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				Odd noise
			 
 
			I know I am fishing here.  After the 2004 Boxster base sits for a week or ten days, on start up there is a thumping rhythmic sound, whap, whap, whap.  This has happened twice in the last 3 months.  The car is not throwing any codes.  It’s not a metallic sound.  If I shut it down and re-start, the noise goes away.  Is this related to oil pressure?  I thought it may be a small critter caught in the serpentine belt, but evidently not.  The belt was replaced last November, the water pump pulley was fine.  I use Mobil One 0-W-40 oil, and change once a year, every fall with less than 3,000 miles.  I’m stumped.  Anybody else experience this?  Thanks, Mitch
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