Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Car talk:scrapping noise after belt change?

i took the car to the shop for just a regular oil change+ rotation, dude walks up, sounding grave (note the place was empty...u know, bad economy), said my belts were bad and needed to be changed.. i got serpentine...(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpentine_鈥?/a> so they did change, right... so i drive off, get on free way and lo and bhold, at %26gt;60mps my freaking steering starts vibrating.. i got new tires %26lt;4months, and they got balancing already... then after i stopped, car becomes cold, starting off or making bends i got this loud screeching shrill noise from car. any ideas what they did wrong that could have caused it?
Car talk:scrapping noise after belt change?
Bad idler pulley for serpentine belt. Tires need to be re-balanced.


Car talk:scrapping noise after belt change?
that definitely sounds like your power steering pump is acting up. Changing the belt shouldn't have anything to do with it unless it is too loose. Try going out to your car, start the car and leave it in park now turn your wheel all the way to the lock. If you hear a screeching noise then that's what it is. Now you may just need to bleed to system which is done by turning the wheel from lock to lock to lock to lock and so on until the screeching stops. If it doesn't, go back to that shop.