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<blockquote data-quote="Parks 788" data-source="post: 1335443" data-attributes="member: 14646">Sometime that&#039;s what you get when buying&nbsp; a used car, especially with that many miles on it.You may consider yourself luck that is was only Ujoints that are bad.&nbsp; Cheap and easy fix.&nbsp; BTW, ujoints don&#039;t go bad over several thousad miles or 10K as you mentioned.&nbsp; Typically once a ujoint is fatigued, not greased, bearings heat to much, etc it will usually clunk like you mentioned and then start to squeal upon accelleration.&nbsp; Once you notice the noise of a joint going bad you may have 1 mile or 15 miles but generally don&#039;t expect much more than that.&nbsp; Chances are if the toyota had multiple test drives when the joint was beginning to fail a used car salesman wouldn&#039;t have a clue what the noise is and probably wouldn&#039;t report it and make it look like the truck was junk.&nbsp; Putting his blinders on as they say.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Parks 788, post: 1335443, member: 14646"] Sometime that's what you get when buying a used car, especially with that many miles on it. You may consider yourself luck that is was only Ujoints that are bad. Cheap and easy fix. BTW, ujoints don't go bad over several thousad miles or 10K as you mentioned. Typically once a ujoint is fatigued, not greased, bearings heat to much, etc it will usually clunk like you mentioned and then start to squeal upon accelleration. Once you notice the noise of a joint going bad you may have 1 mile or 15 miles but generally don't expect much more than that. Chances are if the toyota had multiple test drives when the joint was beginning to fail a used car salesman wouldn't have a clue what the noise is and probably wouldn't report it and make it look like the truck was junk. Putting his blinders on as they say. [/QUOTE]

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