besides- if you got rear-ended, your insurance company wont be picking up the tab, anyways- unless the other party did not have Insurance.

but, I'd say that a used driveshaft + balance should be well under a grand. I got seven feet of 2 pice driveshaft totally rebuilt, new tube and 1 of 4 yokes new for $430 last summer. not a benz, but still. try calling a few driveshaft specialists.

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