http://www.btinternet.com/~david.bailey19/home.page1.htm Just seen this !!!! What do you all think Cheers David
Well saying that, it has only done 70k and usually most mechanical parts have to be tested to last about 100k if its to do with chassis, apart from brakes etc. Scary stuff though if it is a generic fault through the entire batch.
yeah def, one of our lot was hammering his rallye at our trackday earlier. the track has, lets just say, minimum observer protection!! Hate to think what might have been Edited by: Seraph
Its about two years old that article and ive never heard of anything even similar happening to any Rallye or any other golf like that.
Yeah tbh i have circulated in VW circles for over 5 yrs now. Never heard or seen anything like that before. Dont u think someone on here or vortex etc would have had experience like this considering most of us drive our cars quite hard and lots of us has owned numerous volkswagens or audi's.
yeah true dubdude i think ive only heard of one guy (on pvw forum) who this happened to,and thinking back the guy in the article could be him? neil.
Bit vague in my opinion. It's covered 70k, theres nothing there to say if during its servicing it was necessary to remove the shaft on that side and somebody was a little to eager with no.1 adjusting tool Just re-ead it, over tightened hub nut? Edited by: stew72
How does he know it failed because of fatigue?? Has he had it fatigue tested after?? So many questions he doesnt answer. More likely to be 1 guy very p1ssed off about his car after it broke maybe because something has hit it some time in its life and damaged the CV joint. My mates old scirroco had a crack right across its front wishbone, this doesnt mean that every vw wishbone will fail.
yeah, seems like a one-off to me....and who knows if the car had took a wack against a kerb at some point?! nothing for anyone to worry about anyway.
read again, he did have a passenger. he says and i quote he was right first time. hardly a common incident
seems far fetched to be classed as a weakness in a batch of rallyes. When quality tests occur and recalls occur you need to have a certain amount of data to conclude that there is indeed a fault with the component within a batch. One off incidents cannot result in a general consensus that this is a weakspot in a car as one offs to occur. How do we know he hadnt had a smash before, or the previous owner crash repairing it? what about before it was imported, know one really knows for sure. It reminds me of the great 'timing chain' debate in the e30 m3 world about it giving in at 100kmiles....what a load of tosh...again started by a company with one isolated incident...,..to scare M3 owners Just read about the accident, he had to swerve to avoid an on coming car, so how do we know that didnt cause the driveshaft to snap?! He had to swerve which would cause a sudden switch of weight in the opposite direction and this may have cause one wheel to not grip the road correctly, and then cause a shaft to snap... a lot out of nothing IMO Its his opinion that this weakness caused his car to be written off, but imo he has no evidence really, to prove this! Edited by: CabrioRags
"The rotation of the shaft in forward motion is anti -clockwise, this shows the typical sign of FATIGUE failure." Is that not the O/S/R wheel which would travel in a clockwise direction? I suspect this is most likely caused by people not using the correct torque settings on the driveshaft.
Having killed enough VW driveshafts myself, I'd say that the owner, or a previous owner, was pretty keen on launching his rallye hard. Simple as that. Its failed at a weak point in the design of the typical vw shafts; polo G40s suffer from it a lot, putting a lot of power through pretty small shafts of the same design. Compare the point of failure to the known weakness detailed for the G40 driveshaft here Also, you'd think the photos would be a little better wouldn't you
