Oh O__o

I never knew the RS was 4wd

@Old Man Hound Might try jacking up that corner so that wheel is off the ground and wiggling it. Could be a few things, but one May be worn out suspension bushings. But you might be Able to track it down that way.

you can break an axle even with CVs

usually the CV fails though

and technically the Focus RS is awd not 4wd 😉

Time on deck is Ø5:32 and vc is in use.
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@Just for youtube [NB1] that's why I asked if they had a turbo and if they put the car in gear in the opposite direction of the car's momentum - it takes a buttload of torque to break an axle
them saying the car was chonking during cornering tells me it's the cv

yea

i mean technically an axle can just fatigue

and if you're like wide open over bumps or off curbs and stuff

the mass of the wheel/tire/brake can shock an axle enough to break it doing stuff like that

well sure, but they never said anything about extraordinary circumstances like you mentioned

and they'd know it when it happens like that

well he did say he shifted it like a racecar which is pretty extraordinary

I didn't see any mention of that

and i'm wide open over bumps and stuff often and it doesn't really feel like it's beating the shit out of the drivetrain although it definitely is

http://bit.ly/31AK8Ie

unless he just meant like

grinding gears

which he might've

either way

cvs fail all the time

they're just a wear item like a bearing

as you know

so

gotcha

he might not have been doing anything special

mechanic has been working on it this morning

should be done by 130

that was in reference to me asking this

yea i've done a million of them

ohh

i thought he just meant like flying through the gears

shifting with throttle open type stuff

yeah

but yeah they just wear out like anything else pretty much

you don't necessarily have to be doing anything inappropriate to make them fail

yeah............idk

but doing inappropriate stuff will help them fail quicker

I get the feeling they didn't get the oil changed in the 3 years they had it cuz the cv boots would have shown early signs of failure