[Darren O]

Ive got a 56 plate primastar a couple of days ago i started to get a bad noise from the van when iam turning or reversing it sounds like when you see a ship running aground that scraping noise you here thats about the best i can describe it.When i took it to my local garage the guy could here the noise when i drove in they put it up on the ramps took the wheels off spent a couple of hours trying to find the problem but said everything looks fine and they dont know were its coming from thought  thats pretty crap for a garage so iam taking it to another garage tomorow anybody any ideas what the problem could be ive got a carpet cleaning truckmount in the back to cheers Darren.

[dazzy]

Sounds to me like one of the drive shaft universal joints binding when you are turning. which means its worn out, being in reverse means the joint is going backwards which would cause it to bind as well. Might be tricky to spot when the van is on a lift with the wheel off as there is no weight on the wheel assemble and on torque going through the drive shaft its self as its not turning, there would be a lot of load going through the drive shaft when driving and even more going through the universal joint when turning. Hope this might shed some light in what might be going on there

[Darren O]

Cheers mate

[jim mca]

Darren
 you could try one of the traffic or vivario forums 

[Darren O]

Jim iam going to a garage first thing in the morning anyway iam more pi$$ed of with my local garage that ive spent thousands with didnt have a clue what was wrong with it.

[tony bish]

http://www.renaultforums.co.uk/ they have an area that deals with other makes .I have posted many times about my nissan primastar