does that mean the drive belts need to be replaced?

 

If it happens once the car starts but immediate goes away then its nothing. Just cold starting that's it. My drive belts are brand new and it does that. It never comes back until the car sits for about more than 2 days

 

well my car tends to do it every morning? well actually its my mom's car that does that. i'll check if it just does that upon every startup. what would be the case if it was every startup?

 

This is a starter issue. The grease in the starter has hardened and it squeeks. It happened on mine and I replaced the starter and the noise went away. Do a search (I'm to lazy to find it myself) and there is a write up on how to take your starter apart and regrease it. (I think it's in one of the Sticky posts...)

 

www.motorvate.ca has the writeup on repacking starter grease.

 

tighten up the belts

 

dont think its the starter off the bat, if her car has an ajustable pully like our maximas then you need to try and tighten up the tensioner, i had the same problem and i changed my belts and still had the same problem. But then i thought about it and tighten the crap out of the tensioner and now it makes no noise

 

sorry this is kind of stupid..but which tensioner are you talkinga bout? and where is it?

 

its a 4th gen maxima right

 

that is correct

 

Its not nothing, its your belts. Take it to the mechanic and they will tighten the belts for you, after that you wont hear anything at startup.

 

^^^ Even if they are brand new, the tension is more than likely the cause.

 

The mice are hungary

 

But when you feed them and the engine gets warm you end up with cheese on everything!

 

If you feed them too much performance will suffer

 

That's been my problem then! I need to spray some cheese wiz in their and clean everything out (better than SeaFoam IMO). I'm also thinking about changing the wheel size to add more boost.

 

well i bet those belts are kinda old..that could be why

 

My car does this on all cold starts, usually just a quick chirp and then gone. If you do end up finding it is the belt tension. Remember not to over tighten this can be baaaaad!!!!

 

with all these belt threads that have been popping up, Nissan should just use an auto tensioner

 

Exactly, its the samething with mines. Its just a quick squeal on start up and thats it, its over and done I don't hear from it until the car has be sitting for 4 days at best.