Alright guys I have a 96 accord ex coupe (for thoes that didn't look @ my screen name). I wanted to say I have done a search and have come up with this( https://honda-tech.com/zerosearch )so no help there. This noise is unique to all others I have heard my car make since I had her.(august/2001).The noise is a clicking/ticking/tapping/humming hard to discribe noise. The noise I have been noticing seems to be coming from behind the gauge cluster/steering colum/fuse box next to the foot rest area. so if you are sittiing in your drivers sit it's coming from the leftfront corner of the car. It does not have a pattern that it fallows it just comes on. Sometimes you can baely hear it sometimes it's loud.(loud being the radio at normal listing level to talk radio station/ not listing level to music loud). Sometimes it's making the noise for less then 2 sec's sometimes 20 sec's .I was driving my wife to work this morning the noise started to happen and my wife heard the noise too. She asked me what it was , I inturn looked at her and shrugged my sholders and seid "I dont know" I was surprised too hear that my wife has had that same noise sound from her 2000 civic sedan.(march/2000 she sold it last week). She never mentiond it to me , my wife seid it did not seem like a problem, so she let it go. Me in the other hand I want to know if this is happening to any of you out there , just seemd weird that a 5th gen accord does it and a 2000 civic does it. So maybe all honda's do it .


[Modified by 96accordex, 3:03 PM 2/4/2003]

 

I am not sure what the noise sounds like eactly, but i think it might be the ABS pump. You have ABS right?


[Modified by RS4, 11:18 PM 2/4/2003]

 

yeah i do have abs...... but im not sure it's the abs because it does not effect driving in anyway, or stopping. also my wifes car did not have abs .

i forgot to meantion my car is all stock the execpt for (cai) none of the gauge cluster lights come on not throwing a cel , i know if it's not affecting my car then leave it ,but it's like a itch you just have to scratch it oh yeah sometimes the noise does not happen for a few days sometime it will happen a few times a day.?


[Modified by 96accordex, 3:46 PM 2/4/2003]

 

This is one of does times when you less expected you find the answer to your own question. O.k so after 1 1/2 years +, I finally found out what that noise was. It was my wifes i90 motorolla cell phone. It was sending a signal and interfering with the oem radio, the signal would then be amplafide and the noise would come out the speaker on the drivers door. The way I found out it was the cell phone was , i had gone over to my in-laws house , and i whent into one of the guest rooms to use the cell phone . I was talking to my friends on the line and so i turned on the tv, the tv started making the exact sound it was making in my car , i was like "Hell yeah" I noticed it was only makeing the noise when the antena on the cell would touch the side of my head or i would put my finger on the antena.


i hope this helps some one , other then just me.

 

LOL, it should even make the noise if the radio is turned all the way down, the sound will still transmit thru the speakers. I was next to a truck once and heard his CB radio PERFECTLY clear thru the car stereo... it startled me at first as I didn't have the volume up just the radio was on. Ever left a cell phone below a computer monitor and it starts ringing?? Kinda makes you think if you really should be holding it up to your brain? I use my headset whenever possible.