Not to mention NAPA provides a lifetime warranty on their axles so youll never buy them again. Ive been through three sets having only bought one.
-----Original Message----- From: Doug Curtis [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 7:18 AM To: Adam Frank; [email protected] Subject: RE: [a2-16v-list] Jetta Broke :) Go to NAPA and buy two new shafts. And then, do it yourself. It will be way cheaper. You will get 4 new CV joints at the price of. Seems to me that the shafts were around $70 each. You have to remove the shafts to replace the joints, so why take the time to rebuild the joints when something could be messed up (cage, shaft). Remember that your time is worth something. -----Original Message----- From: Adam Frank [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 5:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [a2-16v-list] Jetta Broke :) Note to all. When driving a lowered car, its very hard to tell when your CV joints are going bad. Well, my Jetta is officially retired until this summer. Washed, cleaned out, put under a carport. Driving around 3 weeks ago, I was pulling out to make a turn and heard a loud 'snap' kinda like a dry tree branch breaking and then began to get a very loud sickening knock coming from the front drivers side... im pretty sure the CV joint has actually cracked though. When I got it home and pushed it up my driveway, I heard all kinds of creaks and pops coming from the same spot. I never had a warning, no sound, no humm, no nothin to let me know the joint was tired. So needless to say, its parked till dry weather and money permits me to find out how extensive the damage was. Till then, Im just pray to god that the spline isn't damaged. The car is lowered 1.25" and im using front and rear neuspeed sway bars. does the extra ridgedness added by the sway bars put any extra strain on the front end in a way that could cause this? Any of you ever have this happen before? -Adam _______________________________________________ a2-16v-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list For list archives, see listinfo link above. _______________________________________________ a2-16v-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list For list archives, see listinfo link above
