Damn CV Boots (91 200) (Rant)

[Darrell Adams]

after 5 scirocco's, 3 GTi's, 1 Corrado and an Audi, I only remember
replacing about 3 CV boots.

car ages:
'77 Scirocco   bought around '93
'79 Scirocco   bought around '90 (I think i did a cv boot)
'80 Scirocco S bought around '95
'81 Scirocco S bought around '93
'83 GTi        bought around '95 (I think i did a cv boot)
'84 GTi        bought around '95
'86 16V Scirocco    bought around '96
'89 90 Quattro bought around '01
'90 G60        bought around '98 (replaced CV because cracked boot)
'96 GTi        bought around '98

(add some lee-way for faulty memory)

had a '79 ford pinto, I think I had 4-5 CV boots crack/rip/shred

oh, and I can't forget the '69 SAAB 95 that was my moms car when I was a
wee tyke. I drove that after high school till I damaged the engine due to
lack of oil after oil filter failure on the hiway (my bad) I belive every
boot was original and I never saw a crack till the car was disposed of in
about '94

I don't think it's 'euro' cars that are a problem.
do you spray tyre, brake cleaner on your car? is there some other chemical
getting on the CV boots making them brittle? road de-ice? gremlins? evil
spirits?

maybe just have the boots exorsized?


>Message: 13
>Reply-To: "Ryan Gemmill" <RIG7881 at hotmail.com>
>From: "Ryan Gemmill" <Gemmill at mail.flashmail.com>
>To: <Quattro at audifans.com>
>Subject: Damn CV Boots (91 200) (Rant)
>Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 20:12:58 -0400
>
>Quats...
>
>Today I noticed that my left cv boot is cracked once again. I mean, I've
>only replaced each of these about 10 times.  Ok, maybe that's an
>exagerration, but still these things are CONSTANTLY cracking and spewing
>their guts out to let the joint get nice and dry. And why does it seem
that
>it is always german, or really european cars that have this problem...
I've
>seen Chevy's that go 50,000 miles without this happening. It's ludacris.
>
>Anyway... does anybody have a better solution than just replacing them? I
>don't know how to do it myself or I'd try it; I'm mostly worried about
>screwing something up.
>
>That's all... thanks for the rant. Oh, car in question is a 1991 200 fwd.
>
>Take care,
>Ryan Gemmill
>91 200
>

Darrell Adams
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