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Title: inner cv joint keeps exploding! help!
Post by: rossbarry1 on 13 December 2011, 12:56

my inner cv went bang about a week ago, i changed it and was sweet for about 50 miles then its gone bang again, both times doing relatively low speeds not accelerating hard etc. what could cause this, the car is pretty low but jeez.  :cry:

Title: Re: inner cv joint keeps exploding! help!
Post by: danny_p on 13 December 2011, 20:06

short shaft or long shaft ?

Title: Re: inner cv joint keeps exploding! help!
Post by: EsSeX dAn on 13 December 2011, 22:22

cheap cv joint or did you get a oem one?

Title: Re: inner cv joint keeps exploding! help!
Post by: danny_p on 13 December 2011, 23:55

cheep joints on the short shaft tend to fail quick on low cars

Title: Re: inner cv joint keeps exploding! help!
Post by: AlexMozza on 15 December 2011, 17:18

Were they fitted correctly, as in the splines all the way in and greased etc??