A6 CV joint

[cody at 5000tq.com]

Quoting Tihol Tiholov <t.tiholov at gmail.com>:

> My pet peeve - these reusable bolts, got a nice collection of them, pretty
> soon can build a garage or something.  But no more - reused them on susp.
> work more than once, no problem.  Most idiotic is when a steel bolt is
> threaded into Aluminium (VAG motor mount) - which part should be re-usable
> ask I?  I measured them - negligible difference, if any and inconsistent
> between a used and a new bolt.  Wuerth must be laughing all the way to the
> bank.
>
> To each his/her own and it's OK if you have a shop...

If you ask me I think that the only reason that the suspension and CV  
joint bolts are labeled as one-time-use-only is because of that  
pre-impregated blue locking compound that comes on the new bolts. I  
*always* re-use them unless of course they are striped or rusted to  
hell, just I add a dab of loc-tite.

-Cody Forbes