Clicking Noise From Front When Accelerating and Decelerating
About 6 months ago I started noticing a random “Click” coming from the front. It’s not a “Ticking” sound but a single faint “Click” sound. For weeks I couldn’t figure out what made this sound.
One day I started driving without any music on and I pin pointed that mild to heavy acceleration caused that single “click” noise. Stepping off the accelerator after that also caused the “click” sound just before the regen kicked in.
Around the same time, the car was booked in at Volvo for getting the NVIDIA upgrade and I flagged this issue with Volvo. There was no issue replicating the sound but couldn’t isolate the clicking sound to anything and got booked in for another service to diagnose the issue.
Anyway, yesterday I picked up the car from the second visit and turns out that the noise was isolated to ELECTRONIC FRONT AXLE DRIVE (EFAD). Volvo promptly ordered the part from Sweden and turns out a newer more updated part will be installed.
Anyone had any similar issue and whether the EFAD was the cause of the issue? Can try to record the noise and upload here if needed.