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hello. heard that noise before, might be crankshaft pulley, starting to go. if it's not been changed within that mileage. so if that is the problem, you might as well change the other pulleys. saves hassle in future.
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Thanks Gaza, with a crank pulley, would I expect the noise to get worse at higher revs? also do you know how I could check that out without doing anything too intrusive? at idle it's sat just above 800 revs and the noise goes away completely if i give it the lightest of touches on the accelerator.
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Also, I should have probably mentioned that it's only starting from cold when the weather is also cold. When it's a few deg warmer it doesn't do it at all which was has led me to my current baffled state
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Do you have an injector leaking?
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one was leaking before I got the car, but after a damn good tighten hasn't leaked since.
have booked into the stealership for diags and will report back here - my searches for similar noises haven't turned up the same one, so hopefully this will both be 1) not financially crippling, and 2) useful to someone else somewhere along the way :-)
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Thanks Ron, will give that a shot - it seems to have only ever had dealership oil thus far... Not sure if that's a good or bad thing really as, looking over service receipts from before I had it, historically its had 10w rather than 5w. I guess that's what the previous owner got for taking it to a vauxhall place for servicing.
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Have checked through again, it was serviced approx 6k miles ago and deffo has the right oil in it.
This morning the issue has developed slightly and has added a very lumpy idle on start and a degree of blue smoke out the exhaust.
I fear that open wallet season has arrived
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