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Originally Posted by smorton
Alrighty, I have been able to eliminate the intermittent tick via some spirited driving. Confirmed the tick still present idling in my parking spot after commuting home from work, performed an 'italian tuneup' as people like to say here, and then immediately after in the same conditions the tick was gone. The tick hasn't returned after a normal commute to/from work since. Previously I had noticed it every day for several weeks getting at the end of each commute.
Spirited driving was performed at lower speeds < 70mph getting up to redline ~3-4 times, also noted that the oil temperature was a bit above 210F afterward.
Would be great if someone could reproduce this so we could finally end the ticksteria
Edit: the tick I am referring to is this variety
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The tick is back, I also did try adding Liqui Moly lifter additive which didn't seem to do anything.
I think the biggest clue is that the ticking stops when the wheel is turned nearly all the way to one side or the other. I'd suggest we should focus our collective brainstorming on why that would be! Any ideas?