I’ve had my Toyota Starlet GLS ‘98 automatic for 16 years and she’s been an absolute trouper!
However, just out of the blue she started making a noise, what I originally described as sounding like a spoken dokey on a bike (remember those days!). Anyway in she went to my local mechanic, it’s been a month now and he just can’t figure out what/where the noise is coming from, he’s a pretty cautious mechanic and is reluctant to ‘throw parts’ at an ‘old car’.
So far he has:
checked and greased the cv boots
cleaned off the brakes and checked everything to