A few problems I have been having with my 2001 Monte Carlo SS, Quite Basic I Suppose, but just haven’t looked into them.


The Driver’s side window goes down fine, but when trying to put it up it is slow, and has gotten slower recently, is their a fuse or something to replace to fix this problem?[/ol]


My turn signals, they are very temperamental, sometimes they work sometimes they don’t, is this another fuse issue or a loose connection? It’s very weird I’ll just be driving or just turn on the car and they won’t work, 10 minutes later or when I start my car back up they will be working, one of the weirdest things I have ever seen.[/ol]


The Driver and Passenger climate control lights are out, is this a easy fix, buy the bulbs, and then take off the whole panel?[/ol]


The one big issue is normally only when I first start up the car after sitting for a while. Turning it feels like something is rubbing and then when I hit the gas and go straight there is like a whining noice. Very weird. After a while it goes away, but still making strong turns you can here the rubbing and whining type noice. Any one ever experience this?[/ol]

Many Thanks for any advice.

 

the window and climate control lights I have/had that problem.

open your window all the way, does it sound like it just fell to hard? Open it halfway, lift on the glass. Does it move a lot more than it should? I had just taken my door apart and noticed that a machine screw that holds the glass to the lever that moves the window up and down was somehow unscrewed and just sitting in my door. After I put that back in my window is perfect.

the climate control lights my driver's side one is shot, and my radio has 3 unlit buttons, I had heard they are not that easy to fix. nor are they a fuse.

 

As far as the steering:

Have you checked the power steering fluid level? About two years ago, mine was doing what you described (it's a 2001 LS). It was just low on fluid. Topped it back up that day, and haven't had any noise since.

-Riggs.

 

I'll have to top off the power steering fluid, it is just weird because its only after my car sits at night for a couple hour, I'll go out park my car, and when I drive home it makes the weird noices when turning and accelerating. Just really weird, any one else with this problem.

 

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