bTaryag

Hi all. I'm trying to figure out what this can be. Three symptoms started more or less the same time on my 2008 Focus.

1. Car vibrates. Not the steering wheel, but the whole lower front end of the car has right-to-left vibrations, mainly at speeds up to 30 mph, mainly when accelerating, particularly bad when driving uphill.

2. When I go over a bump, sometimes there's a thump-like noise from the front right or front left of the car. This issue only exists when the car is cold, but once it's been driven for a while it doesn't happen.

3. When the car is stationary and I turn the wheel from side to side, I hear a clicking noise from under the car. (I sometimes think I also feel it from under my foot.) This only happens when the car is in drive, not in park or neutral. Like issue #2, this issue only exists when the car is cold.

Any thoughts What could this be? Is this one problem or a few separate ones?

Thanks for any help!

RichieST

iTrader: (2)

Sounds like a knackered suspension bush or balljoint. only way to check is to get it up on a ramp and have a look.

robch1983

sounds like a dead driveshaft

Heitmann

iTrader: (1)

Number 1, is exactly like what I had on my 08 focus - it was driveshafts.

shane27670

i have the same problem with shaking steering wheel and banging on front i thought mine was the lowering springs on it but ya say can be drive shafts? is this because i have lowered it its doing shafts in???

shane27670

all my bushes n joints are mint

simonmcf

iTrader: (1)

Cracked Spring if not shaft or bushes.

shane27670

new spring on too