A few days ago my car developed a loud, constant squeal while running. It is there regardless of RPM, but it gets a little quieter at higher RPMs.
It's actually loudest if I'm driving really slow, for example driving through the 20mph school zone this morning my car was making a [censored] of a racket that even the radio could not cover up but if I'm doing 60 on the highway it's not that bad but still there..
I know my belt and alternator are fine because those were both replaced at the same time and the belt isn't loose or slipping at all.
When I run the A/C or when I run the defroster, each time the compressor kicks on the whole car surges, I was sitting at a red light and the compressor kicked on and the RPMs dipped down to like 400 and the whole car shuddered like it was gonna stall out like it did when I had my vacuum leak problem but luckily it caught itself and it did not stall.
The compressor has already been replaced once since I have had the car (forgot to mention that in a previous post) and the maintenance records show it had been done once before then as well.
If it's not the compressor about to crap itself again what else could it be?
It's getting more tempting to go ahead and cut out all my stereo equipment, abandon my old wiring in place, swap the factory headunit back in, and just throw it on the selling block and move on.
It's actually loudest if I'm driving really slow, for example driving through the 20mph school zone this morning my car was making a [censored] of a racket that even the radio could not cover up but if I'm doing 60 on the highway it's not that bad but still there..
I know my belt and alternator are fine because those were both replaced at the same time and the belt isn't loose or slipping at all.
When I run the A/C or when I run the defroster, each time the compressor kicks on the whole car surges, I was sitting at a red light and the compressor kicked on and the RPMs dipped down to like 400 and the whole car shuddered like it was gonna stall out like it did when I had my vacuum leak problem but luckily it caught itself and it did not stall.
The compressor has already been replaced once since I have had the car (forgot to mention that in a previous post) and the maintenance records show it had been done once before then as well.
If it's not the compressor about to crap itself again what else could it be?
It's getting more tempting to go ahead and cut out all my stereo equipment, abandon my old wiring in place, swap the factory headunit back in, and just throw it on the selling block and move on.
