Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Gulp.....HOW MUCH???

[antonye]

I had a similar situation with the X5 not so long ago. When I was changing the brake pads (£18 for a front set off ebay! bargain!) I noticed that one of the CV gaiters was split. Actually, you couldn't miss it as there was grease everywhere!

So I set about getting the parts and managed to bag the replacement kit off ebay for a measly £6 inc postage. It was a new gaiter, clips and even a bag of grease to fill it with.

Then I sat down to read the instructions on how to change the gaiter... the site reckoned 4 hours to do it and it involved all sorts of fiddly things like removing a drive shaft, splitting a ball joint, removing odd sized nuts that I would need to buy new sockets for...

In the end I took it to the local BMW specialist and got them to change it when it was having an oil service. Considering he'd quoted me £75 to fit the new gaiter, I was quite pleased when the bill for that and the service came in at £205.

Sometimes it's just not worth doing it yourself!