I've searched and come up with nothing. I'm wondering if anyone can help me out and give me a idea what happened with the car.
Last night, coming home from work, I was driving down a city street. Suddenly in 2nd gear under load there is a extremely loud clucking/clacking/banging coming from the car. At first I wasn't sure if I had run over something so I pull over to look around the car. First thing I notice is that when I ease off the gas the noise goes away. I leave it idling, get out, look around/under/pop the hood, nothing looks out of whack. No lights on the dashboard. No rough idle. So I get in and start driving again. Same thing, under load horrific clacking noise. I'm thinking that perhaps there is a hole in the exhaust up near the engine or something, but again at idle the car sounds perfectly normal. I decide to pull over and look around again. I go to pull into a parking spot and when I put the car in reverse, it starts to back up and suddenly stops. It almost felt like I hit a curb and bounced off it. SO i decide to call AAA and tow it home.
Skip to home, the tow truck driver tips the bed up to lower the car off, and same thing happens. Car is in neutral, starts rolling backwards down the ramp and then suddenly stops. I have to get in, put it in gear and really kinda force it to come off the ramp, the car is making that banging noise the whole time. We get it into the garage and the driver says the noise sounded like it was coming from the rear axle. Anyone else experienced this? I'm wondering if the diff tore itself apart, an axle broke, the clutch is FUBAR, or any other number of things that I can't figure out but I'm imagining are going to cost me thousands of dollars to fix.
Last night, coming home from work, I was driving down a city street. Suddenly in 2nd gear under load there is a extremely loud clucking/clacking/banging coming from the car. At first I wasn't sure if I had run over something so I pull over to look around the car. First thing I notice is that when I ease off the gas the noise goes away. I leave it idling, get out, look around/under/pop the hood, nothing looks out of whack. No lights on the dashboard. No rough idle. So I get in and start driving again. Same thing, under load horrific clacking noise. I'm thinking that perhaps there is a hole in the exhaust up near the engine or something, but again at idle the car sounds perfectly normal. I decide to pull over and look around again. I go to pull into a parking spot and when I put the car in reverse, it starts to back up and suddenly stops. It almost felt like I hit a curb and bounced off it. SO i decide to call AAA and tow it home.
Skip to home, the tow truck driver tips the bed up to lower the car off, and same thing happens. Car is in neutral, starts rolling backwards down the ramp and then suddenly stops. I have to get in, put it in gear and really kinda force it to come off the ramp, the car is making that banging noise the whole time. We get it into the garage and the driver says the noise sounded like it was coming from the rear axle. Anyone else experienced this? I'm wondering if the diff tore itself apart, an axle broke, the clutch is FUBAR, or any other number of things that I can't figure out but I'm imagining are going to cost me thousands of dollars to fix.