Companies make the clam-shell, glue together types, but I have not seen any listed for Ridgeline. It never occurred to me whether the axle ends might be the same on Pilot or Oddysey? Never checked if clam-shell boots are available for them.... you might want to check that out.
I had used these on Civics in the past & they worked just fine. This presumes of course that you still have good joints, & clean/grease them well before putting the new boots on.
I just ordered new OEM boots/clamps for mine (outer only), even though I've already got 160K miles on our '06. But it's been mostly easy street miles & no towing. A lot of it straight highway miles, so I'm thinking my joints are still good for a long while. We'll see.
You DO have to pull the axles to install new boots. But my boots are just seeping at the boots where they clamp to the axles, and I just want to get that stopped. It makes a bit of a mess, even though the 'slinging' is just in small amounts.
The prudent approach might be to just replace the axles.... but knowing you can get a bad one now & then with aftermarket, and comparing the cost of boots only to OEM axles, I opted to just get the boots. (inners are not leaking & all of them look good except for the seeping)
I'm guessing other harsher-weather locations probably don't fare so well.
