Hi,

Recently pickup up a 53 plate X type 3L V6 estate with manual transmission. After driving it yesterday I noticed that under hard acceleration if you let off the power suddenly there is a fair clonk from somewhere in the back. Any ideas what this might be?

Cheers.

 

I'd inspect the propshaft first. You'll need to get the car up on a lift or on stands.

 

Welcome to the forums. Hope you can get your issue sorted quickly.

Man, a 3.0...manual transmission....WAGON? That is really a rare beast you have. You don't see a lot of 3.0 manuals and virtually never hear about one that is a wagon.

 

OP lives in England, so there were a lot more wagons (w/manual trans) sold there.

 

Cheers, will try get a look at it. Looks very easy to replace and dirt cheap for the entire shaft and support bearing on Ebay. Technically I'm in Scotland. Don't let he local hear you call it England up here haha.

 

Even if they sold a lot more 3.0 manual wagons in the UK than over here, that number is still extremely small compared to all the other variations. It wouldn't surprise me if it was 1% or less of the total production.

 

I had in the past a similar clonk that made me crazy for days and days. Then I discovered a bear bottle under the seat that was rolling and hitting against the seat frame during braking.
Silly suggestion ? Maybe but I had that "nervous problem".

 

Sorry, should have said UK. By the way, what's a 53 plate?

 

The way car license plates are done in the UK. so a car manufactured between March 2003 and Septermber 2003 will have a number plate XX03 XXX where X is just letters. A car manufactured between September 2003 and March 2004 becomes XX53 XXX to show its 6 months newer. Once we got to 2010 the 5 become a 6. So currently brand new cars come out are XX66 XXX but next month they will change to XX17 XXX. Hopefully that makes sense it's a bit of a funny system.