Sorry, need a mechanic again! (brakes, ABS, chip, engine)
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I am the one that hit the pothole and borrowed my son in laws extra car until mine is fixed.
So anyway, I just got towed in that one too.
His is 15 years old also and when I was driving it this loud screeching sound started, I would describe it as metal screeching and it just continued until I pulled over and parked the car.
The mechanic called a little while ago and said the sound is not happening at all since he has had it. He said he has run every test and there is nothing wrong with the car! So I think my son in law thinks I am crazy now, lol. I may very well be crazy but that car was screeching very loudly and I did NOT imagine that! Has anybody ever heard of anything like this happening?
I drove it last week and the ABS light kept coming on. My son in law said it sticks sometimes in very cold weather, also when I would stop, sometimes it would make a weird sound like a skipping sound from the breaks as I stopped.
It stops fine though but I don't know if the 2 are connected.
I am worried about driving it now even though the mechanic says there is nothing wrong.
Any ideas?
Thanks again!
Two things come to mind. Brake pad sensors, they tell you when pads are almost worn out or the serpentine belt tensioner (or something that's belt driven) going out letting the belt slip and squeal. Either would be easy to find.
Did the noise stop when the car stopped moving or not until you turned the engine off?
The automatic brake adjuster ratchet in my rear drum brake broke, and a piece of it got in between the drum and the shoes, and scraped when the car was rolling. There was a degree of intermittence in it,, depending on where the piece positioned itself. So maybe there is simply a broken metal part caught inside your wheels, which can make the noise when it is in such a position, but can also move around in the wheel so at times it doesn't. Pull the wheel and see if there is a broken piece of hardware in there. A chip might have broken off the brake pad, or anything.
Rock in the brakes. When they backed it up it fell out. Bye bye noise.
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