What's that clicking sound?
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What'* that clicking sound?
I've always had a noise in my car, and it'* very consistent so I though maybe it was normal. I'm just curious what it is, and want to make sure it'* not something faulty. It'* a clicking noise and it seems to be maybe from the front end, but I'm not sure. It happens when the car has been sitting for quite a while like in the morning and when I leave work. I've observed that it happens when I come to my third stop (seems odd), and I'm at a complete stop it will make like three clicks. Then I don't I don't hear it again.
Would it be something like the brakes self adjusting?
Would it be something like the brakes self adjusting?
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You have 4 calipers. No adjusters.
It'* probably your 4-phase variable turbothrusters re-synchronizing themselves with the kinetic-dingoactuator. You need to get a fulcrum analyzer on that thing ASAP to make sure it happens precisely 35 milliseconds after your third stop.
Gonna have to narrow it down, but it ain't brake adjusters.
It'* probably your 4-phase variable turbothrusters re-synchronizing themselves with the kinetic-dingoactuator. You need to get a fulcrum analyzer on that thing ASAP to make sure it happens precisely 35 milliseconds after your third stop.
Gonna have to narrow it down, but it ain't brake adjusters.
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I know there are four calipers, but I've never dealt with disk brakes so I'm not educated in how they work exactly.
It'* funny how it does it the third time I stop though. It'* a quiet sound, so unless I'm listening for it I don't always hear it. I'll have to refresh my memory today on how exactly it sounds, but it seems like it has a plastic sound to it, and it'* more of a tapping probably rather than a clicking.
It'* funny how it does it the third time I stop though. It'* a quiet sound, so unless I'm listening for it I don't always hear it. I'll have to refresh my memory today on how exactly it sounds, but it seems like it has a plastic sound to it, and it'* more of a tapping probably rather than a clicking.
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Originally Posted by willwren
You have 4 calipers. No adjusters.
It'* probably your 4-phase variable turbothrusters re-synchronizing themselves with the kinetic-dingoactuator. You need to get a fulcrum analyzer on that thing ASAP to make sure it happens precisely 35 milliseconds after your third stop.
Gonna have to narrow it down, but it ain't brake adjusters.
It'* probably your 4-phase variable turbothrusters re-synchronizing themselves with the kinetic-dingoactuator. You need to get a fulcrum analyzer on that thing ASAP to make sure it happens precisely 35 milliseconds after your third stop.
Gonna have to narrow it down, but it ain't brake adjusters.
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I'll have to check, but I don't think it'* anything like that. It doesn't make the sound until the car is stopped. It'* not like a random noise, it sounds like it'* something mechanical. I know what the self leveling sound is, so it'* not that, but could it be related?
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I believe I have heard this sound, but in my GF'* 04 GA. it does it three times rapidly and then nothing. I dont know what it could be either. I thought it might have to do with the fuel system on her car or a fuel valve cycling somewhere I dunno.......
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Is it more obvious on cold days? The vapor recovery purge solenoid purges the tank soon after startup. The solenoid clicks, and can be heard for some reason better when it'* cold.
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I don't think it'* any different in the cold. One other thing, is that when it does it I'm more than a mile from the house. I back out of the drive, go to the end of the street two houses down and stop, take a left and stop at a corner a block away, and then go close to a mile to a light and stop, tap tap tap. So I guess technically it'* the fourth stop if you count backing out of the driveway.
Is the purge selenoid under the hood? The way it sounds, I thought maybe it was something mounted on the firewall. It'* sort of similar to the tapping I hear from the regulator on my convertible, which is mounted on the firewall.
Is the purge selenoid under the hood? The way it sounds, I thought maybe it was something mounted on the firewall. It'* sort of similar to the tapping I hear from the regulator on my convertible, which is mounted on the firewall.
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Yep, both my car, and my friend'* 00 SSEis do the same thing. I was reading about the ABS system a while back, and that after some time the PCM runs a test on the system. It wasn't very descriptive, but that'* what I've chalked it up to.
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Hey yeah, I know what you're talking about.... I've heard the same thing on mine. Mine'* not very consistent. It only happens once in a while, and when I've been at a stop for a while (like at a long red light)... I never thought of it as a problem, I just figured it was something with the brakes...