Hi an on and off prob for a while car would jerk left as if something was pulling steering wheel , then would carry on as normal for minutes , sometimes days and in the last stretch 4 months of no issue , I had it in garage for a check and nothing was found to be wrong , however yesterday and today the problem occurred for most of my journey home I constantly was fighting the wheel holding it slightly right and could feel it trying to jerk to the left most of the journey this was accompanied by like the sound of driving over rumble strips , I got to a junction heard a couple of clunks , then as I try pull away sounds like bucket of nails have to really throttle down so revs high and it clunks in and moved with all the metal sounds I pulled up in safe place and left it for recovery later on , anyone know of potential prob or is it game over for this motor , sitting at 185000 but no other issues ?
Drive shaft cv joint ?? ( SOLVED )
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No clue not in the last 15 months at the very least .
So I start it although all the dash warnings now come on it sounds like a bucket of nails , metal rattling what’s the likely damage need a new diff, if I floor the accelerator I can move it still just sounds like **** when it started the noise I did hear like metal falling off perhaps ?
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You need to get under it, wheels off the deck and check the diff, see what the wheels wanna do when you turn em
Got the feeling you got a d3, they can eat diffs and some of em had a mad coating in the inside that broke up
Diff replacement on drive is doable but I didn't laugh about it much
you can get them rebuilt at a specialist
Might be drives haft or sumat tho, need to have a good look, can you get it recovered to a garage
Got the feeling you got a d3, they can eat diffs and some of em had a mad coating in the inside that broke up
Diff replacement on drive is doable but I didn't laugh about it much
you can get them rebuilt at a specialist Might be drives haft or sumat tho, need to have a good look, can you get it recovered to a garage
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Hmm don't think you wanna drive it mate
It isn't rattling on idle is it? Just when you try to take up drive?
It isn't rattling on idle is it? Just when you try to take up drive?
Idle is fine then as soon as drive engaged and hand brake off it clangs away
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Good
i had a front prop strip its splines on mine as well, sounded horrendous but no drive, didn't have the funky steering tho with that. It needs wheels up recovery mate, use the AA, you're paying for it 
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Not too bad then, as the RH gentleman said
Well upon looking at what’s involved, I changed all the front hubs/bearings last year it doesn’t look like it would take much more stripping down then that to replace , so to save having it recovered to another garage and costs I’m going to attempt it , is it just a new r/h drive shaft I would need and that would include everything needed to replace like for like is it likely a drive shaft failing damages anything else as hoping just be a simple replacement ( prob not so simple with these cars )
