MAPPING OF PEUGEOT & CITROEN VEHICLE NOISES

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Continuous noise **

N°2 N°4 N°5 N°6

Growling Spluttering Grinding Whistling and
Rumbling Crackling Creaking wailing
Whirring Rattling Screeching Hissing/
Air noise

Rapid repetition

Slow repetition

N°3
Banging / knocking / cracking

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Brief noise **
( ) High-
Deep * Intermediate pitched (*)

(*) Note on deep / high-pitched: This vehicle noise mapping’s notion of deep / high-pitched is intended to help and facilitate the correct choice of words to describe the noise required,
amongst others, to locate the source, the phenomenon and the affected unit.
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Extreme example of a deep tone: whirring inside the vehicle at low engine speed 1100rpm (in 3 for example), on a hill.
Extreme example of a high-pitched tone: whistling of a turbo on accelerating under full load at 1800/2500rpm.

(**) Note on brief / continuous noise: A rapidly repeating noise will be detected as a continuous noise by the human ear: claaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaac, biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip, Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
A brief noise can manifest itself according to the repetition modes in the table below:
Occasional « clac » « bip » « bzz »
Repeated « clac clac clac clac clac clac » « bip bip bip bip bip » « bzz bzz bzz »
Cyclical « clac clac clac __ clac clac clac __ clac clac clac » « bip bip bip __ bip bip bip __ bip bip bip » « bzz bzz bzz __ bzz bzz bzz __ bzz bzz bzz »