Funny metallic click noise
Thread Starter
Evolving Member
iTrader: (4)
Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 158
Likes: 0
From: The empire state
Funny metallic click noise
Hey guys, I think this may be something you all hear, but I have never heard it so I'd like your thoughts.
I'll first say im not concerned with the noise just wondering what it is because I have never heard it before. Car drives fine.
Under load(in all gears) at maybe 2800 and above rpm @ 1/3 or more throttle- as soon as I let off theres a click. And its not letting all the way off(I was thinking TB shut) but only when I back off the throttle. It sounds like its under the dash though maybe not and it sounds just slightly metallic. Quieter but somewhat similar to when the fan turns on(but this is different location) or similar to when you turn on your rear defroster but again quieter and different location
Never happens in neutral or with the clutch depressed.
Ideas? The first time I heard it was today and its pretty cold here.
I'll first say im not concerned with the noise just wondering what it is because I have never heard it before. Car drives fine.
Under load(in all gears) at maybe 2800 and above rpm @ 1/3 or more throttle- as soon as I let off theres a click. And its not letting all the way off(I was thinking TB shut) but only when I back off the throttle. It sounds like its under the dash though maybe not and it sounds just slightly metallic. Quieter but somewhat similar to when the fan turns on(but this is different location) or similar to when you turn on your rear defroster but again quieter and different location
Never happens in neutral or with the clutch depressed.
Ideas? The first time I heard it was today and its pretty cold here.
Last edited by getcha; Jan 28, 2009 at 10:53 PM.
Thread Starter
Evolving Member
iTrader: (4)
Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 158
Likes: 0
From: The empire state
Its definitely not clutch chatter and nothing is loose, im positive
It sounds like it has something to do with approaching a certain boost level. At first I thought it was just my TB closing
Its like a 'tink', really light, some where central dash maybe.
It sounds like it has something to do with approaching a certain boost level. At first I thought it was just my TB closing
Its like a 'tink', really light, some where central dash maybe.
Thread Starter
Evolving Member
iTrader: (4)
Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 158
Likes: 0
From: The empire state
I would feel like an idiot if that was my case 
But it sounds like its behind the factory 3 gauge panel- like deep in the console
And again its only after I get to/over 2800ish RPM under load and then back off the throttle.
One single quiet "tick or tink" sound

But it sounds like its behind the factory 3 gauge panel- like deep in the console
And again its only after I get to/over 2800ish RPM under load and then back off the throttle.
One single quiet "tick or tink" sound



