Originally posted by AccordCoup94
my cv boots were torn on my 94 accord for well over a year and i did not have any probles driving. honda made some really good axels. the only annoying thing about it was the loud clicking sound everytime i turned.
*shudders*, first of all, yes honda makes some very good axles, but they are notorious (along with all other imports) for torn/ripped cvboots. that boot is what keeps the lubrication on the joints of your axles, when the boot tears, the joint is no longer being lubricated... 2 things happen then, you get lubricant on your brakes and your joints wear out. the lubricant is hell on your pads and rotors. and the joint will eventually snap, at which point you will have one wheel no longer turning, wich causes your differential to compensate for the slippage.
so in other words, you're going nowhere fast, and all because you don't pay attention to BASIC maintence