emergency repair to cv boot

[amacman]

cv boot burst en route to south of France , i checked and cleaned them a few weeks and 200 miles before trip and all were in perfect condition so i can`t figure why one burst and inner folds are cracked .

i took the x to a village garage close to our holidy home and asked the proprietor to use a tyre repair patch until i could get parts from bmw , he dismissed my suggestion and said he would use rubber compound from a tube so i agreed to repair.
the cv boot had a 5mm hole on the middle outer fold .
after the repair i gently drove the 3 kilometers to the house them checked the boot , only to find a 30mm split where it was previously 5mm ,
i went to a tyre repair depot 20 miles away and asked them to patch boot but they dismissed my request so i bought a needle and thread to stitch the split and a bicycle puncture repair kit to cover the stitches and hold the grease.
after 1000miles of driving on some serious twisty roads and another 1000 miles of autoroute driving at 90mph with 4 people and luggage my repair is still good .
i did order parts to replace boot but it took a week for them to arrive from a bmw dealer only 50 miles from our holidy home so i figured that if i had any problems with replacing the boot then i could be stuck and my patch repair was holding.

[Weasel]

I could have told you the rubber patch wouldn't have held... but why no pictures of the needle and thread temp fix?

[amacman]

it was pitch dark , ants and spiders were crawling up my trousers , my hands were covered in grease , i was tired , whilst doing the repair i had thought about taking pics to post on forum but see previous excuses as to why i just wanted to get it over with .
i had to use pliers to push the needle through rubber , be very carefull if attempting this as i broke one needle . the patches cover the stitching for strength and to stop grease leaking .
and the repair is still good after 2000 miles , i just don`t feel so good after driving over 1000 miles non stop except for a quick detour to Le Mans circuit at dusk in the pissin rain then a quick sightseeing drive around London at 6am , i wish i had taken the 740i cos it drives real comfy .
the photo of the hole in the boot was taken just before the french mechanic got let loose on my X5 , i even gave him a 20ml syringe to inject grease into boot but i saw him going in with a big grease gun then a large tube of black rubber compound as used in the body shop .
i checked his repair when i got back to the house , that`s when i saw the split was now 5 times bigger than before and had rubber compound along both sides of split so i figured he must have split it more with the grease gun.
lesson learned is that i should have stitched the hole myself first then got a repair patch . i tried to get bmw dealer to replace boot cos it would have cost 280 euro but they were busy for 10 days so i ordered parts to be delivered to me but that took 7 days and my patch was holding so i just kept driving it with the patch .