Hi All

Just to introduce myself

I recently took the plunge and bought a 2004 S60 D5 SE - Really impressed and a great car - It is high mileage (138000) but seems to drive like new except for this below...............

I have already got some great tips from this site and am trying to sort out an annoying noise that seems to be coming from the O/S front - It is like a whining noise / grumble and seems worst at 5-40 mph. When you have been driving for a while, and more after a motorway run, it seems to have a vibration / grinding noise that I can feel through the floor.

I changed the wheel bearing and guess what - the bl***y noise is still there, although somehow the car 'feels' smoother

Anyway I took the engine cover off underneath, and put a long thin screwdriver on the bearing carrier for the drive shaft. When I spin the wheel I can hear a clicking noise from the carrier bearing. I put the screwdriver on the gearbox where the driveshaft goes in and there is no noise, so I am guessing the carrier bearing is worn out?

I suppose I will have to change the driveshaft and hope for the best - but are these a fairly common item to wear or am I just unlucky?

I would appriciate any thoughts and any advice and any locations I can source a driveshaft or bearing from

Thanks

 

At 138k miles you may as well replace the drive shaft as you will need to replace the outer boot in the near future. I changed both of my drive shafts at 90k miles with rebuilt units for $140 a piece as the boots were torn and the right one (as it turned out) was giving the car an awful vibration.

 

At 90k miles, a torn cv boot and vibration caused by axle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's another classic example of Volvo poor quality parts.

 

I just changed both axles on my '01 S60 T5 due to a vibration when turning right, and it's a NEW CAR.

Steering is now rock steady (hands-off, it would dart left/right with any road irregularity). No road noise now (or what I THOUGHT was road noise-must have been the right axle carrier bearing). The car rides better (harshness must have been CV joints not compressing/expanding freely with suspension compression).

The strange thing was BOTH axles "felt" fine off the car. No play in CV joints, no apparent binding or anything.

I couldn't find new axles locally, so I bought lifetime warranty remanufactured units from O'Reilly for $60/each w/ exchange. So far so good.

The entire job took me under 3 hours (the second side took only one hour since I had the procedure "down cold") w/ hand tools on jack stands.

I am one happy S60 owner again!

Bob