Split type cv boots

Quinny · Post by **Quinny** » Sun Dec 08, 2013 4:52 pm

No not a problem on my 406, but the type of car is irrelevant anyhow.

My wife's Xsara HDi (No getting away from French stuff.) has a cv boot that has come away from the cv joint end, insofar as it is now no longer in one piece around the joint end, and therefore needs changing. As it's such a pain in the arse job to remove the hub and joint, all for the sake of a piece of rubber, has anyone used one of the cv boots that come split, that you join together, and have you had any success or failure with it?

davew · Post by **davew** » Sun Dec 08, 2013 5:18 pm

i used one of them years ago and it was rubbish, i would only use a proper one does mean taking of the driveshaft but it's not that difficult.

Post by **steve_earwig** » Sun Dec 08, 2013 5:36 pm

I used one on an ashtray about 15 years ago, it was just to put off doing the job properly until I had the time to take the car off the road so I think it was only on there a couple of months but it was still intact when I changed it.

Just Googling, looks like they're all nut & bolt on ebay, mine was done up with superglue.

Quinny · Post by **Quinny** » Sun Dec 08, 2013 5:46 pm

It's the superglue type one I'm looking at for the wife's Xsara.

It's split at the cv joint end, and to be honest, I can't be bothered to take off the driveshaft and cv joint to get a new one on, that's why I thought I'd ask about the superglue type.

Post by **steve_earwig** » Sun Dec 08, 2013 5:54 pm

You could give it a try but I wouldn't trust it forever

lozz · Post by **lozz** » Sun Dec 08, 2013 7:04 pm

Re: Split type cv boots

they will squeeze a car through mot if they are glued properly,
but they don't last long.

id treat them as a Bodge rather than apropper repair,
for what they cost ithink its best to put real ones on. so only any good if your in a rush for mot

jasper5 · Post by **jasper5** » Tue Dec 10, 2013 4:08 pm

Fitting split type cv boots is a total waste of time and energy!

lozz · Post by **lozz** » Tue Dec 10, 2013 4:23 pm

verytrue,

jonny81191 · Post by **jonny81191** » Tue Dec 10, 2013 5:29 pm

So it's the outer end that's gone? It's not really that bad a job to access it "properly", it requires 2 people to fit the stretch type boot though, it's a job of many innuendos

dirtydirtydiesel · Post by **dirtydirtydiesel** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 7:25 pm

jasper5 wrote:Fitting split type cv boots is a total waste of time and energy!

+1

,Don't waste your money or the time.
By the time you've finshed fafing about you could have done the job properly anyway

Post by **steve_earwig** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 9:27 pm

I remember it as quite a quick job... As I said I didn't have the time (or the tools, now I come to think about it) to do it properly, I was more interested in keeping the crap out until I did but you're right, it's no substitute for the real thing. It was the first time I'd done a cv boot, I've probably done half a dozen since (I'll bet that sounds like nothing to quite a few here

) but I've never even thought about using another.

I was hoping that perhaps they'd improved. Ah well.