Hey guys.. My EA has been unregistered for a while now but I start it up and even drive it around the back yard a couple of times a week in order to hopefully keep the battery alive.

Last night it just started ticking, like a bomb. Freaked my GF out. Anyway I came home in the morning and opened the bonnet and narrowed down the ticking to 4 identical cube shaped boxes, which I assume are fuses or relays of some kind. I narrowed the ticking to the second box in, from the front, and removed it.

No more ticking.

Does anyone know what the box is? Why it would tick? I cant imagine a fusable link would tick if the battery went dead. Perhaps its a relay?

Relay.

Replace it with a good one and see what happens.

If it ticks again then you may have a wiring fault to chase.

tried that.. replaced it with one next to it.. click click click again

Which Relay is it for?

Charged battery. Started car.. No ticking again.
Weird.

Thanks all.

Little boxes like these?

Glad to hear problem solved.