[Fahad]

Thank you for the useful post Raistian77, I have searched and found the tachometer driver but unfortunately its currently out of my budget (still a college student).
So it seems I ll live without one for a while but I at least learned a lot from this.

@college man unfortunately my phone camera somehow decided to not store the photos I take, also… all the pictures I had taken by the camera and those that were in the phone memory have completely vanished and whenever I try to take a new picture, it does not store it at all. sigh…. mobiles are unreliable these days, I wonder when humans can create something stable once and for all.

Well I guess that sums it all up, life keeps pushing me to the edge, it’s just a matter of time before I start pushing back.

Thank you all for your help. I really appreciate it! 😆

[Fahad]

Thank you for the useful post Raistian77, I have searched and found the tachometer driver but unfortunately its currently out of my budget (still a college student).
So it seems I ll live without one for a while but I at least learned a lot from this.

@college man unfortunately my phone camera somehow decided to not store the photos I take, also… all the pictures I had taken by the camera and those that were in the phone memory have completely vanished and whenever I try to take a new picture, it does not store it at all. sigh…. mobiles are unreliable these days, I wonder when humans can create something stable once and for all.

Well I guess that sums it all up, life keeps pushing me to the edge, it’s just a matter of time before I start pushing back.

Thank you all for your help. I really appreciate it! 😆

[Fahad]

Very well, i ll take some photos first thing in the morning and post them here.

[Fahad]

Very well, i ll take some photos first thing in the morning and post them here.

[Fahad]

According to the car specs it seems to be a 4 cylinder model.
How can I find out what type of ignition system I have? What does it look like?

[Fahad]

According to the car specs it seems to be a 4 cylinder model.
How can I find out what type of ignition system I have? What does it look like?

[Fahad]

Sorry for letting you guys wait, I had college + exams….etc

Anyways I made a little discovery today,I decided to drive approx 52km(approx 32.3 miles) from home to college without turning on the AC or fans, the instance I came into parking, I started hearing the chirp noises and about +4.7% vibrations again,mind that gear was in D/R when this occurred. I also noticed that if I change gear into N or P the noise fades away, the noise also fades away when in D/R and I rev the engine but comes back at low revs. The occurrence of this noise isn’t much, more like happens 30% ~ 40% of the times on a stop/brake/park.

I tried spinning the suspected faulty fan and it spins freely unlike the working one, it spins with a little bit of resistance.

I’m still not that familiar with engine compartment components but could it be related to some sort of clutch components? can some clutch components generate bird chirping sounds? perhaps some sort of bearings as well?

[Fahad]

Sorry for letting you guys wait, I had college + exams….etc

Anyways I made a little discovery today,I decided to drive approx 52km(approx 32.3 miles) from home to college without turning on the AC or fans, the instance I came into parking, I started hearing the chirp noises and about +4.7% vibrations again,mind that gear was in D/R when this occurred. I also noticed that if I change gear into N or P the noise fades away, the noise also fades away when in D/R and I rev the engine but comes back at low revs. The occurrence of this noise isn’t much, more like happens 30% ~ 40% of the times on a stop/brake/park.

I tried spinning the suspected faulty fan and it spins freely unlike the working one, it spins with a little bit of resistance.

I’m still not that familiar with engine compartment components but could it be related to some sort of clutch components? can some clutch components generate bird chirping sounds? perhaps some sort of bearings as well?

[Fahad]

Thank you all for the useful comments.

I had some free time yesterday so I took the car to a near by Automotive Electrician and as soon as I showed him the video on my phone, he seem to have knew the main culprit as I described him the car history.
He told me that the symptom is commonly related to car’s alternator belt and that it makes that squeal noise when its not “properly” tensioned.

He only took a couple minutes to re-tension it properly and asked me to see if the sound will come back on the next cold start but he doubted that would happen.

So, the next cold start is today and I was skeptical but surprisingly it did not make any squealing noise, not even a little, no chirps either and the other symptom’s seem to have diminished as well.

I’m very happy with the initial result but I’m still doubtful about the long run and if it may come back after a couple weeks or so.

But so far so good, thank you all for the incredibly useful comments, I will keep you all posted in case the issue comes back. 😉

[Fahad]

Thank you all for the useful comments.

I had some free time yesterday so I took the car to a near by Automotive Electrician and as soon as I showed him the video on my phone, he seem to have knew the main culprit as I described him the car history.
He told me that the symptom is commonly related to car’s alternator belt and that it makes that squeal noise when its not “properly” tensioned.

He only took a couple minutes to re-tension it properly and asked me to see if the sound will come back on the next cold start but he doubted that would happen.

So, the next cold start is today and I was skeptical but surprisingly it did not make any squealing noise, not even a little, no chirps either and the other symptom’s seem to have diminished as well.

I’m very happy with the initial result but I’m still doubtful about the long run and if it may come back after a couple weeks or so.

But so far so good, thank you all for the incredibly useful comments, I will keep you all posted in case the issue comes back. 😉

[Fahad]

I just came back from a short night ride and I made a couple new little discoveries:
After taking off and once braking for the nearby road bump, I had the urge to lift all 4 electric window handles so I did it, and the squeal CAME BACK but was gone as soon as I released the handles,mind that the AC was on and fan on Lvl 1.
However, once the car is warm after a while, this does not happen anymore no matter how many times I try it.

The 2nd discovery is that, when headlights are ON, if I lift all the electric window handles, I notice that the front headlights get about 5% dimmer until I release the handles, they get back to normal.

I will take grg88 input into consideration as it gave me some insight and a new path to look into.

[Fahad]

I just came back from a short night ride and I made a couple new little discoveries:
After taking off and once braking for the nearby road bump, I had the urge to lift all 4 electric window handles so I did it, and the squeal CAME BACK but was gone as soon as I released the handles,mind that the AC was on and fan on Lvl 1.
However, once the car is warm after a while, this does not happen anymore no matter how many times I try it.

The 2nd discovery is that, when headlights are ON, if I lift all the electric window handles, I notice that the front headlights get about 5% dimmer until I release the handles, they get back to normal.

I will take grg88 input into consideration as it gave me some insight and a new path to look into.

[Fahad]

Here is a quick video I took a while ago

That noise just makes it a lot harder to concentrate where it exactly comes from, however it seems to be the serpentine belt,the closest one to me. I’m a software engineering student and I don’t have much experience when it comes to car components. =/

[Fahad]

Here is a quick video I took a while ago

That noise just makes it a lot harder to concentrate where it exactly comes from, however it seems to be the serpentine belt,the closest one to me. I’m a software engineering student and I don’t have much experience when it comes to car components. =/

[Fahad]

Sure thing college man. It’s night time right but I’ll have someone tomorrow help me check which belt is making noise and maybe we will take a video of it….hopefully it doesn’t snap off and crashes the camera or me D;

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