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discomummy:
Hi,

driving along the A6 to loughborough, all of a sudden there was a horrible juddering noise, then BANG and lots of smoke from under the bonnet.

I pulled over VERY QUICKLY and got out to find a trail of fluid on the road and the propshaft hanging down under the car.  

first phone call to husband  - very upset, car has blown up, engine destroyed, just got out with life, you know the story!

second phone call to recovery people - need a large towtruck!!

third phone call to garage

it appears that the universal joint has given way and also put a hole in the transfer casing.  Beast is now with garage, who will receive lots of phone calls from me (average usually one per hour) asking what is happening!!!

now awaiting to hear from the garage - we were due to go to france on friday in the disco - hoping with all fingers, toes, legs & arms crossed that it will be ok.

sigh,

ela

colintandy:
hi that happend to me when took wife and kids on the spur of the moment trip out my front prop went same way but put a hole in my gearbox sump mines auto 200 tdi and alspo flattend the dipstick for checking the gear box oil i was doin 65 at the time it was like i had just driven over a land mine not that i know or want to know what thats like i was so cross cos i could not even disconect the prop from vehicle and drive back in diff lock cos the hole in gearbox left me with no oil in it and i did not want to risk further damage was a nice winters evening that ended with a tow truck and a I HATE YOUR TRUCK from the wife i had 3 dogs in vehicle at time and the tow truck driver was not ammussed being licked by them in his earhole its like that advert on tv for a credit card   it cunjors up bad memories ... feel for you its not funny  regards colin

davidlandy:
Ouch!

I blew a front UJ , and cos I was only going slow  at the time it only dented my sump by the filler plug - could had been much worse.

Matt_H:
total worst case scenario - new transfer box and fitting £800, new prop and fitting £100.  Ok so it's quite a lot of money but look on the bright side it could have been much much worse!

Matthew

beast5680:
where i used to work we had a JCB fastrac in that dropped the front prop, it dug in the road and took the transmission clean off the engine and dumped the whole lot in the road :shock:

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