Where's a good place to have my car looked at?
Whenever I make a turn, my car makes a loud clicking noise. It’s an older car but in otherwise good shape. I get the feeling it’s either the ball joint or the CV joint, but either way I’m too lazy to work on it myself so I thought I’d take it to a professional. Where’s a good place to go for something like that?
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A nice place will have their own equipment, like an alignment bay. Look to see that they have everything there. If they don’t, that usually means they ship your car off somewhere else to have it done, which means they will charge you a lot more & your car may incur some damage on it’s ‘travels’.
I normally go by word of mouth, or a reputable mechanic with a well known name in the industry. Then I “haggle” the price down and it always works loll.
It could be your wheel bearings.
I asked this question at Advanced Auto Parts. i found a mechanic there, that works part-time at AAP and repaired both CV joints on a 91 honda for $200. he did a great job.
Have you checked your wheel nuts? :-/
Pepboys..not. they’re a rip-off.
First off, I’ll bet my left testicle that it’s an outer CV joint.
Personally, for any work I can’t do myself, I prefer a local shade-tree mechanic since they tend to do better work at lower prices. Unfortunately, they are a little hard to find, but they are well worth it.
Sears Auto center or a Firestone Car Care center can get that fixed and have warranty work available almost everywhere.
Sears Auto is good, just don’t take it to the dealership, they are a rip.
You can always take it to the dealer.
My car had that symptom last month, and it turned out to be a cracked axle, which we took to the dealer to get replaced.
Axles. half-shafts, and CV joints (both inner and outer) are all one unit in most cars, and it’s often both cheaper and easier to replace the whole unit than repair it if any of them are bad.
However, dealers often don’t carry parts for some of their older cars like mine and tend to charge more for labor than almost anyplace, so the dealership is only a good bet if you still have a warranty to worry about. Considering that the warranty on my car expired near the end of the Reagan administration, you can see how that isn’t an issue for me ;)
@jerv Yes, I believe that is the reason we went to the dealer – it was covered
@YARNLADY Rest assured that if I had a newer car with a warranty that I would go to the dealer. The one new-ish car we had (2 years old when we got it) was taken care of by the dealer. However, the rest of the cars I’ve had have averaged 12 years old and ~180K miles before I got them, so it’s a different ball-game with them.
I thought it was safe to assume that the asker here didn’t have the warranty, or she wouldn’t be asking the question.
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