IF YOU HAVE CLICKING FROM ENGINE OR ANYTHING of the sort PLEASEEEEEE READ!!!!!!

[drzcrazychulo4u]

IF YOU HAVE CLICKING FROM ENGINE OR ANYTHING of the sort PLEASE READ!!!!!UNPDTE PICSS

hi everyone ok so first here is the story: i heard clicking from the front and heard a few different reason it could be clicking. my thoughts were either an axle or motor mount. long story short i was driving and i dropped the axle it just made a loud clank. i pulled over right away and popped my hood turns out my motor is sagging to the tranny side and the axle popped and tore threw the cv joint rubber thing. i will have pictures tomorrow to show what i mean... i personally couldnt believe it when it happened and when i saw what it actually was... keep in mind this car is brand new it is a 09 mazdaspeed 3 with 3572 miles. only mods are cobb turbo inlet, cobb short ram intake, and fmic.

 

[bigdaddy]

yeah...I can hear clicking, but its usually only when I go over the bumps dividing the lanes. And its only on the driver side. I am definitely making an appt. at my maz. dealer tom! I def. dont want this to happen to me. It has, however, been happening for quite some time though.

 

[drzcrazychulo4u]

bro as a ms3 owner i only recommend 1 thing make an appt asap i made mine one wed for this up comin monday and look what happen !!!!! it was minor and i thought it was nothing and now look.

 

[jam_asian85]

hope you remove your mods before you go in for your appt.

 

[BillTheCat]

hope you remove your mods before you go in for your appt.

QFE, times eleventy billion.

 

[leadf00t]

QFE, times eleventy billion.

Yeah, what he said !!

So is this the infamous tranny mount bolt issue, or something else ? I will be interested to see what he finds out.

 

[speed3driver]

How do i fix the clicking noise

 

[8.5MS3]

Its got something to do with the axle/cv joint assembly. theres a thread about it on MSF. guy had the same issue and they replaced his axle assemblies. I just noticed i got it about a week ago...probably from all the autox i do. only 7500 miles on the odo. will be bringing it to my mod friendly dealer soon...

 

[derspi]

^^

I went through that thread and the guy from Toronto that got his dealer to replace the entire driver side axle and associated bits had no clicking noises for ONE WHOLE DAY after the new axle but the clicking came back by day 2.

 

[8.5MS3]

240kr has the same thing, hes going to a dealer this week as am i. I will report back when everything gets resolved, or my engine falls out...whichever comes first

 

[12secondhatch]

i just noticed this today

 

[H3br3w_Ham3r]

Clicking as in over bumps? Or just normal driving? Is it a metallic sounding or does it sound like plastic? Too bad this could be a million things clicking under the hood. Our engine clicks at idle hope you don't think thats what it was.

 

[SallySpeed3]

Clicking as in over bumps? Or just normal driving? Is it a metallic sounding or does it sound like plastic? Too bad this could be a million things clicking under the hood. Our engine clicks at idle hope you don't think thats what it was.

And to add to that. This car makes more noises than any other car I've ever driven.

 

[8.5MS3]

For me its a clicking/grinding at takeoff. Start from a stop, go into 1st or reverse, when the engine has some load on it you can hear what would be the equivalent of the engine flexing against something metal, as you are moving in 1st blip the throttle strongly, as the weight of the car shifts back and forth you can hear a clicking/grinding noise coming from what seems like the wheel area. I have it on the left, others have it on the right...hope this helps

 

[matsuda]

Clicking as in over bumps? Or just normal driving? Is it a metallic sounding or does it sound like plastic? Too bad this could be a million things clicking under the hood. Our engine clicks at idle hope you don't think thats what it was.

No, it's not engine noise.

It seems to be related to the transmission and/or driveshafts being loaded/unloaded. I don't think that it's caused directly by engine movement.

 

[matsuda]

For me its a clicking/grinding at takeoff. Start from a stop, go into 1st or reverse, when the engine has some load on it you can hear what would be the equivalent of the engine flexing against something metal, as you are moving in 1st blip the throttle strongly, as the weight of the car shifts back and forth you can hear a clicking/grinding noise coming from what seems like the wheel area. I have it on the left, others have it on the right...hope this helps

Try this if you can:

Park the car on a level surface, put it in 1st gear with the parking brake off.
Open the hood, grab something solid in the front of the engine compartment and try rocking the car back and forth.

Can you hear the same noise?

 

[derspi]

For me its a clicking/grinding at takeoff. Start from a stop, go into 1st or reverse, when the engine has some load on it you can hear what would be the equivalent of the engine flexing against something metal, as you are moving in 1st blip the throttle strongly, as the weight of the car shifts back and forth you can hear a clicking/grinding noise coming from what seems like the wheel area. I have it on the left, others have it on the right...hope this helps

I had it recently too. Would let out a noticeable metallic "click" when I let off the gas in mostly 1st, 2nd and 3rd gear sometimes even in 4th but it all depends on how much load you're putting into it. This noise coincided with when I first had my CPE 60-duro mount put in and although it was really only intermittent at first, a couple of weeks ago, it got much more frequent. To the point that I thought the rear MM had come loose or something was wrong with it. Of course, nothing was wrong with it nor was it loose so I just put the stock MM on for now to see what would happen. Lo and behold, I haven't had the click come back at all so far and it's been just over a week now.

 

[8.5MS3]

I have the cp-e mount as well but that wouldnt really have an affect on the flexing of the front wheel area (tranny mount??) theres a tsb on older mazda 3's. if anything it should prevent that type of creaking since the engine is being held back from flexing, keeping everything in proper geometry....then again i could be completely wrong

 

[derspi]

Try this if you can:

Park the car on a level surface, put it in 1st gear with the parking brake off.
Open the hood, grab something solid in the front of the engine compartment and try rocking the car back and forth.

Can you hear the same noise?

When the car was on the lift, we gave the front wheels a few rotations with the car off and it made the same sound. Most definitely coming from either within the tranny or the CV joint. Could also be a bearing issue but the clicking isn't constant nor does it change with speed - it is most definitely load related.

 

[derspi]

I have the cp-e mount as well but that wouldnt really have an affect on the flexing of the front wheel area (tranny mount??) theres a tsb on older mazda 3's. if anything it should prevent that type of creaking since the engine is being held back from flexing, keeping everything in proper geometry....then again i could be completely wrong

I know, it makes no friggin' sense to me either. I went ahead and put the stock MM back on thinking that if I needed to go in for warranty work, the CPE MM isn't going to help my cause. But to my surprise, the sound is gone for now, I hope it doesn't crop up down the road and/or when I get my ETD installed. Can't stand how much the engine moves when I'm shifting with the stock rear MM though.

FYI, I have a friend who has the same issue but he's running CS inserts.