Ruediger Barth > wrote in message >. ..
> Hi all,
>
> since three months I have my first Alfa (and my first car at all :-)),
> a used 147 with the 1.6 Eco engine, three years old and ca. 30000 km
> on the clock.
>
> Sometimes, after the travel, when the car is pretty warmed up, and I
> want to stop it, I hear a noise that make's me thinking:
> I've read that this motor has casually problems to provide the
> hydraulic tappets (I think that's the same like "Hydro-Stößel" in
> German) with enough oil. I heard this sound two or three times quite
> loud and it disappeared after some meters driving.
> But the noise I want to describe has a similar frequency and timbre,
> but not so loud. Could that also be the hydraulic tappets, but with
> nearly sufficient oil pressure? Or are the hydraulic tappets rattling
> only loud?
>
> Thank you a lot for your comments,
>
> Rüdi

Make sure its got the correct oil. If it gets tappy when warm the oil
may be too thin....