Autozone CV Axles?

[cavpilot]

So I've got a little bit of play in one of my CV axles so I started pricing what a new one would cost. All the usual outlets (BMA, Bavauto, etc.) price them in the $300 plus range. However, I checked Autozone just giggles and they are selling them for $75. That's quite a big difference.

Does anyone have experience with the Autozone axle? What am I missing here?

Thanks.

[agent]

I put GSPs on Lola. So far so good after two AutoX days and an HPDE.

[DrJosh]

They generally have sloppy tolerances and build quality. But they can get you through in a pinch. Just make sure you look them over really well at the store to keep from having to go back. I just went through this with another car, 3 axles right out of the box had defects. Same situation for Napa axles, although in that case 4 were damaged/incomplete right out of the box.

[Balleristic31]

Another issue with az axles is that they are almost always a special order item for the stores, which means if the cheap axles break, your replacement is 2-4 days out. We don't see a lot of axles coming back for warrenty honestly, but I'm not convinced of their quality.

[wooooosh]

Autozone axle

I've been riding on one for about six months now. No issues.

[LateFan]

Those are usually poorly made Chinese crap at that price.

Try Raxles. They rebuild with original shafts and top quality CV joints for decent prices.

http://www.raxles.com

[e30orDie]

Have them get one and visually inspect it.


I drift on autozone axels.... but they are reman oem units. They have the bamboo notch in the center of the shaft and the hub side CV will have W Germany stamped on it. The bearing cages seem to be oem replacements like what pelican would carry.

I did break 3 advance autoparts shafts. All where the cages shattering and cracking. Some of the CV gears had chips and chunks missing. The shafts were straight (no bamboo notch) looked totally different. The metals aren't up to oem specs and are total fuckin crap.

The only downfall to autozone reman is the splines are almost never straight. I filed all of mine and still took force getting in the hubs. But they've never had to come back out.

Oem reman from autozone are just as good as oem aside from gobbered up splines. Which sucks a bag of dicks none the less.


I was in a time crunch at the time or I would have rebuilt my extra oem ones. Pelican parts has all the parts.


Advanced = lasted one 2nd gear shift

Autozone reman = 1.5yrs~ and still going

[fight4life28]

I was in the same boat at one point, saw all the bad review's and went with ones from blunttech forget the name but they cost about $400.00 for two. Wish I would have gotten CATuned axle's. Oh well.

[TimKninja]

I've been running a FEQ axle on one side for 25,000 miles now . No issues to report . Fit perfect . $100ish from parts geek.

Just installed one of these on the other side after running an OEM one with 295,000 miles on it. The last 35,000 with no boot on it LOL, with constant beating , under the power of an S50 swapped car .

http://m.ebay.com/itm/221508508336?nav=SEARCH

Only complaints . Missing a hose clamp on the inner boot (wtf) and the hardware was significantly longer then the OEM and would never have worked . But for $65 we'll see how long it lasts . I keep an OEM one in the trunk at all times just in case .

[heatmakerz]

Walk away from duralast unless you want to replace them again in a year.

[Blitzkrieg]

Always heard good things about the napa reman axles

[george graves]

I wonder what they do to reman them, other then to slap some grease and a new boot on.

(sorry - I'm apparently Debbie Downer tonight)

[mitchlikesbikes]

i read a big thread on this on e30 tech. apparently the same supplier provides autozone, napa, and possibly oreilly with reman axles. the supplier is called "cardone" or something like that. i wanted to do napa ones but they're apparently a huge pain in the ass to order and i found kits from a reliable seller on ebay that carries good brand name stuff to basically reboot/grease/etc my current axles since they are still good aside from old grease and cracked boots. at first i figured the reman axles would be cheaper than rebuilding mine so i wanted to go for it but after hearing a lot of shitty reviews and finding the cheap refresh kit i'm just gonna do them myself and go for it.

i'm also on stock m20b25 power at the moment so that factored in to my decision as well. not a whole lot of axle breaking potential from 180TQ

[shameson]

Got my FEQ's through blunt, good quality and no complaints so far

[cavpilot]

Great info here. Thanks for the tips.