My friend's father opened a CV axle repair shop a while back; he rebuilt his axles with Rockford boots. At the time I had a Scirocco and another friend had a MK1 GTI. We both were in need of new boots and purchased Rockford boots from above-mentioned friend's father. 4 of the 8 total boots we purchased failed after about 2 months on our vehicles. I could understand if one boot failed, but 50% is a bit high. Needless to say, I would never buy Rockford again. I have had good luck with brands like Febi-Bilstein and Meistersatz. -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of TC Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 1:11 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Rockford cv boots opinions looks like 1 outer cv joint is about to go ... it a no brainer use a lobro joint but there are a number of boot kits with many different qualities so i looked around a bit & saw a number of good comments about the rockford dura boot http://www.rockfordcv.com/Volkswagen_bootkits.htm 814-21 but here they say http://www.rockfordcv.com/PDF%20Downloads/Boot_Assemblies.PDF 335-3 2 questions 1) any one with experience with these boots I do see germansupply sell these but I dont see em on any of the list vendor sites ? 2) anyone know what the right boot model is ? |
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