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Anyway, if your interested, I took my car to my OPC today and the high pitched tapping sound was caused by the fact that one of my spark plugs hadn't been tightened up properly during my last service.
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Anyway, if your interested, I took my car to my OPC today and the high pitched tapping sound was caused by the fact that one of my spark plugs hadn't been tightened up properly during my last service.
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Hi, I recently had the RMS and a new clutch fitted on my 1999 996C2, ive only driven about 150mls since, however I now get a high pitched tapping sound when I pull away at low revs (i.e. less than 1500 rpm.) Ive booked the car in at my OPC to have it checked out, but was just wondering if anyone else had a similar problem after the engine had been out? Cheers Paul

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I Knew it was a bit of a long shot asking this question, (hence the zero replies) [ ] Anyway, if your interested, I took my car to my OPC today and the high pitched tapping sound was caused by the fact that one of my spark plugs hadn't been tightened up properly during my last service. While I thought the car felt ok, it definatley wasn't right as it felt so much better driving home today.

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