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Old 10-06-2007, 07:41 PM
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i know there is soppesed to be some sound, but this seems to be different then all my other cars i check. does anyone else makes any noise
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Is the noise inside the car or under the hood?
Does it do it once, or constantly?
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A metallic click on engage and disengage is normal
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its under the hood, for sure, but still has a ext warrenty, soo i might just take it in. i heard gunning it big time on starts with it on is bad , and im not sure if i did that
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mine was making noise while the A/C was on only...it did it for months and my A/C worked fine, so I didn't bother taking it in. Finally the A/C went out and they said the compressor had broke...something about it couldn't keep the pressure up on one side vs the other??? I can't remember, its been a few years...but I had to replace it and it has worked fine since...bad news...it cost ~1G to fix
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Sounds like a compressor to me also. Same thing happened to me last week on my Caprice. Shop said it was the compressor.




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