CV joint cost?

Hi all

I've got the car booked in for monday to have the front off-side wheel checked. Its making a clicking sound when turning, mainly in reverse. I have checked for play in the kingpins and there is none. So iam thinking its probably the CV joint. Just wondered if anyone knows what they cost? I assume we a talking hundreds. .

Cheers

Nobby

Hi,

CV joint just around £54 ish, and follow Martins ( How to guide )............or hundreds like you say.

I'd take it slow and do it yourself, just a dirty job and put a sheet of something down on the floor to catch all the slime lol

Andy

Mine has also started clicking when turning in 4wd... will get it looked at when it goes for MOT soon.

There are two types. One is around £50 or less from motor factors (including me). The other is Suzuki only and only comes with the entire shaft for ££££'s

Watch out for cheap ebAy ones, they are often completely wrong

Martin

How do you know which it is?

Hi all

Well in total it all cost £400. :ohmy: Oh well, there goes the winch! . I had to have BOTH of them replaced. At some point in the past the wrong type of grease had been used. He said the grease had dried out inside the housing. Lucky i had them checked. That could have been a disaster if they had failed off-road. :ohmy: Its now because of this i can no longer go to bigjimny. . I surpose £400 is nothing compared to if i had gon to Suzuki.

Nobby

£400... bloody hell... where did you get that done? Suzuki?

No. :laugh: I used a local garage. Compared to what Suzuki would have charged me i think £400 wasnt to bad. :laugh:. I am just pissed off about the wrong grease being used. Thanks to someones complete bloody stupidness i've had to pay for something that should'nt have had to be done.

Nobby

So what did they actually replace for the £400?

2 CV joints?

sounds bloody expensive to me too....
I woul dhave just packed more good grease in, would of prob lasted a while yet....

£150 for 3 hours labour
£208 for two c.v. joints. So thats £104 each. :dry:
£10 sundries

Total £441.60

Remember that Suzuki do not do separate CV's they replace the whole driveshaft which means it will always be expensive.

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