Drive shaft problems

[JacF]

Hi all,

Our 2018 Ford Tourneo Custom was making a knocking sound recently. The garage has just told us the drive shaft needs replacing...is this normal after 61,000 miles reasonable driving???? Anyone else had similar experience?

[Luke4efc]

I'd say it's pretty unusual for them to fail that early, especially with what seems like mostly motorway miles?

Only reason I could think of is the van spends most of its time being overloaded and put too much stress on the shafts? Bit of a long shot though lol.

[JacF]

Thanks Luke. What you say makes sense...it has spent two years as a taxi.

[TomsFocus]

I know there's an obesity epidemic but surely a taxi shouldn't be over weight?

If that's 61k of stop start town driving in 2 years then I'd suggest that's pretty hard on driveshafts tbh.

[Luke4efc]

Yes I'm not sure a Taxi full of Razor Ruddocks would put it overweight. I was thinking someone may have used it to haul hardcore around.

Like Tom said 60k miles of town driving plus a van full of Razor Ruddocks would be pretty hard wearing on the shafts.

I'm not sure why I used Razor Ruddock, gues he was the first big lad I could think of 🤷‍♂️😂

[TomsFocus]

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