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I've noticed two issues with my 2007 Civic LX. The first is intense vibrating coming from the front passenger side of the car that is really loud inside the car and not really that noticeable from outside. This happens right when I start it up in the morning and the car is in park. Once I put it in drive, the vibrating stops completely. The vibrating is also gone when I start it up after work to drive home.

The other issue is a clicking that I hear when making sharp turns left or right (i.e. when pulling in/out of a parking space).

Do either of these sound familiar? I have ~64K miles on the car and haven't done much in terms of maintenance (outside of oil changes and tires).

Thanks.

 
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clicking sounds like a bad cv joint. see if the boots are torn.

 
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The vibration sounds like a bad fuel injector or motor mount. Does it vibrate the car physically or does the sound, sound like something vibrating? Check your exhaust manifold heat shield/ and the heat shield near the CAT coverter

 
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I really don't know that much about cars. What's a cv joint and boots?

The vibrating shakes the car pretty good. It's definitely not just a noise, but an actual shaking.

 
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Ok... no prob. Basically CV joints are the ends of your front axles. The axle connects your front tire (front wheel drive) to your transmission. There is one for each side - the CV joint sits in what's called a knuckle the knuckle is right behind your wheel hub. The wheel hub is what your tire is bolted to.

Anywaysssss so that CV joint is right behind your tire all you need to do to check it is look on the backside of the knuckle and you will see a black accordion like cone shaped boot. That is the CV boot, if its cracked you will know it, there will be grease all over the place under there. And if there is grease we know you prob. have dirt in your CV joint - just under that boot. Dirt makes it click and turn to ****. Get it fixed ASAP. The axle will have to pulled off and the boots replaced and the joints repacked with grease.

 
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this pic should help, the pink arrow is pointing the cv boot, the cv joints is under that boot.

 
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Thanks so much for the explanation/picture. I'll check that out tonight and let you know what I find.