{"id":32165,"date":"2016-07-20T10:19:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T15:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=32165"},"modified":"2016-07-20T10:19:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T15:19:51","slug":"1990-mercedes-300e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/07\/1990-mercedes-300e","title":{"rendered":"1990 Mercedes 300E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35375\" src=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1990-mecedes-300e.jpg\" alt=\"1990 Mecedes 300E\" width=\"478\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1990-mecedes-300e.jpg 478w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1990-mecedes-300e-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/>Loud squeal at cold start up in the morning getting worse.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>RESPONSE<\/p>\n<p>The most common cause for this would be from the <a href=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/serpentine-belt-routing-diagrams.html\">Serpentine Belt<\/a>. The belt is worn, loose or been exposed to anti-freeze. If the belt is worn, replace it. If the belts are loose, tighten them. If the belt has been exposed to anti-freeze, it is safe to drive but the noise will not go away permanently unless you replace it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loud squeal at cold start up in the morning getting worse. RESPONSE The most common cause for this would be from the Serpentine Belt. The belt is worn, loose or been exposed to anti-freeze. If the belt is worn, replace it. If the belts are loose, tighten them. If the belt has been exposed to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/07\/1990-mercedes-300e\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1990 Mercedes 300E<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,1],"tags":[10753,335,9498],"class_list":["post-32165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mercedes-benz","category-auto-repair-questions","tag-300e","tag-serpentine-belt","tag-squealing-noise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}