Hello,
With the previous three new cars I've owned, all front-wheel drive, I drove them well past 100K mi. with each of them. But with all of them, I've had to replace the CV joints for the same reason: the boots dry out and crack, the grease comes out, and the dirt gets in.
Now, with my relatively new car, I wish to be able to avoid or prevent that from happening again, so I did some research on CV joint maintenance, and everything I've read talked about what to do when the boots crack. Nothing about how to prolong their life or prevent those boots from cracking.
The cost of the parts really isn't a problem, but you guys probably know, it's a very labour intensive and time consuming repaire.
What's rather preplexing to me is that I read often how some people who've put on >150K mi. on their previous cars, some having owned about 5 or 6 different cars in the past and even living in northeast, and never had a CV joint problem due to the boots cracking or failing, let alone the CV joints itself going bad.
So, my question is, does anyone have a time proven or a definitive way to prevent the boots from failing? I read how some would liberally apply silicone spray on the CV boots and other boots everytime they changed the oil. Would that be a good way to prolong the life of or prevent the boots from cracking prematurely?
Any other suggestions or insight into this would be greatly aprpciated. Thanks for your time and courtesy.