Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeal

The Emperor had it’s 60k mile ser­vice last week. Not only did they change the tim­ing belt, but while they were in there they changed out the two acces­sory belts. We picked it up Thurs­day evening and all was well until Sat­ur­day morn­ing. We had a MMC break­fast date, so we left the house at about 6:15. Less than a half a mile away from home in our quiet neigh­bor­hood is a 4-way stop. When pulling away from the stop the Emperor started to squeal like a stuck pig. I felt about 2″ high. I was sure that lights were going on in the houses around me as the peo­ple tried to locate the Siamese cat in heat. The sound went away after about 5 sec­onds and didn’t reoc­cur. I fig­ured a lit­tle con­den­sa­tion from the car com­ing out into warm moist air from the air con­di­tioned garage, so the belt slipped a lit­tle bit.

Nice the­ory, but how do I explain what caused the same squeal this after­noon after work. It lasted longer than Saturday’s episode, about 10 sec­onds. I had time to cycle the A/C a cou­ple times and when off the first time the squeal stopped and restarted when the A/C was turned back on. When I turned off the A/C the sec­ond time the squeal con­tin­ued, but stopped shortly there after. Donna said lets take it back to the dealer. I would have, but the place is over 60 miles and an hour away. If they were less than half that I prob­a­bly would.

So, what causes belt squeal? Too tight? Too loose? Either? Bite the bul­let and take it back? Is this fix­able by a novice knuck­le­head? Learn to live with a ran­dom dying pig noise?