Is it nearly $1000 to get CV joint repaired or axle shaft?

My steering wheel began making clicking noise yesterday upon turning. I guess I'm ok for a bit to drive it but soon I need to have a mechanic look at it. I just got a price online that click noises are often a CV joint and that it's $900-$1000 . Is that the average price to get it repaired ??? 😮

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Zaphod42 · 51-55, M

Depends on the mechanic shop…Toyota wanted $750 per side to do it on my old Prius, but the nice Vietnamese shop up in north county did both sides for a total of $600.

Coralmist · 41-45, F

@Zaphod42 Was it recently?

Zaphod42 · 51-55, M

@Coralmist Three-ish years ago

Coralmist · 41-45, F

@Zaphod42 Did it originally cause the clicking sound near steering wheel? How long were you able to drive it before bringing it in?

Zaphod42 · 51-55, M

@Coralmist my first experience did that with an 84 Ford tempo in the early 90s… More of a hard knocking sound whenever I turned left. My more recent experience with the Prius was more of a strange vibration almost like the tires were off balance, but only from 48 to 63 miles an hour. No knocking or clicking sound this time, but when I crawled underneath the car and took a look, I could see the half shafts on both sides were coming loose from the transmission.

twiigss · M

@Zaphod42 Toyota dealer charged $700 to keep my car for a week just to say, "well, we think it's the fuel injectors"

$2100 to replace them. We said no thanks to that.

Coralmist · 41-45, F

@Zaphod42 600 is better than 750🙂 The clicking has only occured once, two days ago. And yesterday I drove it about 20 minutes, no clicking sound. There was a bolt like knock sound two weeks ago in middle of steering wheel, but nothing since then. I wonder if I can drive it for a while to see if these two sounds become prevalent, or is it concerning even once or twice, and get it looked at soon?