Sudden incident of wheel breaking off control arm?

Gotta find local mom/pop garage
Support the community not the bastard money grabbing dealers
Good luck

 

Please replace front right wheel bearing at the same time if it hasn't been done either.

Not sure if it's helpful, but I own a shop in Canada.

I would probably charge between 4-5 hours labour to replace all parts on the driver side, plus the wheel bearing on the passenger side @ $115/h (CAD)

Aftermarket parts would be in the range of around $800-1000 (CAD) if I were to guess. And that includes front right wheel bearing.

So that's a total of around $1575 CAD all in.

 

I second what he said. Once you get the wheel bearing/hub out. The knuckle comes out with two bolts at the bottom. A tie rod end nut and a good whack with a hammer to free that, one upper ball joint nut and good whack with a hammer will free that joint. Boom it's out. I think an extra 0.5 labor past a wheel bearing is fair, again at our shop we would do the 0.5-1.0 extra just to work with ya and help out. Then once that's out all it takes is a little finesse to free the CV axle from the front differential. Again the 0.5-1.0 labor is fair. And as far as brakes goes, they have to unbolt the caliper and remove the rotor anyways to do the bearing/hub. So 0.5-1.0 is plenty to go a little further into it and remove pads and disconnect the line to replace the caliper (assuming that's actually damaged) and bleed that corner.

I'm not sure labor rates in colorado but here in north texas $125 seems to be the rate for good quality mom and pop shops and dealers ask $150 (I believe), I haven't worked at one in almost 8 years.

 

I'm not sure if toytec lifts does any maintenance type work and I don't want to put any words in there mouth but we deal with mookie and Jason frequently and they are some really cool guys. Have your friend call them up and see if maybe they can give you a quote over the phone for the same repairs or if they even do them.

 

I recommend you bring the truck for another quote elsewhere. On extensive repairs that I don't have the time or patience to do myself, I would never send my wife or female to get an estimate. Techs think females are mechanically challenged and tend to upsell.
Find a local shop, there's nothing special on that repair list that would warrant using a dealer. I would also strongly suggest replacing both wheel bearings since the other one will likely fail some point in the near future.

 

I haven't got any new updates from her besides the service people jerking her around but I'll check in with her and post to the CO thread.

 

Okay. Just looked up labor times at work. According to chilton labor guide a wheel bearing is 3.4 hours. So if a shop is willing to work with you, you'd be looking at roughly 5-6 hours of labor which at our shop would be around $750 but that depends on the shops labor rate where you are. My labor guide also gives prices estimate for parts, I would normally call a local dealership but they are all closed due to weather we got here in Texas. All these prices would be Toyota oem parts but you're looking at $470 for cv axle (43430-04070), knuckle $430 (43212-04050), bearing $190 (

$172 43570-04011 Axle Bearing Assembly, Front

43570-04011), hub $234 (43502-04080), rotor $83 (

$90 43512-04052 Toyota Genuine Parts - Rotor, Brake Fr (43512-04052)

43512-04052), splash shield $73 (47782-04050), caliper $173 (47750-04092).

Caution these are all price estimate and part numbers may not apply to your particular vehicle. This is just what I could find on my vehicle (2008 4x4 trd off road 4.0l). You'll want to cross reference to verify but this should give your friend some good information to arm herself with when dealing with a shop. Added all up you're roughly at $2400, so coming in at $1000 less than her initial quote from what ever shop she's at.

Yes we are extremely slow at my shop due to weather so I had plenty of time to kill to look this all up

 

you forgot the speed sensor. Last time I checked OEM ones were made out of gold......

 

Uhhh ya. Seems to be. And found in the arctic tundra or something because they want $60 for it (thats after a discount too) and its going to take up to a week to arrive..... what in the hell

 

I had one wheel bearing replaced, and i replaced the other one myself.. But seemed like it was less than 300 bucks.. Honestly, this seems like about an hours worth of work at a shop that does it regular and has all the right tools readily available.. quoted hours are stupid. It seems as if they took each job separately and layered it on top. So for instance, they quoted a bearing replacement job total hours and total price. then they quoted a ball joint replacement from start to finish total price, then they added an axle replacement from start to finish. then they added a rotor replacement from start to finish. etc etc, as if each part was a separate job from start to finish. Truth is, one you go so far in, the rest is simple nuts and bolts, but they are adding each little piece as a separate start to finish job.. and that comes up to the BS price. what they should really do is look the labor for the deepest part, probably an axle, or control arm.. quote the labor for that +1 hour. A smaller more honest shop will recognize this.. But a dealership just sits on a computer and adds each component. Its stupid

 

for OEM? if that's correct, that's a great deal! I recently broke off both of my sensors doing a bearing change, and my dealer wanted $170 each ( CDN ) I damn near choked, Thankfully RockAuto had some for $30 each

 

Holy hell! Yeah $260 and part number should be

$17 89543-04020 ABS Sensor Compatible with Toyota Tacoma(05-20), 4Runner(03-20), FJ Cruiser(07-14), Land Cruiser(08-20), Lexus GX460 (10-20), GX470(03-09), LX570 OEM Replacement ABS Wheel Speed Sensor

89543-04020

 

Bearing is most labor intensive due to pressing into hub. Technically the knuckle is most labor by the book of 3.8 but the bearing has more work to it. So I think the 3.4 for the bearing then .5 for knuckle, .5 for cv axle, and .5 for brakes is fair.

 

most bearings come with the whole hub assembly.. or at least mine did.

 

The OEM bearings do not come with the hub. When I had mine replaced at the dealership, they pressed out my old ones, then pressed the new ones on. Some aftermarket bearings come with the hub pre-assembled.

 

Yep. After seeing some people selling hubs with bearings for 6-bolt Tacomas, I started looking on the Toyota website for that "pre-made" assembly, but it doesn't exist. They sell everything individually, and the buyer must press the bearings into the hub.