What is causing my car to make squealing noises?

Timmy Bustard: 1st guess is the belt(s) need replacing. Belts are cheap. 2nd guess water pump bearing. Serious dollars on many Honda's.

Elinore Schlinker: you're saying that that's a 2000 motor vehicle meaning that that's maximum in all probability travelled over one hundred,000 kilometres (~sixty two,000 miles). whilst a motor vehicle reaches this milestone the 1st ingredient that desires relpacement is the timing belt. The timing belt controls the timing of the engine's valves (i.e. which one fires whilst). this suggests that it works for the whole time that the motor vehicle has ignition, for ALL one hundred,000km. As you may wager, this places an important quantity of placed on and tear via the time it reaches this milestone, and the main ordinary grievance of a drained timing belt is a squealing or whining noise. See in case you may get that appeared at and good success! Pat....Show more

Reyes Brunell: belts, brakes not very expensive to repair

A! n Trebil: Well, squealing usually point toward belts....But the part of it continuing when you turn off the car makes me wonder. I'm thinking that your car's radiator cooling fan is starting to go bad. The fan motor bearing or bushings must be bad.Most modern cars, when the A/C is on, it automatically turns on the cooling fan for the radiator to increase the air flowing to the cooling system. You stated it stops when you turned off the AC. Yes, it could be belts, but then you stated it sometimes continued after you turn the car off. Well, the only thing that COULD run AFTER turning off the engine is the engine radiator fan. There are some vehicles that have other electric motors for other uses....When you are in stop and go traffic and not moving, does the noise happen more often vs when you are just cruising down the street (traffic moving)? When you are moving, there is usually enough air flowing through the radiator and the fan doesn't turn on. If you are in traf! fic, not moving and have the A/C on, it WILL turn on. Next tim! e this happens, if you can pull off the road safely, open the hood w/ the engine running. Listen to where the sound is coming from. If it's by the belts (which I doubt), you know where it is coming from. If it's from the front, it's prob. the radiator cooling fan.... but at least it can be isolated.Sometimes a motor can be replaced or the entire fan assembly. Log onto a parts place (look below) and see what their prices are and availability.Being a 4 cylinder engine, getting the fan off might be easy.... maybe. Should be enough room...Show more