Hello 2016 Kia Optima makes like a whistling noise when putting pressure on the gas pedal

Asked by Eddie015 Mar 24, 2019 at 02:32 PM about the 2016 Kia Optima SXL Turbo

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

So a few days ago just randomly it started making a whistling noise, everytime
you step on the pedal to speed up it will make the whistling noise if you release
slowly it doesnt make the noise.Yesterday I realized when the car speedometer
rpm goes from 2 to 3 thats when it makes the noise.

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GuruS4JHX answered 4 years ago

The same thing happen to me and I couldn’t figure out what was wrong, finally took it to a mechanic to see, they used something that they could tell exactly where the noise was coming from and it was my power of steering pump. They put a new one on there, and bam no more noise.

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Marie answered 4 years ago

hi what sort of noise was it ? I have a whirring noise coming from front end

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