[roddy]

Tick, click, rattle, clatter...I accept that as normal for a HPFP. Diesels have been doing it for years. It's just the nature of the beast. I can live with that. The squeak/crickets, on the other hand, not normal, and extremely aggravating. Sure, you don't hear it when your foot is on the floor...hell, you don't even hear it just above idle, but you have to idle sometime. I'm a windows down kind of guy, and when I pull up beside another vehicle at a stop light, I don't want to hear that sound echoing back at me. Damn. It sounds like a '96 neon with a couple hundred thousand miles on the accessory belt. Fack! It's like fingernails down a Goddamn chalkboard. Wait, I got it...It's like that nutty chick you went out with a while back...beautiful to look at, and all kinds of fun to throw around, but the sounds coming out her mouth hole would drive a crazy man sane! (should have tried feeding her some 2-stroke oil)


Inevitably, the low cost of the car will be brought up again. Yes, it was built to meet a price point. Great. Love the car. Hate the crickets. I don't care if the freakin' thing cost 99 cents, that noise ain't right.


They say the noise is not detrimental (though it drives me mental), and that no harm will come, but I think the harm is done. You see, I believe I'm developing orthopterophobia. I can't get them out of my head. I hear them in my sleep...taunting me. "We're here (chirp chirp), and we're not going away (chirp chirp)".


Damn crickets.