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The Hellcat makes a noise that sounds like its being caused by air flow. There's a video on you tube that has the noise.
Mine does this and I was hoping someone knows the solution. The noise comes from the driver side front.
Scares the Hell out of you when it occurs,
 

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Had a high performance sports car make some wind noise at speed in windy and with cross wind conditions.

The noise was air escaping out a side window. The rubber weather stripping had aged some and didn't push against the glass as hard as it did new.

The weathering stripped was folded. Rather than have the car in to have the tech adjust the side glass to press against the weather stripping harder I took a length of small diameter o-ring material and put it in the bottom of the fold. This caused the side of the fold which pressed against the glass to press with a bit more force. Noise gone.

If you are going to run at 120+ MPH you aren't likely to do it for long. Before you get to this speed you can just shut off the cabin vent fan to reduce the amount of air that is brought into the cabin thus reduce the chances air pressure in the cabin becomes enough to force air out from around the side glass.

Or lower the side windows a bit.
 

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The Hellcat makes a noise that sounds like its being caused by air flow. There's a video on you tube that has the noise.
Mine does this and I was hoping someone knows the solution. The noise comes from the driver side front.
Scares the Hell out of you when it occurs,
Speaking of fun noises.
My lower right engine under-tray piece was not, shall we say, well-attached. I did a high-speed run and was later rewarded by a big scraping sound as I drove. I got to a parking lot and found that somehow the tray piece had jammed down so it was dragging on the pavement. I folded it up, but it's getting replaced, haha. One of the mysteries you may uncover buying used. So far, buying a used Hellcat has been one of the top best decisions of my life. I not only bought it, but got it from across the country with only pictures and words from the dealer. No disappointments. It even seemed pretty well ceramic-coated, which was a nice bonus. Getting that re-done, also, after two years.

BTW, I don't necessarily advise putting hydrophobic coating on your windshield. When the wiper passes over, you want the water to be a very thin sheet, not a bunch of relatively tall drops, as the thin sheet rapidly evaporates, whereas the drops remain an annoying visual nag until the windshield is well and truly heated up by the defog warmth, which makes the water evaporate from the outside with greater eagerness far more affectively on a microscopically thin sheet of water than on droplets. A friend with a Tesla was wondering why his windshield and wipers, both brand new, do that annoying thing of leaving water behind so much, but I noticed his glass is hydrophobically coated.

A hydrophilic coating may be more appropriate.
 

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I had a similar issue with my Challenger Hellcat and created a thread about it. Hope this helps:



 

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That's the noise!

Per the thread I posted:

I took the Hellcat to the Dealership this morning and the tech. adjusted the window.

Before any adjustments, he took a dollar bill and placed it at the top of the window and closed it. Then slowly pulled the dollar bill out. You could definitely tell a difference between the drivers side and the passenger side window. The passenger side window was tighter and could feel that when you pulled the dollar bill out.

After the adjustments, the tech told me the window was as far up as it would go, but he adjusted the tilt of the window so that it tilted inward more. He said he had a little tilt adjustment left, but he wanted to try it at this setting.

Well that must have been all it needed because I took it out later and ran it up to Ludicrous speed several times and never encountered any squealing from the window like before.

Cliff notes: Adjusting window tilt solved problem.




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