skydash

Ok,here's a new one. Heard a "chirping cricket" noise tonight in my garage. After exhausting every source, I discovered the noise was coming from my engine bay. I have never heard this noise before. It sounds exactly like a cricket,and it is still doing it 3 hours after I arrived home.It is NOT a cricket(I know,my first guess too),but it sounds very similar to the sound a cricket makes. It is a random pattern,with the noise occurring approximately every 5 seconds. It is not the humming sound these things make either.This is a noise I've never heard before. My car is a '16 IS350F with approx. 12,500 miles.Any guesses??

nathantse

Was the car on when you hear this noise?

Maybe it is a cricket? lol

skydash

No,as I said in my post it's not a cricket. The car was in my garage,with the ignition off. Heard it immediately,and 3 hours later it is still doing it. I even started the car and turned it off.....still doing it.

Sasnuke

Any chance you can post a clip of the noise?

skydash

I made a video(mainly for the noise)... I don't have any idea how to post it though!!!

Sasnuke

Try the symbol to the left of the Smily face in the posting banner...it's a square with a mountain profile in it, with a sun in the sky. When you hover over it, it says "Image".

skydash

Just turn up the volume and listen.
Let's see if this works......

nathantse

Unplug the battery and see if it still does it.

dojoman

iTrader: (5)

I believe this is normal. I've heard this sound in my garage too you hear this when the environment is very quiet.
Is your car 2014? Maybe it's the sound of battery draining.

skydash

Its a 2016. NEVER heard this before,and my car is garaged so I would've heard it before. Not a mechanical sound IMO. Gotta be electrically generated. Just wondering what the heck it is....

skydash

Almost midnight. I'll check in the am to see if it's still doing it. A mechanical source doesn't make sense. Gotta be electrically generated.

Sasnuke

Is it still doing it? That is one weird sound.

Solara350

its still doing even after couple hours ? wow that's weird, my friend Turbo Eagle Talon doing this for around 5 mins right after turn off STOP the car, my Supercharge Solara only do this for 10-15 seconds and the hissing sound when the car is cold, i didn't bother for 10 years. We don't know why ! bring it to dealer and show them the video too. Don't guess, i don't think anyone would know, this sounds like an OLD Engine in the 80s 90s. that 2JZ supra engine does the same lol

skydash

It stopped sometime in the night. Carried it to my local Lexus dealer today and played them the video..no one has EVER heard that sound before....ever. Go figure.🙄

pnoygil

It sounds like thats the emissions system checking for leak in the system..