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Hi John, did have my heat shield come loose a couple yrs ago, makes a hell of rattle noise at highway speeds. I did repair it, but probably good to have a look on its current state.   Thanks for reply  

Thanks for the reply and insight, maybe I will try to improve on the wheel well attachment points and see if that does anything! 
 

Ps: yup 120km is 75mph, we have the metric system here in Canada!!, lol

Hi, 2011 Journey R/T AWD

On my recent trip , I was cruising at 120kms or higher, we noticed a low pitch vibration type of noise appearing to coming from the right side, if I slowed down to 100km or lower the noise disappears. To me it sounds like something under the car that is exposed gets wind vibrating at this higher speed.

l looked the the plastic R wheel inner shield , nothing seems out of place, although there is some play around mounting points of the shield, I also noticed there also another “L” shaped plastic shield attached by 2 bolts and appears to cover the lower flywheel area. This piece is quite flimsy and has lots of movement, also there 2 holes on the bottom end that look like for attachment but appears no area to attach? Just looking for ideas, or other members having similar noise. Pic of shield attached.
Thanks for your help

I check with  engine hot, sitting for 10 minutes and turned off, I just checked level and it was at the 3/4 level in the hashmarks, I had used 5.6 litres of oil at change

Thanks for all the responses and recommendations! 

Thanks conversion of 6us quarts = 5.7litres , so that’s what I going with, just odd that the manual is wrong, maybe it was corrected in the new versions

Thanks for the response, here is the manual details , for your eyes only! Lol

i am going with the 5.6litre fill which puts the oil in the middle of the safe zone on dipstick 

But in reality if a person was to go by the manual, the engine would be under filled and possibly resulting in damage?

Update: after car sat for 20 minutes I recheck the oil level and it was at the mid point of hashmarks, so I added a bit more to get to the 5.6ltr amount, which should put level at about 3/4 in safe zone, it appears my manual is wrong at 5.2ltre quantity 

Hi have a 11 DJ RT 3.6l - changing my own oil/filter and trying determine how much new oil to add, my manual states 6qt or 5.2ltres, But I added amount of  5.5 litres and that gets me just to lower hashmarks on dipstick, I read eslewhere that engine takes 5.6litres? 
where am to fill oil to,  top of hashmarks which would require additional 1ltre then  it would be over a total of 6.5litres - well above service manual quantity. (After changing I did run engine for 5 minutes before checking oil level)

Thanks

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Thanks for the explanation on the Keyless Go system -- the obvious thing to remember is to ensure vehicle is turned off upon exit. If you leave the vehicle running to go into a store etc quickly and have FOB with you. Someone could hop in and drive away till they shut it down and then would be unable to restart.

Lesson learned here - press the start button to kill the engine at all times!! Good thing that I had locked the doors!! or I posssibly could have been minus a 2011 Journey!!

Thanks - can't agree more on killing the engine on exit - unfortunately being new to No Key starting thus having FOB and other keys in your pocket - it is easy to get out without pushing the off button - a learning curve for us older folks - lol. When this occurred were we parked was near a busy road with alot of noise and meeting friends thus did not hear/realize journey was still running!! and proceeded to lock doors as usual. You bet I will be checking in the future.

Didnt think this was possible but happened....we were meeting friends and I was parking our journey in a lot and travelling with them.....when they arrived we left our car i had my FOB in my pocket but wife left her purse with her FOB in front seat storage area. I went to the passenger side to get some things out of the car, then proceeded to lock doors with the passenger door button lock. All doors locked and horn sounded

Here is the stupid and embarassing part - when I exited forgot to shut off car with start button! - so 4 hrs later we returned to a warm idling journey minus 1/4 tank of gas.

So upon returning home I have been experimenting with this keyless entry and go system - here is what i found: With the car running and you leave with the FOB and lock doors with door handle button - all doors lock and car is still running - now place FOB out of range of vehicle, looking thru the window the EVIC displays that keys have left vehicle but continues to run with doors locked - I thought that after 15 minutes of no active FOB detected it would shut off engine automatically, but nothing happened I let run for 30 minutes still nothing. So I guess it is feasible to exit vehicle with it running and you have the FOB then lock doors, it could continue to run to out of fuel???

Other thing I tried is start vehicle - leave running exit with FOB do not lock doors - place FOB out of range - go back to vehicle the EVIC warning shows Keys have left Vehicle, but you can drive vehicle without the FOB in vehicle - not sure how far you could drive it but was able move up and down driveway. I would think that the if FOB is not detected and vehicle is running as soon as you tried to drive it would automatically shut down??

Tried to read thru the manuals but not much info on this

Appreciate anyone's expertise and assistance Thanks