Hello,
Something very strange happened last night and I wanted to ask for an opinion from more experienced people than myself.
Here is a step by step recap of what I did and what was happening to the car:
1. Parked the car and went for a meeting. (car behaves normally)
2. Return from a meeting after 2 hours and enter the car, the car looks the same, no signs of hits or anything (also no rain in those 2 hours).
3. Put the key in the ignition and immediately try to start the car.
4. The lights turn on for a brief moment, the starter just started to make a sound and immediately all the power went down, turning the key back and fourth didn't change anything.
5. I take the key out of the ignition and start to hear a strange noise coming from the engine compartment.
6. I open the hood and hear very loud "quaking" noises coming from the left side of the engine compartment (not the engine). At first I thought the noise sounds like some fluid under pressure, but then I think it also could be similar to some electric short noises.
7. The noises continue for about a minute then stop, then start again after 10-20 seconds. The noises goes on for about 10 minutes, sometimes stopping and then starting again.
8. I couldn't think of anything I could do, I checked the engine oil and it looked fine. After around 10 minutes I tried inserting the keys again in the ignition and still no response.
9. I finally thought about disconnecting and reconnecting the battery.
10. After I reconnected the battery the alarm immediately started going off. I couldn't hear any noises coming from the engine compartment.
11. After waiting for a few minutes without noises I inserted the keys into the ignition and everything looked normal, the power was back on and the car started normally.
12. After that I couldn't hear any strange sounds and the car behaved normally.
I would like to know if anyone had similar experience? and whether I should get it checked, I don't really know what to say to the mechanic if I went there.
I recorded a video of the noises, the microphone is *********** so it sounds a bit different in the video (In the video it might sound similar to "mechanical" noise coming from a small engine, but in reality it didn't sound like anything mechanical, and as I said, the car was completely dead, keys out of the ignition).
Also, it sounded like the noise comes of the black thing on the shock absorber housing or somewhere in it's vicinity.
The noises at the start is from a passing vehicle.
Hope some of you could help me with that.
The car is a 2003 jazz (made in japan)