Answers: I'm not a mechanic, but my experience have been that a U shared is a very reliable fragment on a vehicle. You didn't say what nice of car you enjoy, but it sounds like a fwd. In that defence you are talking roughly speaking a CV joint that do wear out quicker and cost more to replace. Did it wear out because the boot tore?
I am assuming you hold a 4wd vehicle if it has a front disappeared u joint?
$300 is a dream. The brakes will cost at least possible that much alone. I bet you will wind up sending double next to the u-joint replacement since it is pressed, and they will need to remove the shaft as very well to complete the task.
For what they do, u-joints are surprisingly reliable.
As for the cost to repair the brakes and replace a u-joint, year-make-and model would help out, but ot be honest, you'd only pick up about 10 bucks buying the u-joint yourself, and around here, we charge more labor to install customer-supplied parts -due to the certainty that it is usually wrong and then the vehicle is tying up a rack while we keep on for the customer to bring us the correct part that we would own gotten to begin beside. As a a sidenote-most shops also will warranty a part along near labor that you buy from them, but do not warraty labor for a customer supplied part.
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