Originally Posted by
PityOnU
With the cold weather starting to settle in, on particularly brisk mornings my car has started to squeak for a few seconds until it warms up a little bit. My guess is that this is from the serpentine belt slipping ever so slightly while the engine is cold, which then quickly stops once the engine begins to heat and expands, reducing the slack back to normal.
I had a quick look a while ago and seem to remember finding that our cars do no have an automatic (i.e. spring loaded) belt tensioner, but a manual one. I'm too lazy to go and manually tighten the tensioner for what is essentially a non-issue <10 seconds after starting the car, but I would absolutely be down to install an automatic belt tensioner (if such a thing existed and isn't already in place) so that I never have to worry about this ever again.
Can any of our learned forum members comment on this?
In over 6 years of ownership and almost 120,000 miles I've tightened the belt ONCE right about 100,000 miles. It took less than a minute. It actually took longer to show my son how to tighten the belt then it did to actually tighten the belt. It didn't really need it but it was a opportunity to do a little easy peasy maintenance training for my son.
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