normal clicking.

possibilty
1) intake shutting down - ie the butterfly.
2) injectors shutting down
3) electrical stuff shutting down

Otherwise, you guys are too paranoid. chalk it up to inexperience not driving a lot of other cars.

 

mine makes same sound. i would agree with abs check.

 

Great, it's was just loud, kinda shocked me..I'm used to domestics....it was a 1988 Corsica first, then a 1987 Firebird, THEN a moneypile 1995 Trans Am (ahh!) and now this.

 

Mine does it too. I really wouldn't worry about it. If it clicked continuously while the car was running, then I would worry.

 

mine does it too. Sounds like something calibrating. No worries.

 

i got clicking noises the first time in the morning.. then it goes away

-joe

 

It's quite certainly electrical systems charging up / calibrating / running diagnostics.


With something a bit more technogically advanced , like a car with MIVEC, ABS, EBD and then some, systems might have to be innitialized and/or calibrated and/or reset before use. Clicking sounds might come from relays and such internal electronics.


In a nutshell, this car is not your average '83 Camaro...


NOTE: the ABS calibration noise that might be heard from the back is probably the hydraulics part of the process... but the electronics box and servos might also calibrate themself before startup.

 

Asked the dealer while getting oil changed...all normal.

 

OK, I waited long enough. I wanted to see if there would be any interesting explainations. Some of them can be funny. That's the fuel pump making sure there is gas for the engine to burn upon ignition.

 

hey, really? That's a cool explanation, I must admit...

 

On every car, when you first turn the key but don't crank the engine, you will hear a hum, a click, or something. Thats the pump getting gas to the engine. Engines need gas to run. There may be other noises too, but that is always one of them.

 

Makes good sense...


Hey, wait a minute! Was my explanation one of the funny ones you waited for?!?

 

Yeah it happens to mine as well. But only once in a great while. It's only happened a few times.

 

Time for a TSB
Increase the sound deadening material!

:P

 

Mmmmm... More stuff that burns when your engine will inevitably catch on fire.