andy4976
23-07-2009, 12:33 AM
Hi all
Anyone any thoughts on this problem, on heading home this evening, I had both front windows down due to the warm weather, I could hear this strange noise coming from the passenger side front wheel, I could only describe it as, something metal trailing along the ground, I stopped the car and checked around the front passenger wheel ,everything seemed fine and nothing was loose, so I continued on my journey, a mile or so along the road the noise came back, I was stuck in rush hour traffic so not able to stop, the noise seemed to get louder and louder, eventually I head a bang and lost all drive, and felt like something fell off and hit the underside of the car as I free wheeled along the road, turns out the Passenger side inner driveshaft had disintegrated, when I tried to drive just got a bang bang noise , was kind of worried to towed it, in case I did further damage, luckily my father in-law has large trailers at his workplace and drives a jeep, so we trailered it to my local VW dealer, and left it with security, luckily I took out VW extended warranty, so hopefully should have no issues, but god knows what they will hit me with tomorrow.
We had a look at the driveshaft and both out and inner gaiters are in place, so I can’t understand how this has occurred, you can see the inner driveshaft jump when trying to take up drive, I also can’t find any other posts with this problem, my car had a new clutch fitted aprox 6 months ago under warranty, they didn’t tighten bolts properly on they flywheel which resulted in a loud banging noise, but this was eventually resolved, I can’t but help thinking they must have disturbed something, anyone have any thoughts on how this could happen, they also had the car 2 weeks ago when I had cruise control fitted, I had asked them to check engine mountings due to a intermittent strange noise ( it was like a cracking noise) they reported all was fine.
My Passat is a 2006 2.0 TDI Sport, and has only covered 49k, with full service history
Anyone had the same problem
Anyone any thoughts on this problem, on heading home this evening, I had both front windows down due to the warm weather, I could hear this strange noise coming from the passenger side front wheel, I could only describe it as, something metal trailing along the ground, I stopped the car and checked around the front passenger wheel ,everything seemed fine and nothing was loose, so I continued on my journey, a mile or so along the road the noise came back, I was stuck in rush hour traffic so not able to stop, the noise seemed to get louder and louder, eventually I head a bang and lost all drive, and felt like something fell off and hit the underside of the car as I free wheeled along the road, turns out the Passenger side inner driveshaft had disintegrated, when I tried to drive just got a bang bang noise , was kind of worried to towed it, in case I did further damage, luckily my father in-law has large trailers at his workplace and drives a jeep, so we trailered it to my local VW dealer, and left it with security, luckily I took out VW extended warranty, so hopefully should have no issues, but god knows what they will hit me with tomorrow.
We had a look at the driveshaft and both out and inner gaiters are in place, so I can’t understand how this has occurred, you can see the inner driveshaft jump when trying to take up drive, I also can’t find any other posts with this problem, my car had a new clutch fitted aprox 6 months ago under warranty, they didn’t tighten bolts properly on they flywheel which resulted in a loud banging noise, but this was eventually resolved, I can’t but help thinking they must have disturbed something, anyone have any thoughts on how this could happen, they also had the car 2 weeks ago when I had cruise control fitted, I had asked them to check engine mountings due to a intermittent strange noise ( it was like a cracking noise) they reported all was fine.
My Passat is a 2006 2.0 TDI Sport, and has only covered 49k, with full service history
Anyone had the same problem