My car has a ticking noise that I am unsure what it is. It is NOT the normal injector tick and it isn't the throw out bearing on the clutch. It only happens in certain temperature ranges. Typically I notice it when the car is around the 1/4 mark on the temp gauge. A lot of times it is when I start the car after it has sat for an hour or so. Once the car warms up fully, the noise goes away.
The noise itself sounds kind of like a lifter tick. Kind of metallic and intermittant, not rythmic. I noticed it when the car was just a few weeks old (now 11k miles). My dad and I talked about it when the car was new and figured it was everything still breaking in and should go away once the car was fully broken in. With 11k, the car is broken in, but the noise still exists.
Any ideas? I am not too worried since it only does it for those few minutes when the car is partially warm. My old Saturn made a very simlar noise for the 50k miles I owned it, only it did all the time at idle once fully warmed. But if it is something more serious, I want to know before I start modding and get my warrenty voided.....
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2005 Silver SRT-4
Last edited by monkey_SRT : 03-04-2006 at 03:28 PM.
I have been there and done that. Two years ago my car was making that tapping sound around a 1/4 on the temp guage. After a ton of hassel with the dealers excuses for the noise (they were blaming the sound on a non-mopar oil filter I had put on, said it was causing irregular bleeding on the cam) they fixed the problem. They told me that the cam bearing caps were too tight and they replaced all of them. I was told that there was a recall on the problem but only if you bring the car in and complain about the sound. Best of luck with it, they had my car for 5 days and refused to give me a rental, but they did fix the problem and it has never come back.
Last edited by GreyGhost2 : 03-06-2006 at 03:03 PM.
I have been there and done that. Two years ago my car was making that tapping sound around a 1/4 on the temp guage. After a ton of hassel with the dealers excuses for the noise (they were blaming the sound on a non-mopar oil filter I had put on, said it was causing irregular bleeding on the cam) they fixed the problem. They told me that the cam bearing caps were too tight and they replaced all of them. I was told that there was a recall on the problem but only if you bring the car in and complain about the sound. Best of luck with it, they had my car for 5 days and refused to give me a rental, but they did fix the problem and it has never come back.
Yeah, that is what I am afraid of. I can see them blaming it on my K&N drop in and Mopar wires.
What is up with Dodge dealers and not giving rentals when a car is in for service? Saturn of Spokane blows chunks, but at least they gave me a rental everytime they broke the car and had to fix it.
The noise is just a noise. I have it, and have had it since day 2 of owning the car.
The lead mechanic at the local dealership said the TSB would fix my problem, but I would be better off not opening the head and tearing it down just to fix a little tick. I may come out with more problems than I went in.
I have access to all the TSB's, so if you need a copy, i can email it to you
thanks, but I found the TSB here in the forums.
I think I am just going to ignore it. The car only does it in a very specific heat range, and it is only in that range for 2 or 3 minutes. The dealership would probably play stupid anyway......
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Ticking noise when partially warmed *help pls*
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