Major issue?

[denbleezy]

I was washing my car and saw this under. Im not sure if this is a problem that needs to be fix? Help!

Front Passenger Wheel

[WindyCityPilot]

Is the boot torn? If it is not torn see if you can move the rubber around so it pops back into it's normal shape. Should not be a problem as long as the rubber boot is not torn.

[denbleezy]

no i dont think its torn. but its so hard to pop it back to its place. but ill try taking off the wheel itself later and see. but what if the rubber boot is torn?

[ganda1f]

If it is torn, the CV joint may be contaminated with water, salt, dirt. Quite a bit of the grease in the joint could have been thrown out of the boot. Look around, on the wheel and other places where it might have been thrown. Dirt damages the joint pretty quickly, so the axle will likely need replacement. That is the worst case scenario, that is if the boot has been torn long enough to get severely contaminated.

That being said, I had mine outer joint boot (same as yours) cracked for about a week or two, roughly 300km. Granted, this was on a different car, 7th gen Corolla with 150000km, but my point is that a damaged boot does not necessarily mean disaster right away. The boot was not torn wide open but it cracked on the side. I noticed some grease got thrown on the inside of the wheel. I took off the axle and upon inspection, the joint did not show scoring etc, so I just cleaned it thoroughly, flushed it with brake cleaner. Put a new boot on, new grease, back on car. That was 4 years ago, and I put 120.000km on it since. No problems.

[joeylgarcia]

Originally Posted by denbleezy

I was washing my car and saw this under. Im not sure if this is a problem that needs to be fix? Help!

Front Passenger Wheel

yes have it fixed.

[remusrm]

mine was even less torn and was changed just 2 weeks ago... it was leaking

[ZO6_Vette]

Looks like the cv joint was pulled out and not put back correctly.
An easy fix is to cut the small clamp on the thin side spin the boot until the twist is removed and install a new clamp.

[Zembonez]

The boot looks twisted.

[v8eaterWRX]

LOL its just the boot. If it was torn there would be a military green looking grease everywhere, so its just tweaked. Even if it were torn, it could still be regreased and a new boot put on. This happened on my Subaru from my external wastegate dump tube heating it up and making it dry rot. I drove around on it for 3 weeks before I got around to regreasing and putting the new boot on and it was fine for two years (40k+ miles) and still going fine when I sold the car.