CV half shaft bolt failure

[steve00s]

My wife took the Boxster to work last week (a rare treat for her as I am quite selfish with the car) and I get a call from her that the car "broke" and is parked on the side of the road. She was stopped at a light and when shifting from first to second heard a bang and coasted off the road. Upon inspection, the car started fine but when the clutch was let out there was nothing. At first I thought a cable broke and the car was just stuck in neutral but the local shop correctly diagnosed it as broken CV half shaft bolts. There are six 10mm bolts that hold it on and four had come loose and the other two sheared off. It was amazing to me that the clutch was engaging but was so quite you could not tell. While not a common mishap it would be a good idea to at some point inspect those bolts so as not to be stranded somewhere.