FYI - My 06 2WD X is going to have the entire diff. replaced as soon as they get one in. As is usually the case, it's on national backorder.
This comes from a harmonic whine I have been hearing since just about a month or two after I got it, but it may have been there from day one.
It's very hard to duplicate, but it's there in mine.
Basically, if you're running a steady 75 or 80, where I usually run on the freeway, and you are feathering the throttle (not on it, but not all the way off of it), you can hear this slight wine, which can become louder at different speeds. You can also hear it if you have the cruise set at about the same speed, and then hit the 'Cancel' button to turn it off. As the truck decellerates, you can hear this whine momentarily.To give you an idea of what it sounds like, it's like when you're on a school bus, sitting in the back, and the bus gets to going really fast and you just hear this whining groan from the rear.
Someone else suggested that the backlash should be adjusted in the diff., but the Service Manager at the dealer said they aren't adjustable any more.
They're ordering a whole new rearend assembly.
The truck is 5 months and 19 days old today, and has 19,750 miles on it so far.