2001 Volkswagen Passat vibrations during accelerating

VAGON

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2001 VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT
4 CYL
FWD
MANUAL
104,000 MILES

Hi there, my problem is that my car vibrates during accelerating, mostly felt with 3rd gear between 2000-3000rpm. Shakes even with other gears but not that notable as the 3rd one. Shakes only when accelerate, when I take my foot off the accelerator, shaking stops immediately.I don't feel the vibrations through the steering wheel or the accelerator, only through the gearbox. The gear stick shakes quite a lot and whole car as well.I asked my mechanic to check it out and he diagnosed it as it's faulty left drive-shaft, that we got changed for the new one. This solved my problem from about 30% only, car still shakes.I would really appreciate any advise as I don't want to spend any money till I'm 99% shure what it is.I understand that diagnose car without seeing it is not quite possible, but I would appreciate any clue or some test I can do to find out what that fault can cause. Thank you very much in advance Vasek

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KHLOW2008

MECHANIC
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Hi Vasek,

I believe the problem is with the driveshafts.

Did you replace the left driveshaft assy or just the CV joints?

Did you check the right side driveshaft inner joint?

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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 AT 11:37 AM

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Hi there, thank you very much for your swift reply. As I was quite unpatient, I asked my mechanic to change the other shaft as well right before I received your reply, and guess what - no vibrations whatsoever :-) So your diagnose was 100% right even without seeng the car, which just proves your top professionality :-) Thank you very much for your help once again, hope this will heps to some other members of your forum with the same problem, just a little note - no other parts had to be changed, only change of the shafts solved the problem completely :-)

Thank you Vasek