For a week now I've had a metallictapping sound on the top half of the engine.... I was 99% sure it was the hyd tappets after doing a search on here (quite a lot of threads on tapping noises)

I flushed the engine(Forte) changed the oil ..... still a tapping sound at around 2,000 rpm - 3,000 rpm not on tick over... or when giving her full throttle, Put in some Wynes oil treatment tappet stuff.

Now this morning I filled her up and went for a bit of a drive......:hyper: and the tapping has seemed to have stopped....... Could it have been the last load of petrol was "shite" and it was a "Pinking" noise:headvswal

what fuel did you have in it before? And what do you have in it now?

 

Metalic Pinking noise sounds like det to me!

you didnt put '95 in by mistake last time did you?

I've got a uk TT....... it says to put in 95 by my petrol cap!!!:nelson:

 

I used to put 99 in my Subaru but that was a jap import.

Did it do it when you rev the car at standstill, or only when driving ?

Did it do it when you rev the car at standstill, or only when driving ?

You could still hear it when at a standstill only over 2,000 rpm..... but was much more noticable when the car was driving ..... more so when going up hill or underload.