I dunno where to go on this.

My 1.4 Mk 7 petrol engine, with 15,000 miles covered still sounds like it has noisy tappets. A cupful of 10-50w oil added to the oil today made no difference. I'd changed the oil with fresh as specified VW oil a few months ago. But that also made no difference.

My local independent garage (East London / Essex border) suggests the noise is due a faulty pulley on the aircon compressor of the alternator. But using a long screwdriver (soft end touching my ear) I hear the noise much louder when the screwdriver blade is touching the rocker cover, at 3 seconds into the attached video.

I can also hear the noise loud when I touch whatever is the part shown at 9 seconds into the video - I don't know what that part is called.

Any more suggestions on what this noise can be - and what is the part touched by the screwdriver at 9 seconds is - would be appreciated.





Golf noise + screwdriver - YouTube