Hi there,

I had my Panda serviced about 3 weeks ago and since last week I have noticed a very quiet ticking noise coming from the lower part of the engine. It sounds to me like its the hydraulic tappets. I was just curious as to what this noise might be because the car itself is perfect, it pulls away fine, there is no loss of power etc and no misfires etc. I spoke to the garage where I had it serviced and they put an oil additive in it and said that it would need a couple of weeks to work its way around the engine.

You only generally tend to notice once you've started the car up and once you've applied some acceleration in idle, apart from that once its warmed up, you won't hear a peep out of it. If it is the tappets, what would I do in terms of possibly having them adjusted or would I not need to do anything? Any advice would be great.

Thanks