Bongo Fury

Hi all,

My wife drives a 4WD Bongo and reported a knocking sound when cornering. This has got worse and worse over a short period of time and the vehicle has now been recovered to a local garage who are not Bongo specialists.
They have taken a look and reported that it needs a new n/s front drive shaft, on back order with mazda and will cost £384 for the part excluding fitting.
Does this sound right?

Thanks in advance

Andy

tids wrote:Hi all,

My wife drives a 4WD Bongo and reported a knocking sound when cornering. This has got worse and worse over a short period of time and the vehicle has now been recovered to a local garage who are not Bongo specialists.
They have taken a look and reported that it needs a new n/s front drive shaft, on back order with mazda and will cost £384 for the part excluding fitting.
Does this sound right?

Thanks in advance

Andy

Sounds alot to me. There are a couple of people here breaking bongos, i am sure you could get one from them ok, Ebygum is one for a start.

CV joints only £65 from Bongo Fury shop, so it seems very high - unfortunately currently out of stock , but you could try Bongobits etc.
Put your location in your profile - see http://www.igmaynard.co.uk/bongo/forum/ ... =3&t=29471 - we may then be able to point you to a local supplier

Is it likely to just be a CV joint thats failed?


AVA Leisure have come up trumps, Andy will speak to the garage tomorrow.

They can supply a CV joint for £38 or a used drive shaft for £100, will also help them to diagnose the parts required.

TOP MAN thank you very much.

CV joint is 90% of the time likely to be the source.


Go cheapest option first.

I had a similar knocking/clicking when cornering. It was indeed the outer CV joint, it had lost its grease due to boot clip u/s. New boot clip (HD ty -wrap) and repacked with grease as a temp solution. That was 2 years ago

agree with all, outer cv is on its way and the garage are trying it on, buy a cv from fleabay about £30 and ask them to fit it, 1 hours labour tops

Julian

Hi, I've also hat the same knocking sound lately from the front right wheel and took it to a garage who said it was the CV Joint. They have asked me for £180 + VAT to get one and fit it. Does this sound reasonable or should I tell them no thank you?

Bazzone wrote:Hi, I've also hat the same knocking sound lately from the front right wheel and took it to a garage who said it was the CV Joint. They have asked me for £180 + VAT to get one and fit it. Does this sound reasonable or should I tell them no thank you?

Whereabouts are you based in case one of the pukka value for money Bongo specialists is near you and could be asked to quote?

I'm in Newcastle/Gateshead. Not sure there are any specialists around here. Do you think that's a reasonable price. He reckons a couple of hours work

Bazzone wrote:I'm in Newcastle/Gateshead. Not sure there are any specialists around here. Do you think that's a reasonable price. He reckons a couple of hours work

When you factor in fuel, aggravation etc. that price - although it doesn't sound stunning - is probably one you just have to accept unless you are a budding DIY mechanic and/or someone on here can come up with a suggestion for their favourite local good and cheap mechanic. Might be worth renaming your thread so readers can see at once you are looking for a good, cheap mechanic in the Newcastle (u Tyne?) area. Good luck.

I'm in Newcastle/Gateshead. Not sure there are any specialists around here. Do you think that's a reasonable price. He reckons a couple of hours work

The Bongo Friendly garage list in the club members section shows a recommended Bongo Garage in Cramlington. You could give them a try if you are a club member.

Tony

Cheers Tony, I'll see if I can find them and give them a ring. I spoke to the garage this morning and they said they were going to charge me £100 for the part! It's only £41 including postage on mazdabongoshop.co.uk.