Vibration under acceleration past 80kph??


projectgtr

projectgtr

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Right guys i have a weird problem, My car recently developed a problem. When i hit the motorway once i get up to 80kph i start to get vibration, if i stop accelerating it goes, once or twice i found if i accelerate slowly past up to 120 its gone. i would consider it a major vibration, i tried changing my front wheels for a set of known balanced ones and while they were off i checked the front suspension for play. brake disks also looked fine to me. problem still there :((

Anyone have any ideas? as its only under acceleration would i be right in thinking the drive-shafts? or are these constantly spinning while driving??

Thanks in advance for any help
 
I had the same issue and it was my drive shaft inner bearings. New drive shafts for me and the problem should be gone. I explored all other possibilities alignment wheels etc etc
 
Thanks for the reply :nice:
Had a feeling it would be the drives, ive never had to replace these before do you need to do them all at the same time or just the one thats damaged? Also any ideas how much they cost?
 
I have come across the same fault and it turned out to be the inner joint on the long shaft.
Dunx
 
Drives are something i know very little about, are they rebuild-able or is it a case of new ones? Have they to be replaced in pairs?
 
I had this very issue also and again, it was the drive shaft going bad.
 
Inner c.v joint as said , it can be bought seperate to the shaft roughly €180-200 for an Ek4.

It may be worth it if your keeping the car to get new complete uprated shafts and if you can afford.
 
thanks man, much appreciated, ive to get timing belt done also and new tyres so depending on the price i might have to stick with OEM
 
projectgtr said:
did you replace one or both?? what did they cost you?
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I changed both sides and problem gone.
Mine was covered under warranty, [yes they were 100% new and about 100 miles on them when it happened--get a warranty] I think they ran about $300 - $350 USD.
 
100% the driveshafts as this happened to my old clio although not jap it shook like a basxxxd even above 50

Turned out my driveshaft had borken up and had to get it replaced. There not too expensive
 
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happened me twice first time was inner cv joint bearings went, second time the diff bearing in the box shattered and poped out my driveshaft, so could be either more than likely first reason do
 
its happened to me on a few cars one was the driveshalf, one was the inner side of the wheel was damaged and the other was a saxo which i never got to the bottom of eventually sold the car cos id had enough of it!
 
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