Whining noise when engine cold and stering wheel turned all the way to lock?
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Whining noise when engine cold and stering wheel turned all the way to lock?
Hello,
I have noticed a sort of whining/sawing hydraulic type noise (sorry for the bad description) when I turn the steering wheel all the way to one side with the engine cold, for example when I maneuver out of the garage in the morning after a cold start. When the engine is warm the noise is gone. What could this be? Is it normal or a minor/major problem? Thanks for your help!
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I have noticed a sort of whining/sawing hydraulic type noise (sorry for the bad description) when I turn the steering wheel all the way to one side with the engine cold, for example when I maneuver out of the garage in the morning after a cold start. When the engine is warm the noise is gone. What could this be? Is it normal or a minor/major problem? Thanks for your help!
Have a great week.
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Originally Posted by Frank Wiesmann
Hello,
I have noticed a sort of whining/sawing hydraulic type noise (sorry for the bad description) when I turn the steering wheel all the way to one side with the engine cold, for example when I maneuver out of the garage in the morning after a cold start. When the engine is warm the noise is gone. What could this be? Is it normal or a minor/major problem? Thanks for your help!
Have a great week.
I have noticed a sort of whining/sawing hydraulic type noise (sorry for the bad description) when I turn the steering wheel all the way to one side with the engine cold, for example when I maneuver out of the garage in the morning after a cold start. When the engine is warm the noise is gone. What could this be? Is it normal or a minor/major problem? Thanks for your help!
Have a great week.
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Originally Posted by kort677
don't turn the wheel all the way to end, you are putting too mcuh pressure on the power steering pump
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All PS systems have a high pressure bleed at full lock, and they make varying levels of sound. The colder PS fluid may increase the sound level through the pump. I don't think morning maneuvers will hurt anything, but there'd be almost no reason to keep the full lock there and hold it.
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Older cars with glazed belts will sometimes have the belt slip on the power steering pulley at full lock, producing a squealing sound. That could be temperature-related, if the belt is stiffer when it's cold. It's hard to imagine the serpentine belt on a W211 slipping like that, though. I counted seven pulleys that it passed over, but I may have missed one or two.
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Originally Posted by jim256
All PS systems have a high pressure bleed at full lock, and they make varying levels of sound. The colder PS fluid may increase the sound level through the pump. I don't think morning maneuvers will hurt anything, but there'd be almost no reason to keep the full lock there and hold it.
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I'd take it to the dealer to listen. I've had many that were audible inside the car but once I did have a Volvo with a high pressure leak, so the fluid level was low and it made much more noise. Have you checked the fluid level?
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Frank: Unfortunately I think the PS pump is underneath the engine cover, on the forward section of the engine, and probably easy to get to once you get the cover off--which is not always easy. That's where the pump was on my C320, anyway. On the Volvo which had low fluid, I had no drops in the garage, either--I was only losing it at high pressure in a very fine mist. It caught me by surprise when all at once the pump made a racket all the time.
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I had a similar noise, it appeared to be louder when engine was cold but never went away. The day I drove into the dealer for service, advisor immediately heard it and said it could be that the power steering fluid was too low. Ended up being that I needed a new AC compressor. So now I have a new one.
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Another possibility is what just happened to me. I was getting odd, straining sounds from the steering, which initially were most noticeable when the engine was cold but which got louder and more constant as time went on. I took the car in yesterday, and the diagnosis was that there was a slow leak in the rack and pinion steering. They have to replace the whole thing.
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That is called normal, at all times. It just wouldn't bother me. Hydrualics make squirm noise when fully loaded to stall condition. (Full-Lock turn = Full Loaded).
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Update on steering noise
I had the car in the shop today. The steering was noisy and harder when the engine was cold because a seal ring was leaking and thus, the steering was low on fluid. The service advisor told me there was a service bulletin (P-B-46.20/10) on this problem and so all sealing rings were replaced and the fluid was topped off. The fix took half a day and the car is running fine again.
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Originally Posted by Frank Wiesmann
I had the car in the shop today. The steering was noisy and harder when the engine was cold because a seal ring was leaking and thus, the steering was low on fluid. The service advisor told me there was a service bulletin (P-B-46.20/10) on this problem and so all sealing rings were replaced and the fluid was topped off. The fix took half a day and the car is running fine again.
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Originally Posted by Frank Wiesmann
I had the car in the shop today. The steering was noisy and harder when the engine was cold because a seal ring was leaking and thus, the steering was low on fluid. The service advisor told me there was a service bulletin (P-B-46.20/10) on this problem and so all sealing rings were replaced and the fluid was topped off. The fix took half a day and the car is running fine again.
Whining noise when turning wheel all the way to one side.
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