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weird ticking noise
Just got back from the New Forest for the weekend and when driver there and back there was a weird ticking noise coming from around the dash area. When I accelerated the ticking got faster, and when I took my foot off the throttle it slowed down. Any Ideas?
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Watch the speedo needle at very low speed ...you will see it 'stutters' the ticking is it hitting the small pin that stops it falling off the dial !!!
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Thanks for the replies. The ticking gets faster when I accelerate. Molly man it's not the needle hitting the pin coz it's still ticking when I'm traveling at 50mph. It could be the speedo, I'll have a look when I get home. 1664, I don't think it's a stone coz it does sound like it's coming from the dash instruments or just below. It kinda sounds like a relay click, if that helps at all
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Relays should be on the opposite side of the dash to speedo. The speedo cable can tick, broken strands within the cable can catch and make the noise, check the cable is installed with smooth curves, or try a squirt of oil down the cable,
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Re: weird ticking noise
el sketcho wrote:Just got back from the New Forest for the weekend and when driver there and back there was a weird ticking noise coming from around the dash area. When I accelerated the ticking got faster, and when I took my foot off the throttle it slowed down. Any Ideas?
Noisy speedo cable or leaf in heater fan.
Oil or fiddling for the former and a blast of full fan speed for latter.
Posibly
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exactly.....dug wrote:just disconnect the speedo and see if it stops