This is the 3rd time I've noticed a clicking sound from the main fuse box (next to the battery). The sound is a steady CLICK sound every second and if you put your finger on the lid you can actually feel a pulse. The last time I heard the clicking sound I just unplugged the battery ground wire and it want away.

Here's what happens:

Put key in the ignition and turn it all the way, do not push the start button
Click comes on and stays on until I turn the key back to the off position

If I start the engine with the , the clicking sound comes on and stays on even with the engine running

However, if I remote start the car the clicking is not there anymore (so basically the key has to be turned to the ON position).

I have a video here with the key in the on position:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3BchfnNabwo

This is the fuse I remove to get rid of the sound but comes back on once I put it back in:


Is there a problem OR is this normal????

 

I cant help you but it is not normal sorry

 

The car starts OK?

Low battery volts can cause a relay to click on/off. The fuse doesn't have any moving parts, but the relay next to it does.

Otherwise the vid has execptionally loud clicking. Check the battery just to be certain, then swap the relay with another in the fuse box. If the clicking stays with the relay, it's a bad relay.

 

car starts fine and i just got a new battery a few months ago. which ones are the relays? the 3 black one's above the green 40 fuse? i removed all 3 of those and the noise didn't stop.

now that we know its not normal, can it cause any other problems other than a messed up relay?

 

The 3 small black boxes in a row, and the large black box to the left of the others are all relays. You don't have any other relays installed for your alarm under the fuse box do you?

 

i dont have any in that area, but i know there are several near the gas pedal (i have remote start, lights in my trunk that are controlled with the remote, soft top down, and trunk pop). you think my alarm can be causing this? it only has happened maybe 3 times in the past year.

not sure if this will help, but when its on my fan also is blowing.

key in the on position=clicking noise and fan on. key off, both are off.

going see if it does it in the morning when the car is cool....

 

You should be able to place your finger on top of each relay and actually feel it click. Then just replace that relay with another as Slows2k said, and see if it continues or if it was just a bad relay.

 

sounds easy enough but there's one minor problem.

went back out to see if its still clicking and the clicking has gone away along with the fan. guess the car cool down enough... gonna wait to see when it comes back on i will try to figure out which relay it is.

so i can basically swap the relay for any other one to see if its fixable? or do we actually have spare relays in that fuse box?

 

That's the fuse for the ignition, but when you remove it, which relay is it that quits ticking?

 

not sure which one stops clicking because everything goes dead (radio gets reset...) i did however pull all the 3 relays above the green fuse and the wire going to the brown box but clicking didn't stop. didn't try to pull relay on the upper left corner or the 3 other 3 on the left, so will try that next time.

any ideas xviper and what may be the cause??? seems somehow connected to the fan on the driver side because everytime I got that clicking I also got the fan spinning...