Re: Drivetrain Question

[Daun Yeagley <vwdaun@yahoo.com>]

--- Marc Getty <marc@getty.net> wrote:
> 
> A couple of times in the past two weeks I experienced a
> thumping feeling in the
> steering on my 16v. It never lasted long, just a few
> blocks at most before it
> went away. Typically this would only happen when making
> right hand turns. It was
> a quite obvious feel in the steering and a quiet sound I
> could hear, repetitive
> thumping.
> 
> Yesterday morning on my way to work I experienced this
> same thumping feeling
> three blocks from work when bearing right at a Y
> intersection. Once block later
> I lost all power and had to roll the rest of the way to
> work.

> Any ideas what could be wrong? 

> -Marc


Marc,

One of your driver's side CV joints died.  Relatively cheap
fix if you can work on it yourself.  


=====
Daun Yeagley
'80 Scirocco S, 
'82 Pickup
'85 Scirocco 8v
'88 Scirocco 16v
'91 Passat
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." - Lily Tomlin

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