Thread: grinding in the drive train
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Old 06-15-2016, 05:04 PM
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Sounds like striped splines on the rear end of the front drive shaft - not an unknown issue with this age and generation of X5...

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The fix is to either replace the entire driveshaft or to weld a new spline to the end...

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