Why does every JiffyLube place tell me my “CV boots” are cracked/torn?
It’s easy to see your Constant Velocity axles and the boots that cover the inner and outer joints when you’re beneath a car. It’s also a job that sounds impressive and urgent to customers for whom “your axles are going to fail” can easily be equated to “you are surely going to die if you don’t pay us money.” When the grease leaks out from a torn boot, the axle joint will dry out and become noisy. After a while, the axle can eventually fall apart and this can do “bad things” when you’re on the freeway, for example. You have two options: reboot the joint before it dries; replace the axle when it goes bad. In my opinion, they are both viable options, but not nearly as urgent as Big-O might have you believe.
