Am I crazy? - Road noise after dent repair?

Hi everyone,


Previously while driving my 2023 Tahoe High Country, I could barely hear any noise from the outside including the road and other cars. Even on the undivided highway, I pleasantly enjoyed my music. At least this is what I remember.....


The Tahoe was just in the shop (local mechanic) for two weeks to repair a dent above the rear right wheel well. No new panel required. They took off the bump to acccess the rear right panel.


So I havn't driven it for two weeks until a couple days ago. I don't know if it's just me, in my head, or that I am remembering wrong. I now hear loud road noises while driving on the undivided highway. Every time a car drives past me, I can hear the "whoosh", for every single car. This is really annoying because some times there are cars one after another so I hear "whoosh" "whoosh" "whoosh" and it bothers me a lot.

I can hear car car engines when it drives past me if my I am parked.

I checked the tires and it's still the stock 22 inch tires.

This is suddently annoying me. I don't know if it's always been like this and it's just in my head now.

Am I crazy? Is this normal?

All windows are up of course. Sunroof is also closed. Checked the door insulation strips and they are there.

Can you guys/gals please just confirm with me if the whooshing sound is normal when you drive past other cars? Undivided highway at 80 km/hr. So during high traffic I constantly hear "whoosh".

Any suggestions, thank you.

Maybe he had to remove sound deadening material to fix the dent? I've found the 'non-invasive ' dent fixing to be rather perplexing......like how do you not *** up the inside to push the metal out? I'd ask what was removed to do the repair and go from there. Maybe you got some lazy dude who threw stuff away so he didn't have to put it back.

Is the wheelhouse liner intact?

tahoe_highcountry said:

The Tahoe was just in the shop (local mechanic) for two weeks to repair a dent above the rear right wheel well. No new panel required. They took off the bump to acccess the rear right panel.

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“The rear right wheel well…” I’m guessing is the passenger side rear wheel well.

Does the additional noise you’re hearing now seem to be louder from that area?

I would start by opening the two rear doors both driver and passenger side and just start inspecting what’s there and maybe see if you can visually see if anything isn’t there or perhaps something isn’t fully clipped in or attached?

Then definitely head back to the body shop and let them know what you’re experiencing.

That being said, unfortunately the reality is it will be hard to remedy because the body shop won’t exactly have a before noise level to compare or use as a base level in determining if your vehicle is in fact louder or not due to the work they’ve done.