HVA Tick

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JakeGT

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 Burton-On-Trent
So at the 100k mark I've developed the HVA tick. I'm guilty of short journeys as I only live 2 miles from work but always gave a good run out of the ticking appeared.

I've always ran 0w-30 Castrol Edge but would changing to a 5w-30 help?

Stumping out for a head change is not something I'd be willing to do, I'd rather live with the noise or sell the car 😥
 
Different grade may help, may not. It's not an issue I would worry about selling over. I occasionally get it and think your driving style on short journeys may make more difference than the oil grade, changing up early and keeping the revs low seems to make it happen more frequently.
I run 5w-30 so all I can suggest is to take it for a longer run every now and then.
 
Hi, as Steve says above ^^
Your 2 mile journey is doing the car no favours-it won't even be up to temperature in such a short run & wont burn any condensation from the engine oil. Try changing it more often :thumbsup:
Rob
 
Just to update I changed the oil but didn't make a difference so dropped a can of Wynns lifter treatment and surprisingly it's made the tick disappear for now :o
 
My coupe does it every now and then as I also only have a 5-10 minute drive to work. Slow town traffic, Never above 30/40 etc.

It seems inconsistent, Can spend all week doing short journeys to and from work and gym etc all week. No tick.

150 mile round trip in an evening and it will start the tick a couple of days later for no reason and sometimes just at random.

Is usually fairly quiet and in mines goes away very quickly, Usually 30sec after start up or so. Ive learnt just to ignore it now. No issues in the couple thousand miles ive owned it.

The worst I heard was a montego blue coupe I went to view. Sounded like a skeleton having a wank in a biscuit tin for 5 minutes then sounded smooth and no issues after that. Was still put off the car though. It was the coupe on 19's, im sure in stockton that was on sale for 6 months odd. must of sold by now.
 
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