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Originally Posted by Laika
Yes! This is absolutely it! And I've never heard that from any Subaru either and I've been around a good number of them
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I caught the tapping from another thread, too. The one with the Subie engineer. It's very faint (and I'm probably imagining it), but around the 20 second mark and on, you can hear it. Kind of have to drown out the chatter between the folks in the video, but yea.
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Anyone else with a BRZ want to confirm the tapping? G37s had a similar, VVEL related tapping issue which is common in about 1 out of every 10 cars or so in the early models. I believe the fix was switching to Nissan ester oil. I think the conclusion was that it was normal and expected, but the magic oil would get rid of it completely if it bothered the owners that much.
In all actuality, I accept it as normal operation noise. Normal, annoying, operation noise. I think you should speak up about it during your next service visit and make sure they document it.