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Jethro_uk writes:
On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 23:06:03 +0000, Andrew Gabriel wrote:

Probably 20 years ago, I drove my Ford Fiesta through some rather deep
water. It washed some grit into one of the front CV joints, which made a
nasty noise immediately afterwards, and had to be replaced a few months
later.

Didn't seize as you were going along throwing the car into a skid ?

Which is what I was told could happen if a stone got into the CV joint.
Sounded ******** then, and ******** now.

Happened to my mum driving a mini many decades ago.
Fortunately a quiet country road where you couldn't
do more than about 20MPH up a windy steep hill, and
it lurched off the road and drove up the trunk of a
tree which was wider than the car.
No damage done - just reversed back down the tree,
and drove off up the road again. Apparently, it had
been making a noise for a while and it could be felt
through the steering, but that incident fixed it.

Later, it became part of the MoT test. My own mini
used to fail on the rubber boot split. At the time,
it was like 40p for a new boot, and £25 to fit it
(a lot at the time). I remember saying, couldn't they
find better quality boots for a quid?

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Andrew Gabriel
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