help! engine problems

[Ex-User (60778)]

I drive a twingo rs and could do with some advice.

Ive just started my car and as soon as the engine started it basically sounded like there was a bag of spanners in my engine! My dad heard it in the living room!

It did it on Sunday too but I didn't pay much attention as it was only a slight noise.

That was so loud! I stopped the engine immediately. As on sunday, I started the engine again a few mins later and it was fine.

My dad seems to think the main bearing must be dry? Hence the noise the first time the engine is started.

So annoyed as there is noway I'll be able to replicate the noise at the dealers without parking it up for 12hours first.

The noise didn't subside tonight until I turned the engine off.

Definitely a rotating noise and a bag of spanners is the only way to describe it

 

[callum_bell]

i remember working on a twingo 133 with a horrendous engine noise, turned out the gearbox mount bolt had came loose and sheared off this caused the engine to move over slighlty and the pulleys were touching the chassis leg. Worth a look

Also could possibly be a VVT pulley rattling on start up don't know if they are common for going on these cars tho

 

[Ex-User (60778)]

Didn't make the noise this morning. So both times its happened has been when it has been sat all day in this weather. I'll take a video at 8 tonight when I finish work when it will likely do it.

I'll look into what you've mentioned above thanks