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????