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lilcrash

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66yostagea Grand Master

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Funny this is up. Had a call this morning from someone local who wants CV joints. Says there is a pair on ebay for $400. Is that reasonable or is it better to go to a repairer.

If so it there anyone in Brisbane you can recommend. And how much???

I got my boots from Repco last year. The fronts were only$30ish each. Local mobile mech charged $50 to fit them.

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wow, it took craig about 30 mins to do one, and that was his first time!

the $1600 was including other crap...but I still felt he ripped me off. Seriously, a trustworthy mechanic is rarer then hen's teeth.

Example - I went to this same mechanic to get a RWC done in order to reg my car in VIC. He charged me $110 for the RWC in Jan 2011.

last week I went there to get another RWC. on the invoice he priced the RWC @ $150??? WTF?

I ordered the superpro bushes via Bursons and Bursons was gonna charge me $187. The mechanic said just have them delivered to his place so he can install them ASAP. I thought, alright, why not. On the bill his charged me $207 for the bushes.

I can go on forever, but f**k me, they're just giving themselves a bad rep as dodgy kunts

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$187 + $20 shipping to his workshop I'd imagine.

Not that I disagree with you at all regarding the prices mechs can charge.

LOL, $20 shipping? a bit rich considering the workshop was about 1.5km away from the Bursons that I ordered it from.

I was gonna pick it up myself but the Mechanic insisted that Bursons had it delivered (not by a courier/post - just an employee driving over). The way I see it they just want to milk every penny from us folks...

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66yostagea Grand Master

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I am REALLY luck here on Mt Tamborine. The local Mobile Mech is very reasonable, and just as important, very clued up. The only problem he is mostly flat out and it can take a week for him to arrive. Sometimes he comes out to do a pissy little job I can't do caus of my arthritis, and he wont even charge.

Stooge007 Rising Star

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$170 drive in drive out. Strip, clean, grease and new boots.

Sounds good to me

both boots (driver and passenger) for $170?

or just inner/outer on drivers side?

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