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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 08:25 AM
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Default Re: Ticking Sound?

Also MErcedes cars have a really loud check valve on the driver side fender, it clicks really fast and loud.

Originally Posted by maxcichon
Happy to hear!

2 things:
  1. The slight oil smell MIGHT be a leaking valve cover gasket. Search for threads on this forum.
  2. I have very good hearing and can hear the fuel injectors (high-pitched "tick", and many of them) when the car is cold. That noise diminishes by 75% when it warms up, at least in my car. I've isolated this sound using a stethoscope and mine is definitely NOT valve train clatter (lower-pitched "tacking"). It comes from the injectors.
Does this make any sense to others?
 
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