Axle Shaft Assembly

[roudan]

Hi, after taking my car a long time ago to be checked. The mechanic gave a list of things that need to be fixed or changed in my car, one of them is the front axle shaft, both sides. That cost 122.63$ for each side (245.26 $ in total) labor is 89 $. I am thinking to buy the axles somewhere and have him or someone else put them. I found some axles in Autozone but i dont know what s better for my car, also using the paper the mechanic gave me i saw '' DTA SB8623 '' besides the discription, so i thought it was the part number, i looked it online and found it in this site http://www.clearlakeautomotive.com/uspa ... 25777.html
it's cheaper than what the mechanic told me, but the one in this site is just the left cv drive axle, and i need both the left and right. Here are the ones i found in Autozone :http://www.autozone.com/autozone/parts/ ... ing=search
I still dont get what that CORE stands for.
Any suggestions on what i shoud do? do i have to go with the Autozone ones? i want to know what do you think guys? thank you alot and sorry for this long topic.

My car is 1992 Subaru legacy wagon L 4-2212 2.2L SOHC automatic ( i dont know if it's 4wd or Awd)

[Apex3]

The left and right are the same. I've had one Autozone and one Schucks axle for a year(and about 20k miles) now with no problem, and they have a lifetime warranty, both are just remanned OEM. They're real easy to change yourself if you know your way around cars at all, but if you're paying someone to change them you may want to go for a nicer axle, as I've heard something bad(don't remember what) about the auto parts store axles, and you don't want to have to pay twice.

Core just means they'll charge you some extra amount that you'll get back when you bring the core(your old axle) back in, it's so they can send it in to be ramanned and sold again.

[roudan]

Thank you for your help. I thought there s a difference between the left and right axle shaft. Is there a good axle brand you may suggest? the mechanic choice was DTA. Autozone has Duralast and A cardone, also i found GSP and Fenco.

[biggreen96]

They will all be pretty much the same. Are your boots ripped? The big thing to look for is boot quality, if the store has a couple dif brands compare the boots and get the nicer/tougher looking boots. There isn't anyway you will break one.