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leighmcgough

leighmcgough

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Ok,

So my 2004 2.4 Honda Accord Estate has a significant wobble under acceleration from 40-70mph +... When not accelerating the car rides nice and smoothly...

Its in the garage today... non honda specialist but worked on my cars for over 5 years and very competent... plus a bit of mates rates...

So - what do you reckon the problem is and what will is cost to fix?

A digital high 5 for the nearest guess on both accounts or a digital high 10 for guessing both...
 
from what I've read (and my car does the same under hard acceleration), it'll most likely be the drive shafts, they sound fussy on these cars from what I've read

*high fiiive*
 
You have not repaired the tyres with the "magic" kit supplied?? If so could be a ball of glue going around inside the tyre, cost a new tyre or two??
 
I'll guess driveshaft inner CV joints... best to replace both. Aftermarket parts at trade cost plus 'mates rates' labour should be around £250.
 
Jon_G said:
I'll guess driveshaft inner CV joints... best to replace both. Aftermarket parts at trade cost plus 'mates rates' labour should be around £250.
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Would they not be knocking on a slow full lock turn? I know the longbridge motors did,
 
Update... My trusted mechanic checked the suspension and the usual stuff and couldn't see anything wrong...

We swapped the front and back wheel on the passenger side as the noise/wobble is more from the left.

The wobbling seems to be a little less intense and now only from 55mph+

It's now booked into Honda main dealer tomorrow to explore it further.

hope it isn't driveshafts and ill be phoning the main dealer who did them in the service history to get them to warranty the work if I can!
 
It shouldn't be necessary to replace the driveshafts. Changing the CV joints should be a reasonable thing for a decent mechanic to do.
 
Would the outer cv joints show as worn... Didn't want to start changing things based on guess work and what if and spend money unescersarily!
 
If the inner drive-shaft are worn a decent mechanic should be able to spot this by examining any play in the shafts with the wheel held. To test this (not definitive but gives the opportunity to check for obvious things)

1. Get the car up on a ramp
2. Apply the brakes but the car in neutral
3. Using a vice-grips, lock onto one of the drive shafts.
4. Rock forward and back and check for play in the shaft/bearings/etc
5. Repeat for each shaft

Did you mechanic check the compliance bushings? These can cause hopping of the suspension when accelerating hard.

(I ***ume when braking there's no problem)
 
I thought it was going to a garage with a very competent specialist mechanic... why would the work be getting done based on our guesses? I thought this was just a game!

But I'm sticking with inner CV joints... outers would be obvious from knocking on full lock. Not much else can cause vibration under acceleration.
 
It's a hybrid game... Thegarage is fixing it based on their ***essment but as always forums like to guess and identify issues based on limited information!
 
I had the same thing on mine, it was the n/s inner drive shaft, apparently these go more then the o/s ones.
 
Its booked into Honda Mountsorrell - the main dealer by me for ***essment tomorrow - I'll be having a new Civic courtesy car... looking forward to seeing what that is like - have a 57 Reg Civic for my wife so always good to drive the newer more uglier version.
 
Did you do alignment, wheel balancing etc, it could be just a slow puncture, I had a wobble under acceleration, after reading several threads on here I was starting to get worried, turned out to be a slow puncture for me thankfully. Fixed and wobble gone.... :blink:
 
Did WHeel Alignment and balancing, swapped passenger front and rear tyres around and rebalanced to check if it was the tire but it isnt as the wobble is still there...
 
How long ago were the drive shafts done?

Also to add to my earlier post, If you have different wear on both front tyres then this could lead to imbalance problems too. Changing tyres from front to back if the thread wear is also different will not help resolve the problem....
 
Surely I can't be driveshafts again then........ Let us know how you get on...... My money's on alignment balancing issue
 
Jon_G said:
Why did you take it to a Honda garage?

I'd like to revise my cost estimate up from £250 to £1000.
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Why? Because they charge me £48 for a diagnostic/fault finding service and then I'll whip it back to my garage for the repair... saves messing around. I won't get the repairs done there... :)
 
So one garage does the diagnosis, and the other one carries out the work! What if the problem isn't solved... which one will you blame?
 
Ok, so the game has changed significantly...

Honda Report - its the driveshafts that need replacing.

So I dug all my paperwork out and on the phone to dealer said they had been replaced... but as I was saying this... there in the top corner of the document... quite small and unassuming as the word 'Estimate'...

I phoned the estimate dealer and they confirmed they had never completed the work...

So... I have bought a car from a dealer which had 'new driveshafts' in the advert... and they havent been replaced...

So I have begun the process of giving him the chance to rectify it as he has mis sold the car under the Sale of goods act and false advertising and if he doesnt rectify it I will be making it a trading standards issue... He did respond to my email with a no way am I fixing the car comment but I will give him a chance to see sense before I make it very formal to him.

You know when you presume something when you buy a car and it now bites you on the ***!
 
Oh - so really no one won as I said the driveshafts had been done and they hadn't!

No digital high fives for anyone...

Anyone know the price for new driveshafts when not done by a main dealer...
 
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