182 Engine/cam/lifter noise, advice/thoughts welcome

[Ham182]

Hi all, if you have a moment, I would love it if you would take a look/listen at the below.
Is this a dephaser pulley that's gone/is going?
Would the noise travel along the cams? Doesn't sound diesely yet in my opinion and no noise is coming from the pulley itself it would seem.
Car is a 2004 on 88k, 519 Automotive did the pulley, cambelt and aux belt at 68k, could it have gone again already?
It's running with oil that is due a change (not ancient), brand new plugs I fitted at the weekend in case one was loose, the noise was apparent before I changed pugs (didn't do oil at the time as forgot to order sump plug, doh) and a lifter cleaner prior to oil change as I thought this may help.
Happy to get the pulley done, a specialist nearby has quoted £450 for belt, water pump and pulley, plus the PAS pump needs changing at the same time at £195 for pump and auxbelt/tensioner kit, but not if it's not likely to be that.....
Do the lifters/valves/tappets fail on these engines?


Thanks in advance, Ian

 

[bloke]

can hear a bit of pas pump noise and on the first one possibly waterpump but it's always hard to tell from a video.

they can be a 'noisy' engine anyway as the belt is quite long on them.

 

[Ham182]

can hear a bit of pas pump noise and on the first one possibly waterpump but it's always hard to tell from a video.
they can be a 'noisy' engine anyway as the belt is quite long on them.

It's the ticking/tapping that's got me concerned though, really spoiling the drive with the sun out and the windows down!

 

[Ham182]

Ps, I have unplugged the injectors one by one to check them and made no difference so assume they are ok. Noise definitely most prominent from 'Renault' area of the plenum chamber.

 

[DickP]

Hi,

I'm no expert but that sounds like noisy cam followers to me and nothing to be concerned about?

 

[Daz...]

Sounds like mine.

You can't hear it over the induction or exhaust noise though, so all is well.

 

[Ham182]

Hi,
I'm no expert but that sounds like noisy cam followers to me and nothing to be concerned about?

Sounds like mine.
You can't hear it over the induction or exhaust noise though, so all is well.

Thanks guys, the car is in for a PAS pump change at the moment, so I might get the lifters & tappets taken out for a clean. (specialists have agreed it's louder than what's usually expected) It's very audible at 30 to 40mph when not accelerating, so as I said it's spoiling the enjoyment of the car for me at the moment.