Poll: Does YOUR Tacoma tick ?

Chris, all the respect to you. I understand your assessment however, according to this poll and my real world experience, There are late model 1GR engines that are silky smooth and have no ticking.

My gripe is this... I want one 25% that are quiet. I didn't pay $30k for a ticking machine.

Maybe I need to post some video of mine ticking. You can be 20 feet away and still hear tick, tick, tick, tick.

 

at a drive thru, my truck sounds like taliban underwear..it ticks crazy.

 

My 2009 v6 has no tick at all. Now my old 2000 4 banger ticked like crazy, but never gave me any problems.

 

^you're too old to hear it... my 08 ticks... sounds cheap

 

I think I have the regular valve train tick , but don't really notice. I do notice a different tick above 50mph. It seems to change with speed, not RPM's. Doesn't matter what gear I'm in, but can't hear it under 50. Anybody got any ideas what it is? Does anyone else have it? Dealer told me they didn't notice any abnormal noises.

Scott

 

You guys with the tick, just need to upgrade to louder, more agressive tires.

 

My Taco used to tick like crazy, i could hear it over engine and outside the car. Thing that I did for the filter killed tick, I can reproduce it by removing mesh from the airbox (tick) and putting it back (no tick). So its not like I can not hear it. Its just no longer there

 

(Bullwinkle J Moose climbs up onto soapbox.)

OK, here's my beef about this.

Now, we all drive *trucks* right? Historically, trucks are different from *cars.* They're supposed to be simpler, less expensive, more durable, and haul more stuff.

Now, manufacturers listen to the "squeaky wheel." The squeaky wheel gets the grease, as they say. And the more we gripe about rough ride and ticking noise, the more the more manufacturers like Toyota will produce "carified" trucks: More expensive, more complex, less durable.

In this case, they'll examine a few ticking trucks, find the valve bucket adjustment in spec but away from some perfect "non ticking" condition, and proceed to spend engineering time and money on finding a solution which might involve e.g.

* Even more sound deadening in the cab.

* Sound dampers somewhere in the engine.

* Tightening down the tolerances even more. (make no mistake - this costs money too)

* <insert your own esoteric solution here>

All of which takes time and attention and money away from some of the basic *TRUCK* problems they SHOULD be solving like, oh, say

* the frame rust issue.

* 6 sp throwout bearing

* Tailgates that bend under load

* leaf springs that can't carry truck's stated load capacity.

This kind of thing just helps convince Toyota (as if they needed more convincing) that what truck buyers really want is just oversized luxury cars, and they'll happily address this perceived need by continuing to do things like softening the suspension at the expense of load carrying capacity.

If there's a durability problem, yeah, let's raise holy heck with Toyota and make 'em fix it. But if the "problem" is that our trucks aren't enough like cars, well, maybe we just need to adjust our expectations. Dang Tacos are expensive enough already.

 

Mine does. Doesn't really bother me. I haven't seen any myself personally that don't.

 

my tacoma has a tick audible in the cab during HARD acceleration (before the truck downshifts) between 1500-2500 RPM. Sounds like a small exhaust leak.

The other existing tick is when it's cold, the plastic valve on the left side of engine ticks and can be heard only from outside.

First one can't be fixed, second one I think there is a fix here for it

So those are the TWO tacoma ticks.

 

Yes but so what. I had a 5-cylinder overhead cam Acura Vigor that had a worst ticking sound. It just doesn't bother me.

 

When the engine is warm, mine ticks pretty bad while idling (heard from the outside). Actually thought that the engine was gonna crap out on me before I found out that this was common. FWIW, my 98 4Runner with the 3.4 does NOT tick at all, while my dad's 95 T100, also with the 3.4, ticks even WORSE than my Taco.

 

The original engine in mine made no ticking what so ever. This "new" engine does.

 

Does a bear shit in the woods?

 

Mine tic's when its cold, hot, sunny, raining and cloudy with a chance of meatballs. I can hear it from the cab, from the outside and especially when I'm near a wall with the windows down (aka McDonald's drive through). I've gotten used to it. If the engine is reliable the damn thing can sound like Gilbert Gottfried and I'll be happy.

 

yea mine ticks too, but my old montero sport tic'd like crazy, like as if it was a lil pussy enigne tryin to be a diesel, but i hardly notice my ticking now, i guess i kinda got use to it, or it maybe my new cd that i listen to too much, lol

 

My 2011 has no noticeable tick at this time but my 2007 Tundra started ticking from the first week. I have had drive through cashiers tell me to turn the truck off thinking it was a diesel...All that being said I put 138,000 miles on the truck and never brought it to the dealer for any problems..

 

I had a vortech supercharger on a car and a turbo that whistled. Those are sounds I can get used to.... Who know's maybe the tick, tick, tick all day everyday will grow on me. But then again, maybe not.
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