A million thanks for your precious advice and encouragements! The operation was made today - and my beautiful Volvo now works silent again and seems very glad - as I am. I did not enough distance yet to fully appreciate the difference in driving as AWD.
All best wishes
Frederick

Hello, I do have exactly the same problem as what is described here. My Volvo is a 850 (1997), with all wheel drive, and there is a clanking noise, due to defective driveshaft. As I understood it might go almost as good as FWD, we were considering taking out the defective driveshaft - hoping we migh...