New chirping sound

[DebbyM46227]

It didn't make any noise today. I went to CarX for my oil change, asked them to check the water pump and serpentine belt, nothing wrong with those. The CarX service manager told me there was an older Corolla in earlier this week with a bad throwout bearing and it went away when the clutch was pushed in.

I spent all day at a pre-employment drug test lab so I had no spare time to go to Toyota. I'm dropping it off Monday. I wonder if they'll say I have to bring it in when it's making the sound. Kind of hard to do when I will have a new job I have to go to.

[Astroman]

This was posted in the wrong section of the forum, moved it to the correct one.

[bronsin]

Originally Posted by DebbyM46227

It didn't make any noise today. I went to CarX for my oil change, asked them to check the water pump and serpentine belt, nothing wrong with those. The CarX service manager told me there was an older Corolla in earlier this week with a bad throwout bearing and it went away when the clutch was pushed in.

I spent all day at a pre-employment drug test lab so I had no spare time to go to Toyota. I'm dropping it off Monday. I wonder if they'll say I have to bring it in when it's making the sound. Kind of hard to do when I will have a new job I have to go to.

When its not making any noise try this. Just sitting in the car with the engine running pump the clutch pedal in and out and try to make the noise. Pump it ten times and listen, then ten more and listen, and so on until you get to 100. IF you can make it make the noise when there isn't any noise, that's a good thing to do with the service manager sitting in the car with you.

Another thing you can do is put the car in 1st and let the clutch out just a little so you feel engagement. Repeat this 25 times and see if it makes the noise.

If theres no noise and this process makes the noise happen, that's a powerful argument to make to the service manager the throw-out bearing is the problem.

I hate to say this but its not in their interest to do lots of work and then find out that wasn't the problem. If you can demonstrate the bearing is the problem they should agree to fix it.

I say "I hate to say it" because of you pay a dealer $1000 to fix a problem and that doesn't fix it, for some strange reason you don't get your money back. Then they stick you for another $1000 and so on and so on!