Guess the Squeek

[milly143]

I noticed this morning my car is making a strange squeeking noise, most noticable when I go round a left hand bend. It sounds like it's coming from the rear left side. My bf borrowed it to take himself and 4 others to Manchester on Sunday, could the weight of all of them done something? Suspension maybe? It's a VW Golf.

[redman41]

Check this out milly143 ! Could solve your problem !! lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF-KJ5-KNQk

[milly143]

ooohhh, thank god. It's just my earrings! lol.

[alexanderd]

who says its yours!!!

[milly143]

oooeerrr....

[DTCwordfan]

Looking at that, a friend of mine opened the hood of his car in Texas to find a 6 ft snake there..............

[R1Geezer]

Quite a lot of cars these days have small wire on the brake callipers such that when the pads wear thin it rubs against the outside of the disc, this makes a whinning sound and is designed to make you get your pads changed before they wear out and score your discs and cost a fortune. This sounds to me like what is happenning and as it's most noticable when going round a left hand bend I'd say your brake pads on the right may be wearing thin.

[milly143]

Thanks R1! I'll get the brakes checked out on the weekend.

[boxtops]

I've got one of them milly, it sounds like ball bearings. I've had the car serviced and they couldn't find anything. It tends to be loudest when I'm going downhill - most odd.

[Buenchico]

Probably every car I've ever had has, at some time, developed a 'squeal' (from one or more wheels) when going around corners. In every case it has been (as Boxtops suggests) a wheel bearing problem.

Chris

[AlBags]

One of them still stuck underneath? lol

[milly143]

Oh bugger, I thought that shouting of "help me" was just coming from the radio.

Ok, so brakes and wheel baring to be checked. I like to go to the garage and suggest what the problem might be, as if I might know what I'm talking about. Which of course I don't.