Advice.. need answers. Worried...

[Bluevitz-rs]

Originally Posted by willygoodness

my understanding is. hard accelerating while turning sharply can 'speed' (ha) up wear and tear and maybe more if the roads are a bit bumpy might make it worse..?

also clutch kicking burns clutches out ohhh so quick :(

with the redlining.... check the distributor cap for any damage on the inside of the cap, depending on how hard you hit the limiter.

Um... Ok.

There is no distributor...


Turning you wheels at a sharp angle and spinning your tires will KILL the CV joints. Also, check the boot around the CV for a tear and grease inside your rim and fender liner.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by Bluevitz-rs

Um... Ok.

There is no distributor...


Turning you wheels at a sharp angle and spinning your tires will KILL the CV joints. Also, check the boot around the CV for a tear and grease inside your rim and fender liner.

I've always thought that the quality and thickness of the rubber used for the CV boots on the Yaris must be pretty good as I don't notice many people complaining on Yarisworld about it. I found the quality of the original boots and the OEM replacements for the Volkswagen GTI to be substandard. I didn't stop having problems with that aspect of the GTI until I bought a CV boot kit to be used if you couldn't jack/elevate your car. It formed a somewhat harder shell and was composed of two halves to be glued together (on each side of the car) after being put around the joint. I did the repair myself and I'd check it periodically to make sure the glue was holding (by crawling under the car) and I didn't have any CV joint issues after that. The material the boots in this kit were constructed of proved much more durable than the Volkswagen product.