Check your oil NOW!

My 1998 did the same thing after a service. Same situation went to an ATM machine and heard the reflecting sound I shut down the car and let it roll away from the ATM and parked it and checked the oil. It was quite low. I walked to a service station and bought some and put it in and the sound went away. The dealership of course did not accept responsibility for their actions.

Well, I have a 98 s70 t5 that came with the certified 24k warranty. It will expire in 1k miles. I talked to the service department for their opinion (not the salesman). The mechanic said that he personally wouldn't do it with my car. He said that car usually doesn't have many problems in those miles...but if you do it will cost a lot. If you look at what is covered...it is very limited (despite the multipages of listed parts). The few things I've had to get fixed actually have not been covered by warranty. I looked at the parts list and the only one that concerned me was if my turbo went bad before 100k miles. Other then that...unless I had a catastrophic failure of a lot of major parts...the cost of the warranty seemed to be more then what I would get in return.

Basically it is a gamble. The rate you pay is basically the average cost of repairs for that car during those miles. The warrantier (is that a word?) is betting your car will last and you are betting that it won't. I think to extend my warranty by 20k miles (or 1 year of my driving) would cost me $1600. I personally don't think my car would have that many problems. It is a Volvo...supposed to last forever and then a few more days. Cars generally speaking will make it to 100k miles before having issues. A warrantier (there is that work again) wouldn't warranty your car unless he thought it would last, but he puts the price down because that is a little bit more then what the average repair cost is for that car). I'm hoping my car is better then average.

But that is my opinion.

Can't help you w/ the Warranty. I got some bizarre letter from some non-Volvo HQ saying my Volvo C70's warr. is expiring (the 3 year will, but not until Dec.). The bizarre letter said to call some 800#, but says nothing of price or exactly who they are - and how they got my info.
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The ticking sound is probably your fuel injectors, and based on your estimate of the location, that sounds about right. I've heard per the Brickboard that it's normal (not that it makes either of us happy, but at least we know).