Fair Price for CV Joint Replacement

Just got preventative MAINT done on my Tacoma. The Dealer Service Rep told me I need to replace my left CV Joint and gave me an estimate of $ 1067.00 (for both parts and labor). What should I pay a garage around San Diego for the job (including parts and labor)?

Thanks for your input.

 

Holy shit that seems expensive. I bought a used drivers side axel out of a 2012 with 9K on it for 100.00 and installed when I did my ECGS bushing. The whole job took about 2 hours

 

I'd think about fixing it this weekend but I need to drive out of town early next week (600 Mi) for some occupational TNG. I need to get it to a garage; I have no problem paying a fair price but I won't pay a gouge price.

 

For a grand you could buy brand news cv axles and totally replace them. Go somewhere and get another quote that stealership is trying to rob you.

 

Why do they say it needs to be replaced? Making noise? Torn boot?

 

Torn boot.....I am not hearing any noise.

 

So if the boot is torn, how long can you run it without any issues? Days? Weeks? Years? With time on your side you can get a better value on the repair

 

I have no idea. Any tech/mechanically inclined people know?

 

From what i hear OEM cv axles are pretty tuff. I had a tear in my boot and rode around for a couple months with no issue. I eventually changed it out. The job is easy. If you could get access to a friend with some tools, you could do it yourself. there are write ups on here on how to do it. it only takes about 45 min. start to finish. I wouldnt pay toyota to do this job, they are way to expensive for this repair.

 

Thanks for the input.

 

Depending on how bad the tear is, eventually all the grease will get slung out. At that point, you'll start to hear a clicking noise when you turn the wheels. I wouldn't wait too long after that to fix it. Could be weeks or months, but it won't fix itself.

 

I ran for well over a year without boots on mine and they didn't click once. I was cutting it all out anyway so I didn't care but if your replacing them its fine to drive on a torn boot until you can find the time to replace it.

 

If it isn't making noise, you can replace the torn boot with a split boot. Note the URL of the image - it's a genuine Toyota part:



When I had my Mazda Millenia, the dealer rebuilt one CV shaft for $400 including installation.

 

If you R&R the whole joint it's super easy, rebuilding them is harder.

To swap in a new axle shaft, is about 45 minutes.

 

What the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuu is that crap? I don't see how that would possibly work, ever.

 

Wrap the boot around. There's a mechanical ridge and adhesive bond. Watch the video and listen to the porn groove:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLrGNU_t83Y

A new Toyota OEM CV shaft assy can be pricey. And you want Toyota OEM because of the extra articulation.

 

Porn groove is right!


If you've got shit to do, run it. It'll go a long time (months), just stay on road if you can.


As for replacement... I'd run a reman if you don't do a lot of HARD wheeling. 120 bucks I think. A good tech could swap it out in an hour or less. I wouldn't pay over 2 hours.

So I figure around 300 bucks would be reasonable, or less.

 

"Easy" is relative. I found it to be a royal pain in the ass to swap my CV axles.

As I hear it - doing 2nd gen axles is harder than 1st gen axles.

But a brand new dealer CV is only like 500 for the part - and I can't imagine a dealer tech needing 3-4 hours ($140/hr) to swap a CV. So that price does seem excessively high. I'm guessing he must have quoted you the price to do both of them.

And yeah, if you offroad you want your original factory CV rebooted - not a cheap aftermarket replacement CV axle.

 

Just replaced my pass. Side inner boot two weeks ago.

217.xx at Golden Gate garage in Petaluma.

They told me it'd be 240 to redo the whole axle, but they're be using aftermarket parts, not factory toyota.

As moose ^^ suggested, I told them I'd like to keep my OEM cvs and just replace the boot. (Which i think is actually more work... But worth it. I don't want cheap ass parts on my truck)

Anyways. 217 to fix the problem. And as long as you're not doing heavy off roading, sand, salt or water driving... Should be fine with a torn boot until you have time to replace it. You'll just have a bunch of grease flung around your wheel well. No biggie.


1067 is retarded.

 

When I had my Mazda, I was quoted a theoretical $1300 if the dealer were to replace the CV shaft assy with a new OEM unit. Theoretical because they didn't have a new OEM CV shaft assy in stock anywhere in the country... In the last year of ownership (2009-2010), I nicknamed the dealer "Casino Mazda", because I was dropping $600-700 every visit.