Engine kinda noisy?

[The Shape]

I noticed the other day that my wifes Yaris seems kinda noisy. Is this common with these engines? The car runs smooth as silk and is a great little car, it just seems to tick alot. The oil level is fine and no C/E lights or anything.

[YAR1S]

my yaris ticks... you can hear it ticking on idle and reving... its just a small engine....
lots of time you can hear it over the radio... but that just means you havnt got the music loud enough!


haha


ps: compared to my last car... merc grand marquis ..... my itty bitty yaris is a lot more noisy.

[UTVitz]

The valves have to be manually adjusted on these cars-ticking might mean they are getting more out of adjustment than they should be. The service isn't recommened by Toyota till 60K, but you might have a service dept. give it a listen and go with what they recommend. Mine are totally quiet at this point.

[roxy1]

[QUOTE=The Shape;260223]I noticed the other day that my wifes Yaris seems kinda noisy. Is this common with these engines? QUOTE]


yes.

they could have made it quieter (well, not the engine itself) with more sound insulation, but at the cost of making it heavier. its not really bad for a sub compact.

[Yawesh]

Originally Posted by The Shape

I noticed the other day that my wifes Yaris seems kinda noisy. Is this common with these engines? The car runs smooth as silk and is a great little car, it just seems to tick alot. The oil level is fine and no C/E lights or anything.

there are thousands of threads about engine noise, tons of sounds coming from the yaris........i know tha feeling

[thebarber]

id been driving out aveo for the last 3 months or so out east...and coming back to the yaris i really noticed how loud the engine is in the cabin....

[Lafiro]

My car is loud too.

But whats really annoying me right now are two things:

1)The car idles a little rough, dropping to 500rpm at times, and when I shut off the car, it sounds like its farting out the muffler, and it trembles a bit. NEVER use to do this before(maybe 10k miles ago), currently at 47k miles.

2) When In drive or reverse, there is a loud constant sqiking sound mostly from under the car. It gets louder, when the RPMs are lower, and goes away when the rpm goes a bit higher, but the noise isnt from the engine bay since I stuck my head to listen, and it doesnt seem to be the belts. What could this be?

I dont have time these days with work and school and GF to be taking my car in for hours.

[Tamago]

gerbils do tend to squeak when you make them run fast...

[ChinoCharles]

When I had my stock exhaust, there were times when I wasn't sure if my car was on or off, so I'm kind of confused by this thread. To me, the Yaris is VERY quiet.

[Red Horse]

I think our car does'nt like synthetic oil cause since I change mine to synthetic it became noisy and vibrating.

[Altitude]

+1 for a quiet Yaris. I can't even tell if the engine is running sometimes. Then again I have less than 5k on mine.

[tomato]

My car is really quiet at low speed, in fact when I first test drove it, I didn't know if it was on and off when I came to the first red light.

On the highway, at higher speed, you can hear the engine a lot better and I think that's normal.

[Pars]

Once the engine is warmed up, mine would idle, while parked on a busy street and you'd have to lean up to the hood to realize it's running. Mobel-1 oil and premium gas helps... However, when the engine is cold, and into it's high-rpm idle, it's loud and needs some time to quiet down.
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[devinlamothe]

My engine squeals like a mofo. Just recently started doing this too. I think it's the accessory belt that needs to be tightened/replaced, though.

[enobmort42]

mine isn't noisy to where i'd bring it up to a mechanic.. i just hit 47,000 today and aside from a light whistle around 70 mph and the sounds of the road, i don't hear much more...

[1NZYaris1]

Just gave mine a tune up

sorry just had to show off my Microimage mascot