Good evening!
An update!
My car has had another new waterpump and FINALLY the noise is gone!!!!
It's wonderful and quiet - I am SO SO SO SO happy!!!
I took it into Woodmans this time and the service was fantastic! I was only there looking at pricing some accessories and asked them to take a look at the engine - it was booked in for the following week. Today it had a new water pump, poly v belt for the pump, some kind of water drive wheel thing and a hexagon bolt?!.
The noise is gone! The feeling was amazing to know I was not insane and there was a problem! I discussed with the techie that perhaps preston had fitted ANOTHER dodgy water pump hence the noise staying which makes me thing it is a bad batch of pumps on some 2008 cars...
They also found my rear speakers had blown (?!) considering I never have loud music on that was interesting.....
But once that is done, I have NO issues just a very quiet, rather lovely mini!! And touch wood it has no rattles, and no other issues!!!!
:-D
For all with the whining/whistling engine, a very quiet noise is normal, a loud embarassing noise is not.
Get it sorted! I recommend woodmans!
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