ticking noise from engine

gup160 · Post by **gup160** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:42 am

hi, my dad has a honda accord 2.0 se exsecutive, when stationary the car runs an sounds sweet as a nut, but on accelaration theres a ticking noise coming from the engine bay, an gets lounder the more he accelarates. any ideas on wat this cud be? any1 had any similar sounds coming from there prelude? cheers.

JayJay · Post by **JayJay** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:48 am

What about just revving the engine while stationary?

I can't think of what it could be, I'm sure some one here will

This is going to sound silly (and it getting louder doesn't make sense) but are you *sure* there's nothing stuck in the tyres and it's definitely coming from the engine bay?

gup160 · Post by **gup160** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:56 am

revining while stationary, nothing atall, its only wen in gear driving. its def coming from the engine bay. cud it be the cv joint?

JayJay · Post by **JayJay** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 11:02 am

Ah right. Well I've exhausted my troubleshooting

Anything I'd say would be a shot in the dark.

Most garages will check these things for free by the way, might be an idea? Audible problems are always hard to analyse on the net.

Post by **indigolemon** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:17 pm

Wonder if it's Premature Detonation - is it only when the car is under load.

Post by **vanzep** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 1:55 pm

indigolemon wrote:Wonder if it's Premature Detonation - is it only when the car is under load.

thats the same as pinking isnt it?

id start by cleaning/checking/replacing your spark plugs and see if it improves any

toyracer69 · Post by **toyracer69** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 3:53 pm

Is the noise rev dependant or speed dependant?

JayJay · Post by **JayJay** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 3:56 pm

Does anything change when braking or steering? (other than slowing down or driving in a different direction)

wchestnutt · Post by **wchestnutt** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 5:57 pm

A golf of mine did something like this, although it turned out to be the air con unit/pump/thing... Possibly a bearing went in it so whenever you were driving along it would start ticking quicker and louder until it sounded like a pneumatic drill under the bonnet!... turned the air con off and all was fine. Very odd.