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hi people im after some advice and scrap it just wont do! was driving along the motorway the other day when my stilo 5 door 1.2 (family man) started whistling very loudly so i slightly tapped the brakes and it stopped off with brakes it started again also stops with a slight nudge of the steering wheel this seems to happen after driving constantly for about 30 mins so i pulls over and the heat coming from behind the wheels was hot to say the least once they cool down all is ok any ideas are most welcome

ian

get the brakes checked,if you have a dragging/binding brake it could cause that. more likely dragging than binding but it will wear the pads/discs faster if it is

What reg is your car, sounds like the wheel bearing could be on its way out.

thanks for that custard,alex its on 52 plate 24444 miles

Somewhat belatedly my advice is to pop your car asap into say Kwikfit for example for a quick safety check at least. I would have thought that a wobbly wheelbearing or binding brakes would be evident to one of the techies there. I would certainly would not go on the motorway until you have it sorted.

Good luck.

thanks guys will let you know how i get on

i had a squealing (not a whistling) from mine which was intermitment. Took it to a mter who works at kwik-fit and he stripped the brakes down as they were binding on. He cleaned them up (as too much dirt and stuff was causing the problem) and it fixed it.
cmc

i have the same problem as you, took the car to ATS, brakes were checked and nothing found wrong. car was also srviced last week and still nothing found wrong!

yeah im wondering if there colud be a shortage of grease somwhere like in the wheel bearings? will check all these things out on my days off

ive checked the brakes and found on binding on rear thanks for the suugestions