Just trying to get some data for the rest of us to use.

My theory is that the front passenger side shaft is more prone to failure being its the longer of the 2 shafts.

If that's the case then 1 spare laying around or taken with you on long overland style trips would be a good idea.

Because

1. Its possible but difficult to do on the trail but with rock crawl mode you should be able to get to a shop(hopefully).

2. The town you are in wont have one around.

3. its one of the only stranded type of failures i've heard of with the LR3.

4. It can be checked for wear on the ***** inside the boot/cage and maintained(greased).


Also a worthwhile thought/mod is a potential jumper to lock the center diff if its even possible.

 

You forgot to include a check-box for "none."

Without that, you won't have full statistical data for your responses. You might find out that there are one or two instances of breakage in 100 responses or 10,000 responses. Your course action would be different in either case.

 

I have a front passenger CV that is failing. 100k miles

 

Get it fixed or fix it.

Mine went from going bad to snapping real fast. If it breaks you're not going anywhere. I bought a spare from partsgeek real cheap(under $100).

Don't call land rover. They want $700 😨

That's 2 passenger.

I also have a theory that pulling the boot checking and greasing the outer CV bearings should be done regularly.

 

Hm I posted a thread about a strange vibration at slower speeds lately - especially in round-about turns at 5-15 mph which would load up the passenger side of the vehicle.

It's a larger vibration - more like you'd get with mud tires, so that would more likely be CV than wheel bearing right? That should be a higher-speed humming type vibration.

 

Get under and grab the passenger axle shaft and shake it.. you'll know.

I recently replaced a wheel bearing but that was a straightforward diagnostic. Jack up wheel and see if the wheel has any up/down movement.. if so most likely wheel bearing if it clicks side to side I'd look at the tie rod.

 

my noise is below 2 miles an hour and not quite a consistent click, but more random clunk here and there. It does seem to be getting a little more pronounced. I have a used spare I'm going to swap in this week.

 

I've been away from the forum for a while so I just saw this. I had a front driver that was starting to wear out so I replaced it with an aftermarket unit...which failed on my first good trail run. I'm not counting that as the first issue was likely just routine maintenance and the catastrophic failure was down to cheap aftermarket parts. I later had a rear driver explode the inner CV when climbing a soft/rutted hill...got some bounce and BANG!. That was likely driver error more than anything but it was an original 130K mile part that failed. Like you, I found it difficult to drive out in low/rock crawl but I got it off the trail and within my 100 mile towing range to get her home.