click, clank click sounds when cooling down and more? leaking oil?
 

Hey,

I am sure this is me being paranoid but I wanted to verify with other toyobaru drivers that their car is doing the same thing.

I know that when you turn off your car its going to make some clicking, clanking noises while the oil settles and the engine begins to cool off. But, i swear to god that I have an entire orchestra of loud sounds! I can hear it from a good distance of my car.

In fact, yesterday I heard the sound of a clink...........clink...........clink ( a good 3-4 seconds in between) while in idle. I then turned it off and other types of clink, clank sounds started to make that orchestra I mentioned.

I should mention I have a Unichip tune.

I am thinking that maybe that first clink that occurs while the car is running may be that oil drip that some drivers get. Apparently, oil leaks onto the OP and burns causing an odor... maybe I am hearing that drip while it is at idle? I am going to check my oil to see if I have lost any.. that should be an indicator that something is wrong.

thanks

I think it is pretty normal. My car does this as well and my old car (2000 honda accord) also did this.

ditto. definitely noticeable in the garage. pretty sure its normal

It's most likely the cover over the cat cooling off. It's pretty common on a whole lotta cars. And the exhaust too.

If anything, you would be the only one who can find those sounds and/if oil leaks.

Cars totaled....Trade in and buy a civic right away.

Heat shields? ...Heat shields.

When the car is hot mine does it too when I turn it off in the garage..clang clang click click and so on. More than any other car I've had.

Seconded the cat/heatshield comments. On cooldown it makes a lot of popping due to the temperature change. On startup it also makes noise as the car runs like -15* timing, etc to heat up the cats and get the o2's up to working temperature.

That's just your cars way of expressing it's objection to being turned off!:mad0259:

Mine does this. Its just the metal around the exhaust cooling.

Just wait till you hear the purge system running on its own, sometimes hours after the car has been shut off. Even reading the manual and knowing that it does it doesn't help the first time you hear it. It's eerie...

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I'll give ya' $1200 cash for it, plus haul it off for you.

If you have the factory exhaust manifold, this is normal. The factory manifold is very long for a 4 cylinder (even long by modern car standards) and as such there's a lot of heat shield(ing) to expand and contract.

You won't hear this on other cars as much because their manifolds are a lot more compact compared in design to our cars.

Source: used to own a S13 240SX, with a factory manifold comparable in length (overall) to the FRS/BRZ. The car would take forever when cooling down for the noises to go away.

-alex

If oil is leaking onto the OP and burning him, he has real problems. Other than "original poster", WTH is the "OP"?

Over pipe?

Overly Paranoid?

Oil Pan? Most likely Over Pipe.