[yeager]

Greetings, all.

Interesting occurence, and perhaps those of you who are more knowledgeable can assuage my fears:

Pulling in to my house, I come from a side-road, then enter my steep (>35 degree) driveway at an acute angle. My diff clunks in protest when my wheels are turned sharply to the right and the car lurches a bit. Lots of bad noise.

Is this the normal? My fiance's car has no trouble negotiating this turn. It feels like my car doesn't even want to climb the driveway w/o locking the enter diff! Other than this, my car has no troubles with drivability, differential noise, etc..

Just curious.

Thanks for any input. Not used to a car with electronically controlled diffs, etc..

Yeager

[Xman]

Yeager, check around the site here and in yor owners manual, its well documented that the diffs will make noises, especially at slow speeds and tight turning angles. Even more so if you have the DCCD in manual mode.

[yeager]

thanks xman

yup. i was aware of the clunking diff. The first time it was in manual i about shat myselfon a tight turn.

i figured it was just the diffs working their magic, but wanted confirmation.

thanks for the reply.

[HarlanPepper]

Funny, this happened to me yesterday and it was the first time in 5000 miles I've heard a really loud clunk. Just like yours, it was a right turn into a moderately sloped driveway - just as I was straightening out, it made a muffled thud/clunk sound. I got out and thought I had jumped a curb or something, but it was just the diff.

Takes you by surprise the first time.

[GameOver]

Mine makes a clunking noise similar to those that 4WD vehicles make when on 4L + wheels turned al the way to either left or right when dccd is in manual mode on 'LOCK' a.k.a. 50/50.

I think its normal due to driveshafts similar to those in R/C cars.

Its done it since day #1

[DMikko]

the first time i pulled out of my parking space with the dccd set on manual i thought my wheel had fallen off.