Weird Clicking Sound From Passenger Footwell

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ok, so the stagea has developed a very strange sound coming from the passenger footwell area, i think from one of the motors/devices which are visible if you put your head just under the glovebox. its a loud clicking/thudding sound, which sounds like its coming from an electric motor at a rate of about 60bpm (once per second). at first it made the sound in groups of 20, then stopped for a few seconds, but recently its been doing it constantly. it also starts and stops intermittently.

friggin weird problem, and i cant seem to affect it at all. i fiddled with the air con controls with no effect. and since i cant affect it i cant pinpoint exactly what it is, ahh please help me!

[madbung]

Most probably it's the actuator for the footwell air vent....something has either fallen off, broken or stripped it's gears.

[chef_stagea]

this has happened in one of my cars b4... drive me nuts for a few mins so i hit the side of the dash pretty hard n it went away :S im pretty sure if i remember rightly it was sumthing to do with the heater... if you turn it off it goes away... and as you increas the fan speed it it gets faster... :S no idea apart from that lol

[ステージア]

is it on the left where the flare is? the Fuel pump and EGI relays & the powertrain module are behind the kick panel...

[Terminal]

definately fresh air vent actuator, mine went when i bought my car. very easy to remove, then you just leave it open. i haven't bothered to fix it, it works for what i need it for now.

[yokotas13]

my air vent stuff works completely....

its over there by the ECU.

only happens when you start acceling?

mine does it allll the time.

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its just under the glovebox

its sounds like it may be one of the vent actuators, i just installed a stereo so i unplugged the climate control. im pretty sure all the plugs were put back in securely, but oh well i guess ill have to pull the whole damn thing out again....

is there some kind of reset for the system?

[NateR33]

My 33 does it i just turn the stereo up 'what noise???'