>> My mother's 75 Scirocco broke a noisy CV once. Outer axle-end dropped
>down,
>> disconnected from the hub. A flailing axle-end at speed could cause
>further
>> damage.
>>
>> Maybe Totota CVs are just a better design?
>
>Sorry to pick on you, but CV joints are a high-wear item in any car.  I have
>seen Hondas go through them in 40K to 60K on a regular basis, and many folks
>hold Honda as the reliability standard.
>
>CV noise is a sure sign of wear.  Since the front-wheel-drive CVs are forced
>to work at high angles they tend to wear out sooner.  If you hear clicking
>it's best to go ahead and replace the CV joint.  There's no guarantee the
>clicking will increase before the joint breaks.  I learned that lesson from
>experience.

Hmmm...we've been running Coronas and in the past a Corolla as taxis, and
the CVs have been lasting far better than that! We finally replaced the
noisy one in the Corolla, but not until it had done 10s of thousands of km.