New Year - New Problem?

[Carbon-Rain]

After a night of excessive drinking I stayed at a hotel for the night. Anyway when I got into the car to leave I had to turn out of a tight parking space so had the car a full lock to the right as I pulled away there was a sort of clunking noise and it felt as if the wheel was skidding as I made the turn. Once I had straightened up and drove home there seamed to be no problems. Anyway the same happened when I reversed out of the drive later in the day today but this time i had full lock on to the left.

Anyone have any ideas where I can start looking or to what the problem might be?

 

[Addicted]

Check CV boots, may have split/come lose, does it knock?

 

[Mr R.]

Sounds to me it could be a CV joint on the drive shaft or bottom ball joint but without looking at the car its hard to say.

Scott

 

[Carbon-Rain]

Not being the most technically minded person how can I tell, is there a guide I can follow to check these things? I'm doing the learning by doing course on car maintenance and repair.

 

[MartinR]

iirc the skidding part on full lock is normal. Remember reading it in a thread not long back.

The clunking will most likely be the top hat part of the mount hitting the suspension turret, Washers normally fix that

 

[Addicted]

Have a look in the guides section or just search for the CV boot, there should be guides/pictures on what to look for.

It's basically a rubber cover around the driveshaft (coming out of gearbox), and is filled with oil - they have a habbit of coming off on the standard Renault clips, and can cause a clunking noise on full lock. Sometimes it means just reattaching the boot with a new clip (and filling it with grease first), but if it's left for too long can mean new driveshaft (iirc, not the most car-tech savvy person to be giving this advice!).

 

[Tony Hunter]

Sounds normal to me, all these cars do it on full lock. I take it you are running 205's?

Don't panic, do a search on, scrubbing on full lock, etc.

The only time my car doesn't do it, is when I've just put new tyres on the front.

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/show...ocking-noise&highlight=scrubbing+on+full+lock