Hi,
Wifes had a Y reg 1.9D Doblo for over 6 years and its been a joy.
She rang me couple of days ago to come help her as car steering had gone funny.
I drove it home and although it drove, it was erratic when turning, felt like it wanted to go in its own direction and was making some nasty clunks. Basically undriveable.
I've got it on axle stands, steering seems fine, but looks like the rear gearbox mount is worn.
Driveshaft, rotate a wheel and you hear from where it goes into gearbox, a massive grind and every 360 degrees a noise as though a piece of metal is dropping.
You can spin a wheel and the opposite wheel will not spin but the 180 degrees they seem to catch and both spin.
Wife now tells me its been jumping out of 3rd now and again over the last few weeks, probably 1 or 2 times a day. Hoping thats just to-do with the gearbox mount.
Could it be worse than just the driveshaft? Wife's getting a new car but I was going to take the doblo, but don't want to spend much money on her.
I've got a video of the driveshaft turning.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xhtj1zcd43dylet/x_pQS027dN/Doblo
Cheers
Kev..
Wifes had a Y reg 1.9D Doblo for over 6 years and its been a joy.
She rang me couple of days ago to come help her as car steering had gone funny.
I drove it home and although it drove, it was erratic when turning, felt like it wanted to go in its own direction and was making some nasty clunks. Basically undriveable.
I've got it on axle stands, steering seems fine, but looks like the rear gearbox mount is worn.
Driveshaft, rotate a wheel and you hear from where it goes into gearbox, a massive grind and every 360 degrees a noise as though a piece of metal is dropping.
You can spin a wheel and the opposite wheel will not spin but the 180 degrees they seem to catch and both spin.
Wife now tells me its been jumping out of 3rd now and again over the last few weeks, probably 1 or 2 times a day. Hoping thats just to-do with the gearbox mount.
Could it be worse than just the driveshaft? Wife's getting a new car but I was going to take the doblo, but don't want to spend much money on her.
I've got a video of the driveshaft turning.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xhtj1zcd43dylet/x_pQS027dN/Doblo
Cheers
Kev..
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