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OEM CV joints tend to last a long time unless the car has been beat to death. I agree with Wolfgang. Many years ago I built a dune buggy from scratch starting with a totally rusted out 1970 Beetle. Pans and mostly every system was replaced including the full front beam and steering components and brakes, wiring harness, rebuilt motor with new tins, carb, ignition, exhaust, etc (back then in the middle to late ‘80’s good parts for these cars were plentiful and inexpensive). I pulled the axles, cleaned them and took them apart and the CV joints were good so I got one of those colored EMPI axle boot sets (we didn’t know any better then; I recall they were blue and included the grease tubes) and repacked them with the special gray grease. Anything OEM is infinitely better than any new replacement you can get today unless it’s New Old Stock. This is one if not the only remaining photo of it; our female Lhasa Apso Nina on the right seat. Note the old faithful ‘79 Olds next to it, which along with a beautiful ‘69 Ghia were our first cars that took us to and back from high school and first few years in college. My youngest brother totaled the Ghia in a car accident around 1986 and I built the buggy to replace it. Needless to say, I’ve had my Speedster since 2004 and my brother has never driven it; can you guess why? 😉EC9ECEC2-A9DF-46D9-80DB-071303ECD4AC

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