High pitched sound from the front when I turn on the car and disappears upon driving. I just had the powersteering pully replaced. Help! I have a 2005 Kia Amanti.

start in the engine bay
look from air filter to throttle body for any air intake leaks

if it is supercharged listen to the supercharger bearings

then anything spinning at high rpm from the serp belt
could be a bearing water pump or idler pully

if internal only could be something caught in the air vents

Front crank shafts seal is leaking or powerstering pump shafts seal leaking

I had the same thing and it turned out to be a bad Idler pully which eventually went bad and tore up the belt. note one bolt on the idler has to be reached from underneath the car.

sounds like you need to replace the idler pully and maybe the tens. pully. and that will solve your sounds problem. whats happening is the bearings are bad and thats what you hear

sounds like powersteering pump,or rack and pinion,check fluid level

That means the fanbelt on the alternator is not tight enough or needs to be changed, if the belt on powersteering goes via A/C than it might be too tight on the powersteering pulley.

look for the free wheeling pully on the front of the engine that not connected to anything like your a/c pump or alternator,powerstering pump, etc.

Could be several things. WHICH ENGINE?.. 4 cylinder (has three belts, power steering/water pump, alternator & A/C compressor, one tensioner pully A/C compressor), The V6 2.7 (has only one belt, 1 Idler pully and 1 tensioner pully), the V6 3.5 has two belts - A/C/alternator, and power steering - there are two tensioner pullys). Noises can be caused by the belt(s) themselves, pullys, bearings, pully bearings, water pump shaft bearings (or belts/pullys rubbing up against something). Let's not forget that there is also belt(s) behind the Timing Belt cover as well as pullys and bearings associated with the timing system. You could start by removing one accy drive belt at a time (alternator, water pump, compressor, power steering, etc) to see whether or not the noise goes away in each case. If after each case, you discover the noise is still there, it's probably behind the timing belt cover (idler/tensioner pully, water pump shaft bearing, crankshaft bearing, etc.). Good Luck

hat u need to do is drive vehicle until you hear this pitch once you hear it turn steering to the right to see if whine disappears if it does you are looking at replacing wheel bearing.

does the noise and light occour at the same time ? another cause of a high pitched noise can be slipping drive belts, alternator,powersteering etc so check them for tightness, condition etc, does the noise happen when car staionary and just rev the engine ? if so i would say it is the drive belt/s, go back to the VW dealer re the ABS light and get them to check the OBD as should be done as part of the service , hope this helps