sonofbuster Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 i dropped off the kiddo at daycare this morning and when i got back in the car and started it up, i got a faint wisp of smoke out of the AC vents and something-burning smell. it faded quickly and i drove to work (not very far) and checked under the hood. nothing out of the ordinary except glops of dark goo surrounding what i believe to be the CV boot on the passenger front side. i assume the grease had splattered on the exhaust or something and burned off causing the smell. this just started today so any chance i can just bandaid the boot for a while or is there more to it? thanks for the advice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msmithmmx Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 (edited) This is just my experience, I have gone 50K miles with a completly torn boot. If you took care of it soon you would only need to have the boot replaced. If you let it go the axle might need to be replaced. You need to weigh the risk. Edited June 9, 2011 by msmithmmx spelling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idosubaru Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 (edited) not a big deal. i've also put 50,000 miles on torn front cv boots a bunch of times and 100,000 miles on the rears. i dont' recommend it, i'm just saying you have time. offroad, dirt, sand, and harsh winter stuff (like the coal fragments they throw in the mountains of WV will eat axles alive) will wear them quickly though. otherwise once you start hearing noise/feeling vibration then that's an immediate sign you need to do something - but in my experience that usually takes a long time. sometimes just a few thousand miles, but usually 10's of thousands of miles for normal daily driver duty vehicles. i drove to colorado and back (4,000 miles) with my front boots torn. we were off roading and it was vibrating like crazy due to the loss of grease, i was stuffing grease in by hand to get back the 2,000 miles home. when i did, i rebooted both boots and they've been fine ever since. so yeah - the original subaru axles are very robust. i don't recommend that, i'm just saying you have plenty of time to plan a proper repair. *** be SURE to have your existing axles rebooted. do not let anyone replace the axle. aftermarket axles are terribly unreliable and cause lots of issues (you can find dozens of threads here about it). rebooting the original Subaru axles is the way to go. Edited June 9, 2011 by grossgary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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