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I had some faint tapping / rattling noise earlier which started to get more pronounced recently. It appears to come from the upper intake manifold area, and sometimes it's louder, other times cannot really be heard, but nowadays it's there quite often. Here is a video link. Based on some reading and searching, it could be the SSV noise described in this TSB. The VIN is in the mentioned range, and the car has ~143K miles on the original engine.
Perhaps someone heard this already and can confirm or disprove what this noise could be?
I dread having to take apart everything to get to the SSV if that's what it is ... getting this fixed in a shop is probably insanely expensive.
Thanks, folks.