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My corsa has just started squeeling when i accelerate in low gears. It does not do it all the time but it is very embarrasing. Is it a problem with the fan belt or something else?
Can you smell anything? If not, then it's probably a belt.
There is a tiny smell of rubber but that it.
i thought it might be fan belt but i have had a look and it seems to be tight enough and in pretty good nick. Does any1 else have any clues.
Not a water pump or something?
I'm not that mechanically minded, I have to say.
I'm not either dave
Rubbery smell could be clutch maybe.. how low/high is the bite point?
Could be, might be worth taking the car for a drive say up to 40mph, changing into fifth and accelerating hard to see if there is any clutch slip. Other way is a stall test - place it in 3rd, revs up and release the clutch - if it stalls the clutch is fine.
On the water pump front, any leaks etc?
Hi Vicki, and welcome.Originally Posted by vicki1981
It is likely to be the fan belt, which ironically, doesn't turn the fan at all. It turns the alternator, for charging the battery.
They need to be very tight, so it might seem tense, but it might need doing up. When the battery is under load, it should squeal more, so when you've just started, and the battery as been drainined by the starter motor.
If you can get a socket set, and some ring spanners and a bleedin' great big screw driver/other strong steel long thing, to use for leverage, then you loosen the bolts on the alternator (just loosen, so it moves a little) then use the screwdriver and prise the alternator whichever way it needs to go to make the belt very taught... and then while holding the tension, do up the bolts, again, preferable the one that slides to help you catch it at it's most tense.
Prolly a two person job.
IF however, it's not the belt, it MIGHT be a slipping clutch, but not likely, as they don't tend to squeal much. More likely to be a drive shaft joint. (a CV joint... constant velocity joint) They can squeal. Of it's that, you need a new drive shaft really.
Best way to tell: does the squealing happen BEFORE you even start moving.... ?
If it ONLY squeals when you actually start moving, it's likely to be a drive shaft joint or other drive component... but IF it squeals BEFORE the car moves.. just when you raise the revs... it CANT be the drive shaft, and must be the belt
whereabouts are you based?
overseas im guessing or she would be calling it a novaaaaaaa
Vodka
I think it's a typo, and she's UK... Corsa Twist was around 1995. I sold loads of themoverseas im guessing or she would be calling it a novaaaaaaa
thanx for all the advice. I am based in leeds and yeah it was a typo as its n reg, sorry. I have been out in my car again and it never squeeled at all then when i parked up and came back and started it up about an hour later it started squeeling just as i was putting my foot down on the accelerator to pull away. It kept doing this for a while when in low gears and setting off. I have been out today and there was no squeeling again. Any ideas. Im totally miffed.
put the rear demister on, lights on, heater fan on full to load the battery, if it squeels more with them all on turn everything off and see if it shuts up a bit. if it does its the fan belt, if not it may be the thrust bearing, cheap part but costs in time to do it. may as well have a new clutch if it comes to thrust bearing.
if its a fan belt ask the local lad under his bonnet if he will swap it for a tenner
Does it squeal when NOT moving.. with brakes on.. can you make it squeal?
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