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Old 06-14-2010, 02:03 PM
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Vibration at idle in Drive solved.

Just wanted to share something with everyone.
I was experiencing a lot of vibrations at idle in gear, stopped with
foot on the brake. This was occuring in both reverse and
drive.

I previously replaced both engine mounts and this did not resolve the problem.

This weekend I replaced the right front CV Shaft in my 2003 X5 3.0l and
now the vibration is non existent and the car drives as smooth as when it was new.
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Old 06-14-2010, 02:12 PM
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Just wanted to share something with everyone.
I was experiencing a lot of vibrations at idle in gear, stopped with
foot on the brake. This was occuring in both reverse and
drive.

I previously replaced both engine mounts and this did not resolve the problem.

This weekend I replaced the right front CV Shaft in my 2003 X5 3.0l and
now the vibration is non existent and the car drives as smooth as when it was new.
Nice find! I would have never guessed it.
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Just wanted to share something with everyone.
I was experiencing a lot of vibrations at idle in gear, stopped with
foot on the brake. This was occuring in both reverse and
drive.

I previously replaced both engine mounts and this did not resolve the problem.

This weekend I replaced the right front CV Shaft in my 2003 X5 3.0l and
now the vibration is non existent and the car drives as smooth as when it was new.
How did you know it was the right front that needed replacing???
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Very sorry, Could you put a Diagram of CV shaft from RealOEM for me?
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Just wanted to share something with everyone.
I was experiencing a lot of vibrations at idle in gear, stopped with
foot on the brake. This was occuring in both reverse and
drive.

I previously replaced both engine mounts and this did not resolve the problem.

This weekend I replaced the right front CV Shaft in my 2003 X5 3.0l and
now the vibration is non existent and the car drives as smooth as when it was new.
A bad CV joint will cause vibration when it rotates. Your vibration is when the X is stopped. I doubt it was the cause of your problem. Maybe you tighened someting while doing the job that took care of the problem.
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Old 02-03-2011, 08:44 PM
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The right front inner CV joint had a lot of play. I removed the front wheel and grabbed the shaft and moved it up and down. The inner joint has about a 1/4 of play. I went to Advanced Auto and bought the completeshaft NEW for $115 dollars, plus sockets to remove the old one and mount the new one, two different sizes.

Check your cv joints. Prior to this I had replaced all the motor mounts and the vibration persisted. The motor mount change was a waste of moeny.
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Good find. I have the same issue. Could be one of them
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A bad CV joint will cause vibration when it rotates. Your vibration is when the X is stopped. I doubt it was the cause of your problem. Maybe you tighened someting while doing the job that took care of the problem.
Sorry to revive an old thread! After changing motor mounts, front drive shaft guibo, figured out after testing that my passenger inner CV was pooched. Changed it out and it has solved my vibrations at idle just like OP also no more audible click when shifting into drive or reverse.
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Mine vibrates at idle at times but it has two new cv axles and wheel bearings so that isn't the fix for mine.

Mine is bad when the ac is off but not that bad when the ac is on as it raises the idle some. Pressing the gas pedal to raise rpm 50 to 100 rpm makes it stop vibrating completely.
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Did u use reman axles? Some people have had terrible results with those. Also hows the condition of your guibos? Have u also tried/checked out all the common things eg cleaned icv, checked motor mounts/trans mount etc?

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