Tapping - probably nothing, but.........

[atmorris]

I know this is probably nothing but......

Started my 986 for the first time in maybe a week the other day and heard a tapping coming from the left rear side near the airbox area. Sounded a lot like lifters tapping. It didn't seem to be clearing up right away, so I shut the car off, double checked the oil, and restarted it. No tapping on the restart at all. I did not hear this tapping again the rest of the weekend.

What concerns me is that a) the oil was/is full, B) was just changed 5k miles ago, and c) the car had only sat for MAYBE 5 days since it was last run. Any comments or cautions?

Just want to be sure it might not be an early warning of some sort......

[Loren]

Sounds normal to me. I get some tapping unless the car is started every day.

[fasterjames]

Until I made mine a daily driver I heard a tapping too that made me a little worried. Now either it's not happening anymore (10K miles later) or I've gotten used to it.

[atmorris]

I figured as much, but just thought it would be worth checking on. My '03 is barely broken in at 20k original miles.

Thanks for the response guys.