Started getting this noise today, plus occasionally (pretty rare to be honest) getting a worse sound (like an old chatty diesel) when accelerating from a stop. I've already got an appointment with the dealer to hopefully get the ECM reprogram that fixes the known VVEL bank 2 noise issue. Can anybody who has had that issue confirm whether or not this noise is similar to what they got?

 

Yes, I had the same issue too, a visit to dealership will fix it for you. But it came back for some ppl months later.

 

Mine hasn't come back yet. It was fixed a year and a half ago I think

 

does it increase with rpms? or you hear tap tap tap while accelerating and goes way?

 

I use Redline ester and the ticking has stopped.

 

Do you need to be under warranty for the dealer to fix this free of charge?

 

Doesn't appear to increase with RPMs. I hear the tapping while accelerating for maybe the first 2-3 seconds and then it goes away, but it isn't heard in the video obviously. I can only seem to get it to happen if I drive the car enough to get everything up to equiplibrium temperatures, turn it off for a bit (5-10 minutes) start it up and go again. It's almost immediate whenever I do that (say stopping for gas on my way home from work). I have had a pretty rough idle lately too for some reason when sitting at a stop light.