Thanks again for all your replies, you have all made me very depressed. As I am in Scotland nowhere is open until Tues 5th Jan so I am having to skate round the icy roads in my daughter's VW golf for a few days, yuk. Wish me luck.

Thanks for all your replies. Past experiance with many broken halfshafts in Series 3 landies confirms is is not allways easy to find first go which side is broken. More seriously how hard is it to replace P38 front halfshafts? Cannot find front half shafts mentioned in either Rave or hard...

Thanks for the reply but if a halft shaft is broken jacking up either wheel will will enable it to turn because of the design of the diff.

Hello and a happy new year to all from snowed in Scotland. :doh: Problem is no front wheel drive on my 2.5 DSE 1996 P38. I suspect broken half shaft but have yet to find a satisfactory method of discovering which side is defunct. All talk of jacking up and turning wheels or propshafts cannot...