Whistling Intrepid

Has anyone ever experienced this? During the first few minutes of driving,
my 2002 Intrepid emits a loud whistling sound from (I think) the engine. It
does this a few times, each for a duration of a few seconds. The sound goes
away once the engine has fully warmed up. It seems the number of times the
whistling occurs, and their duration, increase as the ambient temperature
drops. My guess is that it's either a vacuum hose leak or some diaphragm
trying to open/close, but it's hard to look under the hood while traveling
at 100 clicks... Any ideas?

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Do you have the automatic climate control? Try leaving it OFF or at
least manually de-selecting the A/C compressor. ACC runs the compressor
ANY time it can (any time the temperature in the air intake plenum above
freezing), but compressors often make wierd noises when the condensor
temperature is getting down near freezing. Things like a low freon
charge or low oil charge can aggravate it.


Might be totally unrelated.

 

i believe there is a tsb on this issue anyone else??

 

My 2001 Sebring LXi does the exact same thing. Dealer swears they don't
hear it and have never heard of such a problem.