Gotta 1989 G reg 440 with 1.7 manual petrol engine. The old lady starts fine and runs well. When starting a journey there is often a clicking sound coming from the engine bay. It is a rapidly repeated and irregular clicking sound, rather metallic. It isn't always there at the start of a journey and lasts only a minute or so. It happens when the car is moving, still or in neutral.
Methinks that it sound like a relay but seems to be coming from the middle of the engine bay rather than the right hand side where the relays and fuses are. The indicators and wipers work o.k.
Any ideas will be appreciated. I have tried running the engine and leaping out of the car and opening the bonnet to locate the source of the clicking but fid it difficult to identify where it is coming from. Could it be a death watch Beetle sending a Morse code message to the scrapyard????