<e34> High Pitched Noise - Help

["Bell Jr, James T" <jaybell@xxxxxxxx>]

Fellow Digesters:

I need your experience.

Lately, I have been experiencing an occasional very high pitched noise
(sometimes louder inside the car than outside, and sometimes vice versa)
from my 1990 535ia.  My initial thought was that it was a wheel bearing,
although I have been told that they very rarely go bad on e34's and have
actually had mine checked since the problem developed.  This noise seems to
come and go with no relation to anything else (temp., speed, accel., decel,
turn, straight).  In fact, the noise got even louder after I had my front
brakes done by the shop that inspected the front bearings, although it has
become more intermittent.

The shop where I took the car, diagnosed the problem as the A/C dryer, but I
think they are out of their minds.  I have not had the a/c on in months as
it has been quite cold here in Atlanta.

Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Jay Bell
#108407
jaybell@domain.elided
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