MOT Fail - Ball Joint

Shas21

Mine failed on same thing recently( front driver ball joint).. cost me £35 (part was £15)
my car is a renualt megane

colino

beer belly, go back to your employer and report you have done well. Any decent garage that can't do this simple job in five minutes is staffed by a bunch of KF rejects.

Rolandtheroadie

I've had bother with ball joints before, found the ball joint splitter and (what I call) a P-Way hammer got there eventually.

If you missed, you would have taken the wing out tho.

chrisfreelander54

that would cost me £100 max inc parts and labour at mylocal garage.

hth
Chris

Westmead_Fan

Shas21 wrote: »

Mine failed on same thing recently( front driver ball joint).. cost me £35 (part was £15)
my car is a renualt megane

Really???

comparing totally different vehicles means nothing.

all depends if the ball joint is a pig to get out could range from an hour or two labour, around £100 if the job got abit tricky might be realistic

reeac

Beer_Belly wrote: »

I just had a go trying to renew the lower ball joint dust covers on a Honda CRV, turned out to be a complete pain in the #rse.In the end I had to admit defeat and took to a local garage, even they found it quite a challenge. The awkward part was dropping the tapered bolt of the ball joint through the lower arm knuckle, despite having investing in a hydraulic separator. Don't hammer away at the end of the taper, try tapping at around the knuckle it goes through instead. The hub / ball joint then wouldn't fit in their press either so it all had to be teased out and replaced by hammer and drift. Cost of decent parts was about forty quid plus 3 hours labour (and a wasted seventy quid on a separator)!

The clever way to release a balljoint taper used to be to tap simultaneously on opposite sides of the housing with a pair of hammers. I had to do this once and it worked first time despite the fact that one was a carpenter's hammer and the other a club hammer.

red_eye

revolution1978 wrote: »

Hello

My MOT failed today for:

• nearside and offside ball joint dust cover excessively deteriorated so no longer prevents the ingress of dirt (2.2.c.1c)
• nearside and offside ball joint has excessive play (2.2.c.1f)

Is this an easy and cheap job to fix (I will be going to garage but wondering ball part figures)?

And is the car still save to drive in the meantime?

no idea.........is the ball joint separate from the wishbone like vw's and does it bolt on or screw on? or is it complete with wishbone like ford fiestas?

red_eye

colino wrote: »

beer belly, go back to your employer and report you have done well. Any decent garage that can't do this simple job in five minutes is staffed by a bunch of KF rejects.

not a 5min job on a honda especially if it has a double wishbone set up

red_eye

reeac wrote: »

The clever way to release a balljoint taper used to be to tap simultaneously on opposite sides of the housing with a pair of hammers. I had to do this once and it worked first time despite the fact that one was a carpenter's hammer and the other a club hammer.

buy a better hammer and hit it like a man:p

mattyprice4004

colino wrote: »

beer belly, go back to your employer and report you have done well. Any decent garage that can't do this simple job in five minutes is staffed by a bunch of KF rejects.

Ball joint change in 5 minutes?
I'll have some of what you're smoking please.