Long shot, but 10 days ago my alternator completely failed on me, drove the car to work on the morning, all was fine, got in to return home and it had failed. The noise you are mentioning, if it almost sounds like an enhanced "turbo" i.E. A loud version of the turbo, there is every possibility that your alternator is on its way out, mine achieved 49800 miles. When I exceeded 2000 RPM on a 1.6TDCi, the noise disappeared. Might be worth a look!
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 AT 7:40 AM