I tend to stay away from advance auto. they have seriously gone down in quality.

I got the axles from autozone before they stopped doing the unlimited time limit on the $20 rewards points. so about 2 years ago? now days I use o'reilly.

the cv joints were among the items I used to negotiate the price of the x5 when I bought it. both were noticably clicking. these two front autozone cv joints have been going just fine the past two years and have a lifetime warranty on them. didnt notice anything wrong with build quality.

I generally use the parts stores, ebay, or rock auto on all my cars for years. I've had a couple bad water pumps and alternators and such but overall I guess I have been extremely lucky. *runs to knock on wood* lol.