Another strange noise..
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Another strange noise..
Well a few months back there was a strange whining when i started the car and it continued while i drove and accelerated. I ended up changing my tensioner and my idler pulley along with my belt and it went away but there was still a sound when i started the car. Its only for about a second and only on a cold start. it sounds like a ticking. It sounds like something is ticking while the belt makes it first full rotation. The weird thing is that it is only on a cold start. I took a quick video when i left work last night but its not that great, you can hear it though just not as loud . I would make another but my ecu is away being tuned so i cant start the car.
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It's probably a hydraulic lifter pumping up. If it was the good old purge valve it would do it all the time.
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Hmmm in my dads ford you can hear the lifter all the time. Is it a problem to only do it for 2 seconds and only on cold starts? Sometimes it's louder then others but you can always hear it
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No it's not a problem if it's for a very short period of time. You should try 2 short oil changes of maybe 3000 miles each. There might be some varnish build up on the lifter. Do you know the service history of the car?
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Not much I know it was serviced at an mb dealer idk the intervals though when I got it, it had the service indicator on the lcd saying like 5k miles so either it was recently service when I got it or they just reset that but I changed the oil anyway to be safe about a month ago. I used to use 5-30 on my w202 then I saw a lot of people here using 0-40 and unfortunately no one around sells 0-40 but I did get 10-40 and use that. It's very hot here so I wasn't too worried about the 10. When winter comes ill order some 0-40 though
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I hope you are using an approved oil whatever weight it is. 229.5 is what you want. In the USA your right Mobile one 0w-40 is the easiest to find heck every walmart I have been to up and down the east coast has it so I am surprised if TN doesn't. I do know that my store when it was out of stock of the 5 quart containers ordered them for free and I had them within a week. But whatever you do make sure you use an approved oil and the fleece filter *not paper crap. BTW the service interval on the c320's is 10,000 miles mine has very close to 200,000 miles with 10-14000 mile intervals and has been perfect.
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I hope you are using an approved oil whatever weight it is. 229.5 is what you want. In the USA your right Mobile one 0w-40 is the easiest to find heck every walmart I have been to up and down the east coast has it so I am surprised if TN doesn't. I do know that my store when it was out of stock of the 5 quart containers ordered them for free and I had them within a week. But whatever you do make sure you use an approved oil and the fleece filter *not paper crap. BTW the service interval on the c320's is 10,000 miles mine has very close to 200,000 miles with 10-14000 mile intervals and has been perfect.
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Wow I really didn't know that. But I'll do like you said and change it again soon. I'm planning on going on a decently long trip(750 miles) so ill change next month hat should put it at around 3000 miles. Anything else to check if its the lifter?
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No ~ if it's a ticking lifter it's either clean up improves it or you replace it.
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Ah alright. And I know lifters are an expensive job. I was thinking about flushing my coolant and getting it replaced so I might have them do an oil flush as well. If it is just build up, hat should take care of it
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