Re: How much work you do on your car?
Just the cover or the whole joint shaft? I've got to do change the front left CV joint/shaft. Was it hard?
POS dealer is charging me $280 on a 3 year old car.
It depends, on some vehicles you have to remove the ball joint and/or axle to slide the CV shaft out, that is where most of the labour is, you need special tools/press to remove and press in the ball joint. On such vehicles its better you take it to the shop.. Once the CV shaft is out its better to replace the whole assembly, Its now off the shelf part, trade in will cost you half the price.
On my SUV it took me an hour for front left I did not had to remove the ball joint.