Right front inner cv boot keeps breaking

SongAgreeable4821 | 2025-11-24 11:37 | 27 views

I've had my Seal for 15 months now, and I had the front right drive shaft replaced in May due to the inner cv boot being completely ripped open. 2 weeks ago I put winter tyres on and noticed the same cv boot broken again, has anyone else had problems with these? I've driven around 20.000km after the first replacement, car now has 52.000kms on it

Comments (4)

TinyDemon000 2025-11-24 11:43

This seems like a major fault. Like a recall level fault?

BotsTookTheOGNames 2025-11-24 11:47

Not major. My i30n has split boots that threw grease up all through the wheel wells on both sides by 60,000km. At 120 when I sold the car the shafts were still good.

TinyDemon000 2025-11-24 21:24

But twice by 52k km? Yours sounds like a problem resolved. OPs isn't fixed

SongAgreeable4821 2025-11-27 14:30

Ok so I got an update on this. The drive shaft was replaced yesterday, and the maintenance guy told me that there has been a few cases of these, and it's caused by the steel braided water line (you can see it on the photo) rubbing on the cv boot. They moved the water line out of the way (haven't checked yet how and where) and that should eliminate the issue

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