Poll: Does YOUR Tacoma tick ?

yep

 

My 14' ticked for the first 5k miles. Pretty bad actually. Just the last few weeks I started towing with it; a 5k# travel trailer. I intentionally made her work hard pulling up some steep grades. I figure if somethings gonna break I wanna know now. It pulls it quite impressively. And get this: no more tick. Go figure.

 

I haven't read much of this thread, and this may sound crazy, but:

For you guys that haven't changed the factory oil in your trucks, it could be that some of the tick comes from a lack of oil. I saw several threads flying around on TW that from the factory, people were getting their trucks ~1/2 quart low on oil. So it could be that something isn't getting enough oil to dampen the sound making it resonate more than a Toyota normally ticks. My $.02

 

Tick tick tick tick

 

bothered by ticks? Try this:

 

Mine Ticks...idles a little rough...but who cares ?? its a TRUCK ? a kick- ass one at that !!!

 

Its been 2500 miles since my exhaust revision and my tick is still gone. Its the only thing that seemed to work. Also, I live in South Florida where the temp doesn't get below 60F and I've tried 10w40 and various other weights and haven't seen any significant change in my tick, so I'm steering towards it not being an issue with oil flow in and out of the VVT-i cam phaser oil valve.

 

VVTI = Valves Very Ticky Inside

My 2TR-FE has a little tick, but it doesn't bother me.

You want to hear a ticky engine, take a listen to a VW/Audi direct injected engine. The injectors are very loud and when you own one, you're constantly listening for it to get worse and more diesel-like which means the cam chain tensioner is going bad.

 

'14 DCLB, no tick.

 

11 DBL Cab, 27,XXX miles, just bought it and yes-TICK! Traded a 01 Ext cab, long bed w/ the "Toyota tick" for this one that seems to be getting louder by the mile. I was also fortunate enough to get the annoying fan motor tick, but the engine is hardly noticible w/ the windows up. Step outside and you can hear it 30' away. Sounds like a diesel!! Reading this thread I'm not seeing too many solutions... Back to the "Stealership" I guess

 

every toyota i ever owned has the tick and every one any friend owned did to. BUT i have had a lexus RX, a lexus GX, amd we still have a lexus ES and even though they use the same motors none of them had the tick, never thought about that until just now???

 

My 2010 with 39k miles ticks at low speeds. I think it started around 33k miles. It must be engineering of the truck. Maybe it's more prevalent in certain altitudes or climates?

 

yup mine ticks.I want to pop the valve cover off and tighten the loose valve.

Then I read the manual and decided not to.

 

They all tick

 

maybe if I ever need to do the timing chain I'll check valve lash.

 

No tick here

 

I honestly thought of posting this question but was scared of looking like an idiot! Mine is more like a CLUNK not a tick