take it home and check it yourself. make sure they are not trying to sell you parts you don't need.

I had a shop do that to me on my truck.

"nope, we don't do rear ends, but we'll take a look at it and maybe save you $2000 in a new axle"

"ok, why not"

"looks like it's your carrier bearing on the driveshaft, and not the axle at all"

"um...I don't think so, but thanks anyway"

I ended up looking in the axle myself and found that it was the pinion bearings on the axle. they tried selling me stuff I didn't need.


they might have thought "old car, I bet he has old parts, let's get him for ball joints!"