Can stationary lock to lock steering stretch or damage a cv joint or drive shaft. One person told me it could. Cause I tend to do this an awful lot when getting out of parellel parking spaces. Sometimes gotta do it 10 times or so in one sitting. Cause this is a 2009 honda crv that i've had for 6 months and lately I have been having symptoms of rapid deceleration, car seems to be shifting a little harder, sometimes on my first trip of the day when I first back up and turn the steering wheel I hear I light clang come from under the car but i dont hear it again after. And it doesnt always happen. Also sometimes on first acceleration I will hear a qucik thunk and wont hear it again. This has been going on for months and dealershift cant help me. Does anyone have any ideas please help.

Stationary lock to lock turning, will not damage the CV joints, they are designed to turn in this manner, to test a CV joint to see if it has damage, go to an empty parking lot, stop the car, turn the steering wheel full left, accelerate kinda hard, do you hear a clicking or clunking noise? repeat in reverse and on the right hand side. Any noises and your CV joints may be worn, also inspect the CV boots for tears and leakage by turning full left and looking at the boot, then full right. Hope this helps, let me know

There is nothing to "stretch" in a CV joint. This is a sliding joint and no it can not be damaged by cycling the steering from lock to lock. The boots can be damaged by high speed rotations at either lock.

Your other symptoms are unrelated. I can not pinpoint the issue as I can not see the car. Your clang sound could be a simple as a loose heat shield on the exhaust.

They are designed to be able to do this and will take it. Having said that remember that you are pushing them close to their limit and with anything mechanical, pushing it repeatedly to its limit can lead to premature break down. Hope this helps.

The damage comes from high speed rotations at each respective lock. Simply turning wheels lock to lock will do nothing to damage your CV joints. However if you were to be stuck in snow and spin wheels at high speed at either of the far lock positions (R or L) I would expect to find a potentially ripped CV boot.

you could damage the cv joints over time but you will damage the power sterring pump if you hold the steering in lock ,it but strain on the pump by back feeding the presser of the pump and forces the pump presser to build up and damage pump seals

no they will not. be wary of incompentant techs. if that was the case, then more axles would be falling apart in parking lots. cheers

if your moving, no

tell who ever said that their nuts!
and if they have a tool box you might want to everyone one a favor and hide it

First I think you read it wrong ,that Front WD suv have locking dif..they don't , it locks at the transfer case at the tranny and only on All Wheel Drive SUVs. And then it only transfer more power from back wheels to front wheel. The dif are open dif. means the power goes to the wheels with least resistance or limited slip dif. that transfers power to slower turning wheel. Yes max. load is at full lock and high speeds and yes it does damage over time (wear out), less at lower speeds. The symptoms of a failing cv is knocking while turning.

well now,,,il tell you a storie,,,better sit down?
the cv joints are the joints in a drive train that for use of a better word "bend the drive shaft" so it dont brake when you turn a corner,,,ie:parking! inside the cv joint is held on the drive shaft be some splines in the drive shaft and a spring clip holds it all together there is an "inner bell" it has normaly 5 slots in it that have big "ball bearings" in them that slid around up and down these slots on the out side of the cv joint is the outer "bell" this also has slots that the ball bearings fit into so the drive trough the cv is compleat,,,when you turn the wheels the cv joints slids round on these ball bearings twisting round but the drive from the engine is still transmited to the road wheeles trough the cv
when this cv joint starts to were out the ball bearings are pitted and not ball shaped any more and the slots they run in are not smooth that to gets pitted what happens is the cv starts to "crack" under load,,,and vibrate when turning or being driven you drive down the road at 50 mph and the car feels like its driving over stones in the road its vidrating off the cv joint then when you turn the wheel on full lock to pull away you here a very big cracking or clicking sound, like,,,,,click click click, and the more power you put on the more they click very soon people start turning around and look at you? oh yes they here it to!
the vibration that comes off the cv will reck the transmission becouse of the wipping of the drive shafts,,,, to test your cv joints to see if there good or bad one's put the car on full lock and pull away,, if there is a cracking sound or a klicking sound there shot away and you need new ones fitted
now then,,,storie over,,, its time for sleepy sleeps