Recently purchased a 2002 WRX with 87k miles on it. Ran wonderful for the first 3.5 months. Ive never run it hard just back and forth to work. Anyway, noticed a noise coming home from work, original thought was wheel bearing, found out the noise was coming from the back of the transmission. Have been told many things 1) Transmission is bad 2) Center differential bearing is bad 3) Pinion bearing is bad 4) whole differential is gone.
Car makes a "whirring noise" after it gets up to temp starts as intermittent and then becomes more constant. This occurs while under a load or coasting. Noise increases with speed and decreases as you decelerate. The all might youtube videos I have seen for "bad center diff" sound exactly like the noise my car makes. I guess I am wondering what I need to fix it bare minimum and worst case scenario parts labor etc.
Thanks for any help
Car makes a "whirring noise" after it gets up to temp starts as intermittent and then becomes more constant. This occurs while under a load or coasting. Noise increases with speed and decreases as you decelerate. The all might youtube videos I have seen for "bad center diff" sound exactly like the noise my car makes. I guess I am wondering what I need to fix it bare minimum and worst case scenario parts labor etc.
Thanks for any help