FAO: JMS & Other specialists - Crunchy nut steering

[Goodj]

Morning all (but particularly those with some emchanicaly nous!)

Right, a few months back, James & Tom of JMS fame informed me that I'll be in line for a new driveshaft sooner or later after a crap repair to my cv with a weedy cable tie dumped all the grease.

The parking knocking at low speed was mostly tolerable, so I've left it for the time being.

Now, however, there is so much crunching and graunching when stering I'm wonderiung if something elswe is going bad.

The steering is strill fine, fully assisted, no jumps or lumps or anything abnormal, just that it's making a really bad crunching noise. I gets worse if you spend a long time in stop-start traffic (which, bine in london, means 'all the time!') but will settle down and disappear after an amount of driving at 40+.

So:-

Shaft & CV?
Rack?
?

Oh, and ballpark costs to fix please.

Thanks all!

 

[TimR26]

When my driveshaft lost all it's grease it sounded like I was flying a Chinook not driving a Clio!

 

[Scrooge]

Morning all (but particularly those with some emchanicaly nous!)

Right, a few months back, James & Tom of JMS fame informed me that I'll be in line for a new driveshaft sooner or later after a crap repair to my cv with a weedy cable tie dumped all the grease.

The parking knocking at low speed was mostly tolerable, so I've left it for the time being.

Now, however, there is so much crunching and graunching when stering I'm wonderiung if something elswe is going bad.

The steering is strill fine, fully assisted, no jumps or lumps or anything abnormal, just that it's making a really bad crunching noise. I gets worse if you spend a long time in stop-start traffic (which, bine in london, means 'all the time!') but will settle down and disappear after an amount of driving at 40+.

So:-

Shaft & CV?
Rack?
?

Oh, and ballpark costs to fix please.

Thanks all!

Just get another shaft it don't take long to fit.

 

[Turkish]

I'd suggest sorting the known problem then worrying about further diagnosis if it's still making a noise.

 

[Goodj]

Thanks gents, going by Atouba's reply, it sounds like a new shaft is in order, but if it's still there, yes, time to get the big cheques out!

Since I have zero mechanical knowledge (or tools) then I'll be booking it in for some TLC

 

[Budgie]

Give James a ring. PM me if you need his number.

Nice easy job to change.

 

[CuppyDean]

I had this same problem years ago with a driveshaft on a saxo, lots of grinding when turning which then led to constant grinding and crunching while driving normally, it then snapped when I pulled down from a kerb, shards of metal on the inside of the wheel, cv joint destroyed and oil everywhere, my advice is to get it changed asap

 

[Goodj]

Oh, by the way, would this be an MOT fail?

 

[Fred@BTM]

could also be the PAS pump

 

[Goodj]

Really? The steering itself is as normal, just this noise.

Is the PAS pump a big job?

 

[Fred@BTM]

i'm being asked to diagnose something over the internet

 

[Goodj]

I appreciate that, I'm not asking for a quote

But, if you diagnosed a dieing PAS pump, what would you sting me for to fix it up?

ballpark figures.

I'll be booking into JMS for a new driveshaft anyway, but wouldn't mind being ready for the cost of a PAS fail.

Thanks for your help though, apprecaited.

 

[Fred@BTM]

i wasn't giving a quote

but seeing as you asked a PAS pump will be knocking on for £300ish

 

[Goodj]

FML, this crate is costing it's worth in parts!