R56 So let's talk about tickety tick and clackety clack
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So let's talk about tickety tick and clackety clack
I think the "diesel-ish" ticking of the injectors is pretty much standard on the R56 MCS. The "Clack" (or slight knock) seems to affect some cars on the day's first start.
Check your car out in the morning, pop the hood, and see if it "Clacks" as well as "Ticks" when you start it. It seems the timing chain (passenger) side of the motor is the "clacking" area, while the intake along the firewall is where the ticking takes place.
The worst-case videos on the mini2 forum is what got me to thinking about it (20 years of Army maintenance doesn't help either...); I'm not sure if it's timing chain slap, or even piston slap (google that last one)... but I'm wondering how widespread the issue is.
Thanks in advance, and mine has a minor clack first thing in the morning.
Check your car out in the morning, pop the hood, and see if it "Clacks" as well as "Ticks" when you start it. It seems the timing chain (passenger) side of the motor is the "clacking" area, while the intake along the firewall is where the ticking takes place.
The worst-case videos on the mini2 forum is what got me to thinking about it (20 years of Army maintenance doesn't help either...); I'm not sure if it's timing chain slap, or even piston slap (google that last one)... but I'm wondering how widespread the issue is.
Thanks in advance, and mine has a minor clack first thing in the morning.
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noise in the morning when its cold and you first start the car and then goes away or is reduced as the engine warms up is typically piston slap.
having driven a monster V8 for the last several years im completely use to it my cobra is known for piston slap on start up and for loud injectors (especially since they are upgraded).
my only complain about my r56 mini is while its idling and you get out of the car and walk around the think sounds like an old volkswagon just not as loud.
but rev it up and get that nice little whistle of the turbo lol.
from all the reading ive been doing it appears that most of the time all this ticking, clacking whatever fairly normal for our mini's
having driven a monster V8 for the last several years im completely use to it my cobra is known for piston slap on start up and for loud injectors (especially since they are upgraded).
my only complain about my r56 mini is while its idling and you get out of the car and walk around the think sounds like an old volkswagon just not as loud.
but rev it up and get that nice little whistle of the turbo lol.
from all the reading ive been doing it appears that most of the time all this ticking, clacking whatever fairly normal for our mini's
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noise in the morning when its cold and you first start the car and then goes away or is reduced as the engine warms up is typically piston slap.
Just to clarify though, there seem to be two distinct and separate sounds: The ticking of the injectors, and the unknown cold clacking. I do tend to think it is piston slap, especially when looking at the short skirted piston used. It's unusual for all the cylinders to slap though.
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The clack is not normal. Did you get yours looked at?
It seems that BMW's VANOS/Valvetronic system is notorious for noise (by default). I've seen it described as "marbles rattling in a box". Depending on the particular noise... it may in fact be "characteristic" of the new engine.
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