So I've had my01, 85k miles, for over 3 years now and have never heard this ticking before. I started it up this morning after a spirited drive last night it started making this very faint ticking sound (cold start) about 20 degrees outside but I let the car warm up for 5 minutes . The sound is only audible inside the car (not inside the engine bay). I couldn't hear the sound at all at idle but it became evident from 1 to 2k rpm. I couldn't hear it above 2k but this might just be because my exhaust is too loud. When I let the engine drop back down to idle I couldn't hear the sound anymore. I had a valve adjustment done and just sent the injectors out for cleaning about 2 weeks ago (have been trying to diagnose a dreaded misfire) and the car has been running great. Do you guys have any idea what this could be? Here is a video of the noise. Sorry for the bad video quality and I know its kind of hard to hear but if you play the video on laptop speakers or a cell phone the sound can be heard better because phones don't reproduce the low frequency sounds of the exhaust well.

Will post a video I took soon.

RVA_S2K

 

Heres the link to the youtube video. Hopefully this isn't something major. Im tired of dealing with issues with this car ...don't need to add another one on top.

http://youtu.be/jjYcY8IOF74


[media]http://youtu.be/jjYcY8IOF74[/media]

 

In your second video the noise doesn't change with revs, so I reckon it's not engine related just something ? rattling in the dashboard area

 

i'm guessing the infamous valve tick but years of ownership i'm too lazy to fix it (yeah i'm a bad owner)...