faith20879@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I believe they are for the driveshaft. A couple of months ago, I took
> the car in for the 75,000 mile checkup and the dealer said the boots
> were a little cracked and needed to be replaced pretty soon. I then
> called around and found this garage that charges a little less. They
> are the mechanic division of a well known body shop in my area.
ok, but this should not cause burning rubber smell.
my thoughts are that tegger is probably correct, a slipping accessory
belt can indeed be the cause of this smell. but i'm still suspicious of
the necessity of the work you had done because if it was not done right,
given that one of the driveshaft boots is near the exhaust, a driveshaft
may not be seated correctly and be touching and burning.
my caution is because the outer driveshaft boots do indeed crack, but
the inner ones hardly ever. in fact, i have 18 year old oem driveshafts
in my crx, and while the outer boots have been changed, the inner ones
are still great, and there is no reason to compromise them unless
they're broken in some way. they don't have to flex much in use so they
don't crack the same way as the outer joint boots. they never get
exposed to the sun either. for a shop to recommend the inner boots as
well as the outer is mostly inexpert job creation.
>
> Thanks,
> Faith
>
>> what kind of boots? �driveshaft? �steering rack? �suspension
joint?
>> spark plug? �more im****tantly, what kind of mechanic and what was the
>> problem?
>
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