Mostly while negotiating in very crude camp ground roadways, we started to hear a new noise. This started before the incident I will be reporting in my third thread, so I do not attribute this noise to that incident. The noise seems to come from applying the brake when the car is already stopped or nearly stopped. Its a bit of a chirp, but it is a low-throated chirp. It think they come in twos, "chirp, chirp." Any ideas?
Our's is a 2008, so I doubt this is the same issue. It seems to be just as the foot comes off the break and the car is starting to move in either direction -- forward or backward. It is when one is not gassing at all, just creeping forward or backward.
Maybe just the brake grabbing? I occasionally have this and have always thought it harmless. Maybe braking in neutral to remove rust will help. Good luck!
I had the same thing happen to me in my 2009 several months ago after repeated moderate braking at high altitude. It was a chirp, but it sound electronic and it would occur when lightly depressing the brake pedal just as I would start to press down. I assume it was related to either altitude or heating.
