engine making clicking sound
 

My Ti is making a clicking sound, It sounds as though its coming from around the intake manifold. I put my ear up to the valve cover and listened for a while and have ruled out it being the valves that are clicking, or anything else from inside the engine. anyone have any ideas? :confused:

Eh, without hearing it myself, all I can say is check the simple stuff...like the oil in particular. It's probably common to have a small tick or click. As long as its not too serious.

when does it happen? car cold/hot, etc ...

IT happens all the time, its not that loud, i can only really hear it clearly when i have the hood open, i just changed the oil on saturday so i dont think it has to do with that. For some reason i think bimmerboi is right and its just part of the car, just thought i would check tho incase someone else has had this and its something more serious. Thanks for the advice

Is it a clicking fast? The idle air control valve clicks constantly. Start you engine, then shut it off, but only click the key back one position to shut the engine off (don't spin the key back all the way, like you'd do to remove it). Then quickly go up to the engine and it should be clicking away like crazy. Is that the sound?

Yes the clicking is fairly quick, I will take ur advice and check that out. Unfortunatley i am at work right now so i will try it out afterwards and then let u know.

Fuel injectors tick when they go bad or need a good cleaning. Take a screwdriver and put the blade on each injector, now put the handle on your ear. You should be able to narrow down *exactly* where the tick is coming from. If it's not your injectors, start checking other places, eventually you will be able to narrow it down.

Run some Z-Max fuel treatment with a tank of gas. That silenced my injector tick.

It is the injectors that are making the ticking noise. I will try adding some of that z max u mentioned and see how that works