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Hey lads, going to be removing the front CV's from the stagea (1999, series 2 rs4 auto), as the inner boots are shot on both, and since I'll be replacing the coilovers to a new/ish set of bilsteins, thank you SK, might as well do this too while I'm at it. Ive left this for way too long, atleast a year now, but no sounds yet so I think the joint is still okay. Anyhows, I am looking for a decent shop in Sydney who is decent, and wont charge an arm and a leg for it.

Any recommendations? cheers

TIA

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I got tools but nothing special, your typical <100 piece toolset ahaha
Though, I've never touched CV's before, and dont want to f*ck it up either...
I've never taken my car to a shop before (I usually do everything myself or ask the ole man for help) so appreciate the advice on that, will probably stay away even more now.
Regardless, any recommendations? 
Planning on going to the suspension shop in Rydalmere sometime soon after fitting the coilovers & cv's too for a good alignment.

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11 hours ago, Wazmond said:

I got tools but nothing special, your typical <100 piece toolset ahaha
Though, I've never touched CV's before, and dont want to f*ck it up either...
I've never taken my car to a shop before (I usually do everything myself or ask the ole man for help) so appreciate the advice on that, will probably stay away even more now.
Regardless, any recommendations? 
Planning on going to the suspension shop in Rydalmere sometime soon after fitting the coilovers & cv's too for a good alignment.

I don't know of anything specialist about the Stagea and pulling it's CVs, but the ones I've worked on, are all damn easy.

Nothing "hard" at all, not even anything really technical or needing any crazy knowledge or precision.

Have a Google as you straight up might be able to buy decent replacement CVs/axles for the Stagea. 

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