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2016 Toyota Sequoia AC making a farting noise

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#1 ·
Hello, I owned a 2004 Toyota Sequoia never had an issue just upgraded to a 2016 Toyota sequoia platinum edition and never heard it in winter months but now that summer is here and the air is running a lot. I hear a farting noise after I run the car, maybe 20 minutes it comes and goes. It’s pretty sporadic.
I saw when I googled that there’s a lot of information that this is happening in the 2012 to 2018 Toyota sequoias but nobody knows what it is. Some people have had the fan motor blowers replaced but did not fix it. Somebody said they thought it could be the damper door but it literally sounds like a fart. Does anybody have any idea?
 
#2 ·
Can you get a clip of it? Not because I think it will help,I just want to hear it for a good laugh.

It's probably something rubbing on something, does it do it if it's on manual temp control instead of automatic? If you sweep the controls for temp, position, and recirculate manually can you make it fart?
 
#3 · (Edited by Moderator)
Can you get a clip of it? Not because I think it will help,I just want to hear it for a good laugh.

It's probably something rubbing on something, does it do it if it's on manual temp control instead of automatic? If you sweep the controls for temp, position, and recirculate manually can you make it fart?
Honestly I don’t know, but I will try that in the car to see if it does it. It’s just doing it randomly once I turn the air on not changing any settings. I will attempt to upload a video so you can hear it.


This is a link of the exact noise. My air conditioner is making. I have not caught my car when I can make a video it’s so sporadic but I found this on YouTube and this is it and it comes and it goes. Anybody know what this is 2016 Toyota Sequoia platinum.
 
#8 ·
OK, good to know, I’m going to take it into Toyota and I’m going to show them the video I have although I have yet to catch it on video in my car I guess I’m not in it enough, it’s just very weird because there’s a lot of people out there saying the same thing even in tundras making this noise, I call it farting. I don’t know if that’s the right word I guess it could be a dragging noise, but obviously I’d like to fix it, but I don’t want to replace parts that don’t need to be because of the expense. I’m just hoping my local Toyota will have dealt with it before and know exactly what it is but based on the Internet, nobody’s really figured it out because some people had their blower motor replaced and it still does it. I haven’t actually seen anyone say they did a damper door replacement.
 
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