Body, chassis, structure
CV joint boot
Checked on 8 December 2025.Bumper, How much is CV joint repair in the UK? (as of 8 December 2025)
What does cv joint boot cost in the UK?
£50 to £140 fitted at an independent garage, VAT included, on a mainstream car. The midpoint of that range is about £95, and where you land inside it is decided by access, parts and wheel size rather than by the garage's postcode.
This one sits in an odd place in the manual. The boot is a transmission item under the body, structure and attachments section, so a driver looking under suspension will not find it. The job is to pull the driveshaft or split the joint, clean out the old grease, fit a new boot and regrease. Bumper put a boot at £50 to £140 and a joint or driveshaft at £250 to £900, which is the gap you are trying to stay on the right side of. Price drivers are which end of the shaft, since the inner joint usually means dropping the shaft out of the gearbox, whether the shaft has to come off at all, and whether the joint has already been contaminated, in which case you are buying the dearer job anyway. No labour time for the boot alone was published in a citable form, so none is given.
How this job compares
| Job | Area | Fitted price |
|---|---|---|
| Front wiper blades | Visibility | £19 to £45 |
| CV joint boot | Body, chassis, structure | £50 to £140 |
| Exhaust section or full system | Noise, emissions and leaks | £100 to £1,200 |
Common questions
- How much does cv joint boot cost?
- £50 to £140 fitted at an independent garage, including VAT, for a mainstream car.
- How urgent is it?
- Do it soon, though the car is safe to drive to the garage. A constant velocity joint boot that is severely deteriorated is a minor defect, and one that is missing, split or insecure so it no longer keeps dirt out is a major defect. The reason to hurry is money rather than safety: grit gets into a joint the moment the boot splits, and a joint costs several times what a boot costs.
- What moves the price within that range?
- Access, parts and wheel size, mostly. A job that needs the bumper or an arch liner off costs an hour more than the same job on a car where it does not, and a genuine part can be several times an aftermarket one.
- Is this price for one side or both?
- Treat the range as the job as the source published it. Where a part is replaced in pairs the detail below says so, and the second side adds less than double because the labour overlaps.
Sources
Every figure on this page was read off the publisher's own page on the date shown.