I have an 89 Turbo and while doing other jobs I noticed one of the A arm boots is starting to age. Its still intact with no splits and the joint is fine.

Anyone know where to get just a boot from. I have used a split general purpose one from NAPA in the past which has to be glued. It was OK but not great.

I thought I heard that there was maybe a VW tie rod you could buy and just use the boot.

Any Ideas anyone?

Richard

 

So which is it? The tie-rod or the balljoint boot?

 

Its the A arm ball joint boot that I need, but I heard that the boot of a certain steering tie rod is the same. You buy a cheap tie rod, take off the boot and throw the rest away?

 

My local race prep shop showed me a whole box of Volkswagon ball joint boots that they use when rebuilding 944 control arms.

Here is what I read off the part:
"032 0002 013 009 P2"

Try calling up a VW/Audi dealer and ask them about the part...you might get lucky!

 

Yeah piece of cake. You can buy the boot from the #171 balljoint for an Audi A1. Also one off the Audi 5000S part# 431.407.377.A. Finally the boot off an early '80s VW Rabbit will work as well.

 

Thanks a lot, just the info I was looking for.

Richard