Vibrating/tapping Noise Driving Me Nuts!

[lukee85]

Hi guys.

Recently I have noticed a vibrating/tapping noise comming from the left handside of my 2004 BA n/a right in front of the passenger side seat. The car has just had its 105,000km service and I told the guys at ford about the problem and looked at it and then told me that the "first steps" were to upload some new "patch" into the computer and go from there if it still made the noise after the service.

Now the bad news is it is still making the noise and I put my back out the next morning and havent been able to drive it really all that much for the last 2 weeks! When I could I got a mate to sit in the drivers seat and I gathered from me popping the hood and me listening outside and him changing between gears (its an auto) it makes noise in reverse and drive only and only at idle and the noise is much louder in reverse, but the strange thing is I couldnt hear any vibrating/tapping while I was on the outside of the car only wen I sat inside with my mate. So, hopefully im going back to work on monday if my back holds up and the ford customer service people are waiting on my call to have the car back to have another look but I thought id post this up (forgive the long winded write up!) and c if anyone has had this problem and if so wats the solution?

Thanks guys, I hope u know something I or ford dont!

Lukee85

[lukee85]

Well seeing as no one on the forum had any advice of opinions to offer to went along and spoke to ford, now the guy I deal with got a hold of the forman for the garage, popped my bonnet, reached into the engine and apparantly just "tightened a plug that can come loose sometimes" and I was off! yay!

Now as for this "flash" they preformed in my car as a way to "start the process of finding the noise" which I think is total crap because wen I asked the guy at the counter "wat the hell was in that flash cos theres deffinately a power loss issue" he said "yeah, we have to flash all the cars with that now cos of new emissions laws, u get 10% less power off the mark" and apparantly they've had plenty of angry customers wanting there 10% back which they can't do!

Anyway, needed to get that off my chest.

Lukee85

[Fat-Tony]

They are pulling your chain mate, once a vehicle is manufactured the emissions of that vehicle don't have to be updated to meet new stringent standards for newer cars. It only has to meet the emissions laws of the year that the car is produced, which don't change.