I was cleaning up the outside of my alloy wheels today and noticed it...Yeah, left (driver's) outer boot is toast on my S70...torn on the top and has slung grease all over the inside of the wheel. Had the tires rotated last week...wasn't happy with the balance job and took the car back on Friday to have them re-do it...nothing reported that anything was wrong. So, it's happened in the last two days....But, also suspect that maybe they didn't like me telling them to rebalance the tires...that has crossed my mind (that they slit it), but no proof and now on Labor day with nothing open I have to figure out what to do...can't even really order parts, because if I did, I would have them express mail it to me receiving my parts on Wed.

So far my plans are to drive it to work tomorrow and just leave it (the guy who works on my car is close to work) and drive a company vehicle until the job is done. Since it's a fresh "wound," and no clicking what-so-ever, I'm just thinking to go by the dealer and pick up a boot kit and get it done in the next couple of days. Not thinking I really need a new axle....guess my mechanic will tell me.

Just a bummer though...have had all summer to deal with this and I notice it the day before I go back to work. Why couldn't it have happened say, a week ago?

Okay, so for you guys who have done this, anyone lose any auto tranny fluid? If so, then I'm thinking I need to go ahead and pick up some Mobil-1 ATF or just go ahead and have it flushed again...it's been 27K miles since the tranny was flushed.

Any suggestions, comments or observations from doing this job or having had it done would be most appreciated. Klaus, didn't you just r&r some axles?

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1998 S70 T5 Emarald Green Metallic (125K), 2004 V70 2.5T Ruby Red (45K), Previous Owner of Black '94 850 Turbo Wagon (Sold at 140K and miss her). My cars have been running so well lately they've got me worried.