tappety

With the cold mornings here, I normally let my car run for 5 to 10 mins in the morning before driving. I've noticed my engine sounds a bit tappety (not sure if this is normal on these cars). Engine oil level is fine and I regularly check it. Any ideas? Thanks

Hi everyone, recently we had an oil change to our car and our mechanic friend noticed a build up of sludge at the oil filler cap and he recommended we do an engine flush, so we left the car with him and he done the flush and oil and filter change. Picked the car up and off we went. The next...

Car's fairly new to me, done about 3k miles in her, ( she's done 37K) I have a noise, a ticking tappety one, you can hear with the window open when you pull away and the engine is warm, ( doesn't do it when it's stone cold, needs the temp up to 50 degrees before it starts). This only occurs when...

Hi All My W126 is a bit tappety especially when cold just wondering if you can adjust the tappets. Mine is the 280 SE which I believe is much the same as the W123 280. It's just I was asking a mechanic and he reckoned the tappets may be hydraulic and therefore non adjustable. Does anyone...

hello. since having a new engine loom put on my clk 230 the engine noise has become a lot more tappety. i think the exhaust is blowing as well slightly from somewhere. the engine loom thing might just be a coinciedence because i have only noticed it really since the weather has got better and...