does anyone know what the ticking noise (sounds like a clock ticking) is coming from inside the car.
was really bad 2 weeks ago with the really cold weather
not sure where the noise is coming from but you can also hear it from outside the car when the pre heater is on .
when you turn the pre heater off or unlock the doors it goes away
stratstone milton keynes have heard it but say they have never heard this before and are looking into it (that was 2 weeks ago)

nobody knows ian.... ......but these might help


http://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/topic552.ht...king+noise
http://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/topic3605.h...king+noise
http://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/topic1972.h...king+noise ... - .- -.




Y. O. L. O.
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Do you have a diesel (helps to know... )? If so, you're pre-heater will be running as a supplementary heater (FBH) when the motor is running too. The fuel pump for the FBH ticks - although it's more rapid than a once-a-second clock tick. That would be the only connection I can make between the pre-heater and the running motor. Generally the pump is isolated in a rubber mount and you can't hear it - but yours may have shifted. Have you had any work done to the fuel tank (new pump, new sender, etc)? 
RRC 2Dr, RRC 4Dr,
P38, and 2 L322s
(wife thinks I'm nuts - prob right, too)

he does have a diesel steve, hover mouse over little car in avatar area and all will be revealed... ... - .- -.




Y. O. L. O.
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ahhh haha  
RRC 2Dr, RRC 4Dr,
P38, and 2 L322s
(wife thinks I'm nuts - prob right, too)

Mine does this too. I assumed it was the pump for the webasto?
iancollins may i say, what a great username?
Rgds Ian  Ian

Mine does the 1 second tick too while the FBH works and I have a wooing noise while it's on too...

The mini jet engine sound is normal (RR owners are supposed to be so used to that from their Lear jets that they don't notice it ). The ticking is not. Should not be there. I hear nothing from my pump. And, unfortunately, my Lear has been reposessed...  
RRC 2Dr, RRC 4Dr,
P38, and 2 L322s
(wife thinks I'm nuts - prob right, too)

Actually the ticking only lasts 10-15 seconds at the beginning. It did this from the first day I had it.

Mine doesnt do this 

dan_uk_1984 wrote:

Mine doesnt do this

No, they are still the same. The pump actually meters the amount of fuel, and by varying the frequency, the mixture can be changed (petrol and diesel actually share most components - the ecu has a different frequency for pumping one vs. the other).

Adara, you are prob only able to hear the pump until combustion noise drowns the ticking out. If it wouldn't continue ticking, your fbh would not continue running... 
RRC 2Dr, RRC 4Dr,
P38, and 2 L322s
(wife thinks I'm nuts - prob right, too)

mine does this, like the ticking of a clock! also when first moving sounds like a fan struggling to work properly??? No body told me there would be days like these

L Reg dark purple/burgundy sort of Disco
R Reg very red disco
Bright Silver disco TD5
Sort of bright girly powder blue disco TD5
Gone (a while back) 1999 P38 4ltre Autobiography. 13 miles to the gallon, 10,000 miles to the engine
Gone MY06 RRS HSE Rimini Red
Gone MY10 RRS HSE Purple
Gone 2007 TDV8 Vogue OF Stornoway Grey (In Love again)
2011 4.4 TDV8 Vogue Baltic Blue
MY66 VOGUE TDV6 3.0 Red

mine ticks all the time its on until the engine is up to normal temp.
When i first heard it sounded like it was coming from under the f/n/s seat...

Sportex, both the TDv6 RRS and the TD6 FFRR I had did that fan running bit for the first 1/4 mile or so, I was told it was something to do with the gearbox oil cooling or the Viscuous Coupling cooling sensor - nothing to worry about. Neither the RRS TDv8 nor my current TDV8FFRR do it though. 2018 Mini Countryman Cooper S E All4 PHEV in Melting Silver - it’s whisper quiet in EV and polluter modes