Was driving the wagon the other day when there was a loud boom and the car stopped driving. AAA got me home, a little troubleshooting and it looked like a bad drive axle CV joint. Getting it apart, in fact the axle snapped in half. In the pics below, you can see older rust on the rotational shear and really explains the loud boom.
Axles are crazy cheap and easy to put in, but I think the transmission grenaded in some way when the axle snapped. You can put the car in R, N, D, 3, 2 and everything works as expected, or at least with the car stationary and the drive axle off.
When you try to put it back into park, you get a loud metallic flap like a card in bike spokes as something is slowing down the drive shaft. If you let the car sit in N for a second and then quickly put into Park, there's very little, if any, of this noise.
Anyone every hear a sound like that? Looks like I have a nice parts car now.
