Hi all,

I have started getting this slight tapping noise on start up, I dont know if it would be a tappet or what? But when the car is warm it goes.

I am having my car serviced saturday, so hoping a oil change might help!

any ideas would be great just dont tell me I must sell my other baby!

 

What year car is it?
It could be just piston slap

 

It's common with forged pistons apparently

 

2002 wrx. So nothing to worry about?

 

my bug makes a slight tapping sound for a couple of mins after a cold start.been like this since a bought it 10k miles ago.
some say a thicker oil helps dampen the sound a bit.
i believe its common on alot of scoobies and nothing to be concerned about.

 

My V5 type R is the same...sounds a bit tappety on cold start up.

 

Try a hydraulic tappets restorer cost about £5 this might help but i had the same problem and it was a big end cost £2500 for new engine plus fitting

 

Thanks all, will see how it goes

 

mine does this if left to stand for a few days.

 

Yeah. I did not did about that actually as I only use mine as predominatly a weekend car and the shopping during the week, thanks