving over a bridge in a storm and the wind was blowing from the side. I was only driving 60km (45mph) and there was a moaning howling noise from the back. Couldn't tell if it was from the top or bottom. I couldn't speed up either because the car in front was driving so slow.

Maybe it's from the spoiler or the wheel wells? I don't think it's anything to worry about.

It didn't do it long, but it was strange because the entire car seemed to moaning.