Our Honda Jazz has developed a strange intermittent high pitch squeal.
We first noticed it earlier this month when we were driving up the A9 between Perth and Inverness. The first time I heard it, it was not very loud, and I wasn't sure if it came from our car. It happened again a few minutes later, and as we progressed, it became louder, and it became clear that it was from our car. It wasn't (and isn't) a constant squealing - it always came and went. We pulled into a layby and stopped, had a look at the wheels, didn't see anything, so we got back in, started up, and drove all the way home without hearing anything.
A few days later, I took the car down in Inverness - round trip of about 100 miles, and heard nothing.
On Thursday, we drove down to Edinburgh and then to Ayrshire - a journey of about 300 miles. The noise reappeared before we got to Edinburgh, disappeared when we went into Edinburgh, and didn't reappear on the journey to Ayrshire.
Didn't reappear at all over the weekend when we were driving in Ayrshire.
Yesterday, drove back home from Ayrshire. Drove to Glasgow on M77, no problem. Noise reappeared on M8 driving to Edinburgh, but disappeared as we drove around Edinburgh. Reappeared after leaving Edinburgh driving on M90 to Perth, but disappeared when we were driving around rural roads in Perthshire. About 10 minutes after we got back on the A9 at Dunkeld and started heading north, it reappeared. After about 20 minutes, we pulled into a layby and turned off the engine for about 3 minutes. We restarted, and drove the rest of the way home, careful to keep car at under 55 miles an hour, and drove home - about 120 miles or 2 hours 30 minutes. In the first 20 minutes, there was a brief hint of the noise a couple of times, but after that, it was completely absent.
So - driving in town, or on country roads, there does not seem to be a problem. Keeping below 55 mph, there doesn't seem to be a problem. But if one does long drives and goes at 65 or 70 mph or more, the noise seems to come up. But stopping the car seems to make the problem go away - at least for a while.
It seems to come either from the near side front wheel or the engine area.
Any thoughts?
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