Sigh...
I just poured a lot of money on overdue maintenance and some repair work into my Land Barge aka Mom's old Buick Park Ave.
I had front suspension work done.. and about a week later, terrible squeaking started coming from what sounded like the front end. With the holidays and other stuff, I wasn't able to get back to Firestone until today. They inspected the car and told me the noise is coming from the steering column.
It is particularly bad when I cut the wheel hard counterclockwise (left turn) but I hear the noise plenty other times. It sounds like squeaking rubber on rubber or rubber on metal. Ever walk on a hard vinyl floor with wet sneakers... squeak-a, squeak-a errrrerrrrerrrrerrr. A belt maybe? I don't know what comprises the steering mechanism aside from the linkage in the front end.
So, my question is to any gearheads here as to what this infernal noise may be... They want to do a "diagnostic" on it... another 50 bucks at a minimum ... to try to figure it out.
Did I say before that I hate this car????!!!!! Not just that it has cost me a fortune since it became mine, but that I don't like driving it or design of it, etc.
I just poured a lot of money on overdue maintenance and some repair work into my Land Barge aka Mom's old Buick Park Ave.
I had front suspension work done.. and about a week later, terrible squeaking started coming from what sounded like the front end. With the holidays and other stuff, I wasn't able to get back to Firestone until today. They inspected the car and told me the noise is coming from the steering column.
It is particularly bad when I cut the wheel hard counterclockwise (left turn) but I hear the noise plenty other times. It sounds like squeaking rubber on rubber or rubber on metal. Ever walk on a hard vinyl floor with wet sneakers... squeak-a, squeak-a errrrerrrrerrrrerrr. A belt maybe? I don't know what comprises the steering mechanism aside from the linkage in the front end.
So, my question is to any gearheads here as to what this infernal noise may be... They want to do a "diagnostic" on it... another 50 bucks at a minimum ... to try to figure it out.
Did I say before that I hate this car????!!!!! Not just that it has cost me a fortune since it became mine, but that I don't like driving it or design of it, etc.