Electrical clicking noise, HELP!

Oliverwaite1

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Hi all,
I'm new here and have just bought my first Audi after many years of lusting.
It's a 2001 A4 3.0 Quattro sport.
Beautiful car, tiptronic and all seems ok. The only thing is an extremely irritating noise and I'll do my best to describe it, as searching the web has only let me know others have had this problem, but no solution.
The noise is coming from the ignition/footwell/bonnet lever area just above my right knee. (UK) it's almost certainly of an electrical nature and sounds like a switch clicking on and off over and over again. Almost like a sensor which can't quite make its mind up. It's only happens when the engine is running, even at stand still, whilst driving, accelerating, braking and have tried turning the air con off, on, hot and cold. It will click away about 8 times and then stop, only to resume randomly every 10secs or so. It sounds like there are two different clicks, like one on and one off in short succession. This is driving me mad, especially as I have just bought the car and paranoia kicks in. I'm guessing it's nothing major but oh my me is it annoying. Thankyou so much for anyone who takes the time to help.
Kind regards,
Oliver
 
Hi all,
I'm new here and have just bought my first Audi after many years of lusting.
It's a 2001 A4 3.0 Quattro sport.
Beautiful car, tiptronic and all seems ok. The only thing is an extremely irritating noise and I'll do my best to describe it, as searching the web has only let me know others have had this problem, but no solution.
The noise is coming from the ignition/footwell/bonnet lever area just above my right knee. (UK) it's almost certainly of an electrical nature and sounds like a switch clicking on and off over and over again. Almost like a sensor which can't quite make its mind up. It's only happens when the engine is running, even at stand still, whilst driving, accelerating, braking and have tried turning the air con off, on, hot and cold. It will click away about 8 times and then stop, only to resume randomly every 10secs or so. It sounds like there are two different clicks, like one on and one off in short succession. This is driving me mad, especially as I have just bought the car and paranoia kicks in. I'm guessing it's nothing major but oh my me is it annoying. Thankyou so much for anyone who takes the time to help.
Kind regards,
Oliver
Welcome to ASN! Can you take a recording of the sound. I have that sound when I put the key in to ON. Recently found out on here it was the throttle body alignment. But this should stop after the 8 times.
Ruhel
 
Welcome to ASN! Can you take a recording of the sound. I have that sound when I put the key in to ON. Recently found out on here it was the throttle body alignment. But this should stop after the 8 times.
Ruhel

Thanks for your reply, I will post a sound tomorrow morning. Unfortunately the sound carries on constantly when driving and it's really annoying. It doesn't stop! Sorry if I didn't make that clear. Hopefully someone will know!. I will look into the throttle body just in case.
Thanks x
 
Update. It seems to be worse when accelerating and going up hill.