Dear everyone,

This is that squeeking noise I mentioned the other day. It is particularly well audible in the last 5 secs, after the loud click (I put smg down) at the 13th second.

My mechanic will take a better look at it on Thursday.

This is a 2003 3.0 V6, the sound is coming from the right rear side, somewhere close to the door, when driving on a bumby road with low speed. I cannot hear it over 80 kmph (50mph). The shock absorbers are brand new (the noise was there before replacing them), every joint in the suspension was treated with WD40, the right rear door was dissambled and every bolt and screw was tightened. He also checked and tightened the exhaust pipe connections. Unfortunately it is not really audible when the car stands. If I push the rear corner, sometimes it is there, often not.

Is anybody familiar with this sound so that we can start looking at that thing on Thursday?

Any help would be appreatiated.

 

How are the rear lower control arms? Are the tops of your rear tires canted in towards the center of the car?

 

Alfadude: many thanks for your reply.
As far as I know they were checked and are OK. I will have that confirmed on Thursday.
The wheels are standing straight, not leaning to any direction.

 

I'm with Alpha, rear front lower control arms

 

Dell Gailey: thank you too.
We will check them on Thursday. I will return to you with the result.

 

Alfadude & Dell Gailey
This is #4 you are talking about, right? Just because #9 has a very similar name :s Sorry for the noob question.

 

#9 = Just heed that if/when you replace them, do not torque fully until the car is sitting with full vehicle weight on the ground.

 

Gotcha.
Thank you!

 

I promised to be back with the SOLUTION.

After a long summer break, my mechanic was finally ready to wellcome us this morning to remowe that squeeking sound.
Previously I wrote: "If I push the rear corner, sometimes it is there, often not."

Today we realized that it is audible if the hand brake is released. No matter how much we push it, the noise is not there if the handbrake is ON while it is pretty easy to make it audible if the handbrake is released.

After figuring that out, he looked under the car with the handbrake released, I started pushing the rear end again, and finally he found the culprit:

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The brake pipe, which is loose in its suspension, and rubs against it.

We just wrapped some textile isolation tape around it for an easy fix.

Thanks for all the suggestions and ideas, we chacked everything, it is good to know about them.