Well My bro was driving my car to school about two weeks ago. He took a turn doing 80mph on the freeway (I got apexi WS) and he hit a bump in the cement and it made the car hop and almost hit the wall. Thats the story heres the problem. (ohh btw he is never driving my car again.) ahah


So now when im driving and I turn the wheel slighty to the right I here a *click click click click click* untill I either straighten out the wheels or I turn to the left. (He made a right hand turn btw)

So I know something got messed up when he hit that bump that fast, but I don't know what. Any opinions etc are welecome cause I want to know what this is before something happens thats going to cost me alot of $$.

Thanks for your help.

 

sounds like a cv boot

 

Yeah, you probably tore the CV boot. They cost like $80 or so to replace I think.

 

That's what I was thinking

 

ok, say its a CV boot, is it cool to drive around with it tore for a while ? maybe like a week or two ? and how hard is it to replace ?

$80 is that from honda ?

Sorry for all the questions.

 

You can drive on a bad CV Boot for a little while but it isn't really sugfested since water and grime will collect and end up causing the joints to wear out faster, leading to possible failure.

I have driven on them before with no problems but I always ended up replacing the CVs (actually the shafts its easier and cheaper).

 

Thats what I did when mine went, I just replaced the entire shaft. Def cheaper

 

How hard is it to replace the shaft? and how much ?

You guys do it yourself, or pay someone to do it ? and if you payed someone how much was labor?

Thanks.

 

dont worry about it. i was driving with bad cv boots (left and right) for a little more than a year and i did not have any problems, and i dont drive like grandma..

 

I let Honda do it last year before I got interested in this DIY stuff, but it only ended up being like 300 something parts and labor, somewhere in that price range. But I dont think it would be to difficult to diy