Odd sound? or not an odd sound?

[landy]

With an engine flush, is it the same thing as the cans of engine flush you can buy at Motorworld ?

If so I will go down tomorrow and buy a load of cans to see if that will do the trick INSERT INTO post VALUES ( hope so )

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[calum]

Just my opinion - but I wouldn't use engine flush. Oil is in your engine for a reason. If your lash adjusters need cleaned remove them and clean them properly.

Running an engine without proper oil is like you trying to work without blood.

Calum

[Ailsa]

Originally posted by Brind
[B]Ailsa,
One of them has 'SS-R' written in the bottom left corner if that helps?
I can post the pictures if you want to see if you even took them?

That would be good! If it says SS-R it was us though... Thats our other club. David probably posted them up and then forgot!:shrug:

[Brind]

I've posted them in the pictures section.

[Brind]

landy,

I'm just guessing that is what they did.
I'd guess they would drain the oil and flush through thinner oil and then put in the proper stuff until the noise was gone.. what ever it was it has Definitely gone now.
It was quiet on startup before, it would start a few seconds after and then tick in cycles.

It was done by a Mitsubishi main dealer.

[haydar]

Originally posted by Brind
All done!!!

It's running perfectly, quiet as a dicky bird.
Don't know what they did, but I made some marks on the bolts around the head so I'd know if it was removed, but none of them have.
So I'll take a wild guess and say they have just flushed the engine through several times.

Whatever it was it's okay now.

Could you find out from the dealer what exactly they did to sort out this problem! I listened to the audio and it's exactly the same as my car. I've tried changing the oil several times but the noise is always there. I originally used Mobile 1 0W/40, I've recently switched to Mobile 1 15W/50, which for a few days left the engine quiet, but then the noise came back.

I'll try and find 10W/30 in a synthetic to see if that helps but I'm really interested in what the dealer did.


Regards

[BraindG]

you might find they flushed the engine several times with clean oil, thats what they did on mine.. drained car, filled it up, can it aroudn for a while, then repeated the process...

[Brind]

Hiya mate.
I'm pretty sure Barry is right.
No bolts or hoses were touched so the only thing they could do was to just flush the engine through several times and run it until the sound went.

It has gone now as I've ragged the arse off it a few times now and when I pull up it's quiet, very steady idle, doesn't skip a beat.

[haydar]

Who was the main dealer? Do you know what oil they used to flush the car and then what oil is in it right now?

As a precausion, you might want to start the car and let it idle for 20 minutes. I found that after a good thrash, the ticking noise goes away when you initially bring it back to idle. However, if you leave it running for a while it slowly starts to come back. After my last oil change I though I'd cured the problem since I didn't hear the ticking for about a week, but I'd left the car to idle for a while and it came back!

Hopefully this will not happen to yours but try it out while the car is under warranty.

[Brind]

Marshall Mitsubishi, find the thread I posted in the dealership section.

The car was drivin by one of their guys back up to Cambridge, an easy 130 miles away, and then drivin all the way back again, another 130 miles.

Started it up when I got home that night, she was very slightly still warm, and she was very quiet.
Started her up the next day from cold and no tick at all, not even from the first turn of the key, left it idleing for ages when it would normally start and nothing.

Drivin a couple of times on short journeys since and shes been quiet.

Drove to Japfest and back yeasterday, an easy 250 mile round trip, and I was doing 80, 90 all the way, stopped the car a few times and quiet.

Drove to London today, 250miles again, again 80 90 and absolutley nothing.


Very noisy before.
You can give them a ring and ask what they would do if you have that sound.
It is very common apparently.

And I'm keeping the warranty!!!!! :eek: I'm scared to death if anything goes wrong, this car sounds effing expensive!
Have a weird sound now coming from my front right wheel, and the AYC light stays on, it was fine until I came back from Japfest yesterday. :rolleyes:

[-LegnumVR4-]

Originally posted by Brind
And I'm keeping the warranty!!!!! :eek: I'm scared to death if anything goes wrong, this car sounds effing expensive!
Have a weird sound now coming from my front right wheel, and the AYC light stays on, it was fine until I came back from Japfest yesterday. :rolleyes:

If it's the red AYC light on the dash then that would mean you should get it looked at by Mitzy. It maybe just your AYC oil needs a bleed or the fluid level is low. Bleeding can only be done by the computer they hook up to the car.

[jaysback]

i wonder if they would be interested in putting a warranty on mine?
seeing as its an import and i didnt buy the car from them.
our local mitsi dealership has just got ralliart approval so might go and see them.

dont need the big bills to replace gearbox seals and stuff like that.

[haydar]

Originally posted by jaysback
i wonder if they would be interested in putting a warranty on mine?
seeing as its an import and i didnt buy the car from them.
our local mitsi dealership has just got ralliart approval so might go and see them.

dont need the big bills to replace gearbox seals and stuff like that.

Personally I wouldn't bother with an after sales warranty. I had mine for 2 years and they never paid for anything. Everything seemed to fall under wear and tear!

Regards

[Brind]

I took the car to a Mitsi dealer today and they used their fault finder and it came up with the AYC pump.
They reckon it could cost about £1500 which is covered by warranty! thank christ!

So that tells me to keep the warranty!!!!!!! even if the cost of another years warranty is about £500, I'll break something to pay for what I paid on the warranty!
Well maybe not.

Main dealers do accept imports now, so you could be lucky! but they asked me today if mine was an import which I said it wasn't and they said they have a GTO which is an import and mine had priority over it, even though the GTO came in first.