100 series cheap CV joint failures?

Another one being sucked in on cheap crap

Rooooboy,

They are crap, not even heavy enough to be useful as anchors.

25 years of replacing C/V joints and driveshafts. The good ones last, the cheap ones don't.

click click click click click click click

so where do you get the good ones|???

Just had one of mine replaced. Toyota wanted $1000 for the whole unit for the IFS cruiser. Got a second hand one for $500. Mechanic got it from a wrecker but I don't know which one.

LV fitter at work is jack of tem etting the non gen CVjoints many are gettingthem changed out every service

Are we talking about the CV's in a normal solid axle front end (which are actually burfield joints or the ones under the rubber boots on the front halfshafts on a IFS front end.
I would have thought that both should last the life of the vehicle if not abused, or boots ripped allowing crap to get in and the grease to be flung out.
In 30 years of owning Landcruisers I never replaced a burfield joint and in the six I've had the Humvee which has CV's on both ends of four halfshafts (eight in total) I've not had to replace them either and it is now over 20 years old.
I have had to field repair two boots staked by sticks (don't you just love sikaflex!) but they are all still fine with no detectable wear.

they must work,
I bought 1 on E bay about 4 years ago as a spare for the 80 series and haven't broken the original as yet(touch wood)
$ 45 was cheap insurance.
cheers
Howard