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Originally Posted by BigTuna
That is the sound of the engine cooling down. The metals are simply cooling down and contracting after being hot.
All cars do this every time you turn them off if they've been running for a while.
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lol yeah, pretty much ^
It was crazy when I was a kid. A car would turn off, and it sounded like you were driving on a pebble road with how many "ding!" sounds I heard.
I used to think all the rocks and small debris would collect in the bottom of the car while driving, and it would 'release' when parked.