Deej

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Hi guys. I've been lurking for the last few months trying to educate myself as much as possible on Imprezas before buying my first one.

I've got my heart set on a blobeye wagon and when this one came up for sale a couple of miles away I thought I would take a look:

http://www.dtmcars.co.uk/used-cars/s...01311119823876

Looked good in general but one concern I did have was a ticking sound coming from the nearside in front of the intercooler. To my untrained ears it sounded like a tappet type noise or maybe an injector. Dodgy spark plugs have come up as a suggestion in searches as well. The sound didn't go away as the engine came up to temperature and increased in frequency with revs.

I recorded the sound with my phone which can be downloaded/opened here:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...oice%20001.3ga

I should point out that the recording does make the ticking sound louder than in real life. Was fairly similar to these:




The car was standard apart from a cat-back stainless exhaust, panel filter and dump valve (straight on ebay if I do buy it!). Two of the previous owners happened to be at the garage when I was looking at it and I got the impression it would have been fairly well looked after with regular oil changes etc. I was told it had just had a change with 10W/40 semi synth put in.

I've just read through about 30 old threads on ticking noises so I apologise for the boring old question, but talk of bottom end knock and other serious problems has put the fear in me!

Hopefully the next thread I post will be something more interesting like mods and work on my new Impreza...


Cheers

Dave

daveyj

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Some of the background noise sounds like injectors to me.

daveyj

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Edit video titled after timing belt is hydraulic lifter noise. An oil change should see you right. If it persists though you either need to service the lifters or get a new set in there.