I had a sudden loss of forward motion earlier. Thankfully we were still on our driveway. My initial thought was that the driveshaft had come out, again. I'd had this about a 1k ago following a replacement of the outer cv boot and I'd failed to drive the shaft fully home.

I started to look into it and found the driveshaft to be fully home in the transmission but then I found that the outer part of the driveshaft could move around considerably as if the cv joint had no internals!

I had the cv joint apart for cleaning and lubrication 1k miles ago and all looked fine, no obvious damage / wear. The car has 140k on it. Its a 2007 3.6tdv8 BTW.

There's been no obvious noises or anything suggesting something wrong.

I can't get to it until tomorrow so I'm wondering what I'll find. Is sudden failure possible? Could it somehow fall apart inside and just need reassembly (unlikely I expect). In my earlier life I'd have had a new driveshaft on its way already, but comparative retired £££ poverty but time enriched necessitates a more considered approach!

Welcome any words of wisdom!
Cheers
Chris

I've just had another wee grapple with it, without getting the tools out!

Is it possible that the driveshaft has simply come out of the cv joint? Ie is there enough travel on the spline to allow this to happen? I'm thinking there might be as there's enough travel for the inner part to detach itself!!

Always hoping for an easy fix!!

Chris