MH>My daughter took her car to a local mechanic and explained what it was doing   
   MH>with regards to lots of noise while driving and the shuttering under light   
   MH>excelleration and they told her it was the transmission.  I totally disagree   
   MH>being I drove the car, know the noise is not being caused by the transmissio   
   MH>and the shuttering is due to bad joints of some sort in the CV axle (probabl   
   MH>the inner part).   
      
   MH>Anyway, was wondering what others think about this one here?  BTW, the mecha   
   MH>never even looked at her car or drove it.   
      
   I say GET ANOTHER Mechanic. HE is trying to rip you off.   
   Another test you can do on the CV Joints is to find and empty parking   
   lot and acellerate using various steering angles. IF the noise inc   
   eases with increasing steering angles it is most likely a CV as the more   
   angle they have on them under power the higher the stress that is placed   
   o nthe joint. A bad one gets very noisy in a tight powered turn when   
   highly worn. I had that noise in one of the wifes car and I ignored it   
   until one day it broke when she was trying to make a U Turn. Luckly it   
   happened in the street in front of the house.  :-) :-)   
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