Engine bay tick, not dephaser?

[turke]

Yesterday I noticed a ticking noise coming from the engine bay (only noticed when the engine was warm), initially I thought dephaser, so I left it over night and started it up cold, and if I'm right in saying, a noisy dephaser isnt that apparently when starting cold, but when I started cold, the tick was still there just not as loud.

Also, I reviewed the worn dephaser videos in the sticky and it isn't the same kind of noise, so I'm starting to think it isn't the dephaser. Any ideas? This is the video of the noise (taken when first discovered, warm engine)



Car currently has 93500miles on it and the aux belt and tensioner and idle wheel for the belt were all changed on wednesday with genuine renault parts. Cheers

 

[R-Sport.]

Maybe its the carbon canister

 

[turke]

Maybe its the carbon canister

possibly, reading around I also hear this does tend to tick loudly and can be straight up removed, correct? but is the tick meant to increase in frequency with the engine revs?

 

[Willo40]

If you remove the carbon canister you need to plug the pipe and fit a 23ohm resistor into the wiring or the toxic light indicator will come on, on the dash....

 

[Iain C]

check your spark plugs and oil

 

[turke]

Thanks for the replies, going to give it a going over tomorrow, check spark plugs first, then see about the carbon canister

 

[da rok]

does the tick stay the same speed or does it change with the revs?

 

[turke]

does the tick stay the same speed or does it change with the revs?

Changes with revs, but doesn't get any quieter or fades away, I revved to 3.5-4k and it was still present

 

[turke]

Got hold of another carbon canister, the solenoid is just the small circular part on top where the connection and the tube plugs in, right? I don't have to actually change the whole unit

 

[turke]

Pretty sure its not the carbon canister, cant get at the sparkplugs right now and dont have a socket for them anyway, cant really tell the location of the tick by ear