Polibon

I think I will try a new drive shaft and see if it makes any difference. What does it mean when people say these cars don't like pattern parts? Does the car whinge through the speakers? Do they fail in a short time? CV's usually go from contamination. I have replaced several on previous cars and not had an issue with pattern parts. At least it should, improve, fix it, or stay the same, and any of those will tell me something. The Honda one is £400, a pattern one at my local motor factor is £120 and the same brand unit is for sale online for £75 and it comes with 3 years warranty. Bit of a no-contest. Still concerned it may not fix the problem though. Interesting you mention tyres; I could swap the Kenda's for the Pirelli/Goodyear set. Sadly I found the spare is a brand new Michelin on an alloy rim. Tempted to swap that for one of the fronts and see what changes. Too many variables when you get a new old car.

I just bought an identical car 2006 model 2.2 CDTi last week, and have discovered it has a violent shudder which comes on at 63mph (yes, that exactly) and makes the car feel like if I go any faster it w,ill hurl itself off the road. I call it my speed limiter. But it's a nuisance as it means I am tangled up lorries and get ridiculed by white van drivers. I've had the tyres balanced; no difference at all. The garage insisted tracking wouldn't do that. Been on several other Honda forums (sorry, didn't see this one until now) and some say engine mounts, others insist on the left (nearside) driveshaft and CV joints requiring replacement. So I was about to invest in a new driveshaft go looking for engine mounts when I read this thread. My car has 140k on the clock and I just paid not much more than the figure Dannyk has spent getting nowhere. I see lots of threads where people complain of this issue, but never come back and say they fixed it, or how they did it. I test drove several similar CR-V's but sadly mine was only on small roads so never got up that fast. Others I tested on dual carridgeways made it to 70 just fine, smooth as silk. My car drives beautifully otherwise, I just took it out for another diagnostic run. Brakes: work smoothly (it has new pads all round) form 30 and even an emergency stop doesn't make them chatter, so I'm ruling out the discs being warped. On a smooth stretch of tarmac the shudder isn't as pronounced, and it reduces (almost goes) on a sweeping left hand curve, but traffic meant I couldn't check a right hand turn. The whole car feels jumpy and I wouldn't want to have to make an evasive manoeuvre at that speed. I haven't had the belly pan off yet; hope to do that tomorrow when doing an oil change after a run, so if anyone has suggestions of what to look for or poke at. The tyres are ones I've never heard of at the front Kenda Komet made in China, but it has a Pirelli and a Goodyear on the back. All have about 4mm of tread, so I don't really want to replace them yet. Any thoughts or suggests appreciated. Paul