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This noise is driving me crazy. If any one else has had this noise and a fix let me know please!!! It seems to be engine load related- it ticks loud when your pulling a hill or load and goes away when cruising or slowing. It seems to be keeping time with the tach. It sounds like a tach cable or something but I believe my rig has an electronic tach? If I do have a tach cable I can't find it. I only see the speedo cable. Just want to see if there is some body out there with a fix. Maybe it might be engine noise traveling down a cable or wire as a vibration. Might just have to tear my dash down and take a drive.
snos fun, if it's happening when you have the cruise control on, it's most likely the go pedal vibrating and making the racket your hearing-mine does this and if I gently put a little pressure on the pedal with my foot during said hard pulls the noise disappears.
I have the ticking noise in the steering colum and it comes and goes loaded or not. I cant figure out why it does it some times and then it will stop for a few days. It does it alot on bumpy roads.
I have the ticking noise in the steering colum and it comes and goes loaded or not. I cant figure out why it does it some times and then it will stop for a few days. It does it alot on bumpy roads.
My Wifes 2k1. 5 is the same as Sky's. I just noticed it this weekend. It is very random that the blasted thing ticks. . but it sure is annoying. According to my wife, that ticking is happening more often since we had the Clock Spring recall done. . hhmmmmm could there be any relation??
I also have the ticking. There's no rhyme or reason as to when it occurs, and it hasn't bothered me enough to tear things apart yet. It almost seems to come from near the A/C vent to the left of the instruments. I'm anxious to see where that noise comes from and if someone else has solved the mystery.
You know just before my clock spring went "POP" it was really ticking bad. Then I got it fixed and it stopped for awhile, and now its slowly comming back again, hmm??
Does it sound like a metal on plastic ticking sound or more like a creaking sound? I had a sound like you all describe it turned out to be a bunch of barely loose dashboaed screws and only creaked when it got cold outside and the dash shrunk a little bit. Just a thought give it a try it can't hurt I also used this time to take off the clear speedo cover and dust behind it and wash the backside of the speedo/guage cover. good luck in you search for a answer to the squeek search.
Thought I'd bump this 5-year old thread to the top 'cause I have a similar problem on my '98 12-valve. It's a cheap plastic ticking sound that goes incessantly unless the road is dead-pan smooth. I'm driving along and "ti-ti-tick ti-tick tick tickety tick . . . tick-tick t-t-t-tick" all day long
I've torn my dash apart, fixed and ziptied countless loose wiring, secured floppy connectors, stuffed padding here and there, tightened every screw I can find, all to no avail. To date I've spent 5. 5 hours on it over the last few days. Tonight I tore the wipers and cowl off seeing if it's in there, but it's not. I can reproduce the tick if I rock the truck hard. I even got someone to rock the truck while I listened for it, but it seems to be in one of those humanly impossible places to reach in the dash.