Author Topic: Any ideas ? thumping noise when engine is off ??  (Read 2402 times)

Offline Agreeable Slick

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Re: Any ideas ? thumping noise when engine is off ??
« Reply #10 on: 08 July 2009, 19:56 »
cooling fan perhaps?

Or as suggested, various control units powering down? Ford focus' do this when you switch them off, it actually sounds like a generator has turned off.

Although it does depend on the volume of the thumping.

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Re: Any ideas ? thumping noise when engine is off ??
« Reply #11 on: 08 July 2009, 20:34 »
maybe,its had cam belt and kit,so nothing serious,but strange,i know mechanical problem noises fairly well but this was different,only done it twice.
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