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ok heres the story

yesterday i started my car and on idle it started making this ticking noise.

The noise was loud enough to bring my parents out to enquire.

i've done some searching thru the forums and all i can come up with is tappets or injectors.

heres the thing would it just happen one day?

the noise is related to revs.

and sounds like the car was just cold but is like 10 times louder than normal, and stays around when warm.

any ideas?

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ok, well i checked the oil yesterday and today, both times it looks fine.

oil gauge is normal.

i might take it to a mechanic today and see what they say.

the weird thing is once you get to a rev range say 4000, and just ignore the sound it goes away slightly. dunno if that makes sense.

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siksII, two points for you, i didn't drive it for 3 days :). I feel rather stupid, i took it for a nice drive, gave it a bit now she sounds nice. No more noise etc.

I didn't think that leaving the car for a couple of days could do something like that, oh well, now i know.

thanks for the swift replies everyone.

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lol *yay*

its scary how noisy it can get sometimes.. i normally dont drive the car for at least 3-4 days at a time, and i dont find it noisy, so i must be used to it!

but once, after doing some work to the car over 3 weeks, we turned it on and it was SO loud, i was scared it would not go away...

a good drive made the noises dissapear within an hour :)

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