From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishjudderjud‧der /ˈdʒʌdə $ -ər/ verb [intransitive] SHAKEif a vehicle or machine judders, it shakes violently The engine juddered to life. —judder noun [countable]→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
judder• The elevator doors juddered open when we reached the fifth floor.• Jackson took his Land Rover off the track and it juddered over 15 metres of grass.• Something was obviously wrong with the car and eventually it just juddered to a halt. 