Re: CV Joints

["Dave A Swingle" <dswingle@xxxx>]

Sounds a little high, I'd think an accomplished mechanic would take 3 
hours at + $60-80 for the parts (boots and lube). If you want to see 
what's involved take a look at:

http://www.dmcnews.com/Techsection/cvjoint.htm

Not difficult, just messy. Will probably take most of the day. Latex 
gloves are a good idea. Kerosene is a good cleaning solvent for this.

Dave 

--- In dmcnews@xxxx, badgeman46@xxxx wrote:
> My car has two torn CV boots, they haven't been driven on that 
> much. The foreign shop down the road quoted me $470 including labor 
> to take care of doing the joints.