The CV axle (or the Constant-Velocity joint) is critical to any vehicle's front driveline. Of course, we all know the engine burns fuel to produce power, and the transmission sends the engine's power ...

Q: My lube shop tells me one of my car’s CV boots is split and needs to be replaced. I wonder if this can keep a month until my handy brother returns from overseas. He’s never done a CV boot but is ...

Conventional wisdom typically sets no time or mileage interval to replace drive-axle boots, which are more commonly known as CV-joint boots (“CV” being short for “constant velocity”). Although they ...

That clicking noise that your front-wheel-drive car makes as you accelerate around low-speed righthand corners has been getting a little louder for weeks. One afternoon, just as you pull out of the ...

An axle may seem simple — it helps connect a wheel to the rest of your car and get that wheel spinning. However, they can be more complicated than you might think, and they’re critical to keeping your ...

Q I was just told by my lube shop that one of my car s CV boots is split and needs to be replaced. They showed me how it was oozing grease and said the expensive CV joint inside would wear out quickly ...

Q: I have an older Lincoln Navigator and it has a CV boot that is leaking grease. I took it to two shops and they both want to replace the axle, not the boot. Is this necessary? A: Making some ...

Yearly maintenance is an absolute must for any car. You never know when something will go wrong with your vehicle, and some precautions will go a long way to help you avoid highly sizable repair costs ...