silky

Just replaced completely Knackered rear O/S Wheel Bearing with only 30,000 on the clock. Is this the norm for Subaru wheel bearings, or did they make a bad batch.

mikefyfe

I've just had to replace both rear wheel bearings on my MY00 wagon @50k.

My garage said that they are manufactured with a slight gap between the hub and the bearing which is why they fitted "speedy sleeves" when they were replaced.

Needed 2 trips to the garage as the noise from the nearside rear was masking the offside, so wasn't heard until driving away with new nearside fitted. I would get your nearside checked out soon.

Anyone else had wheel bearing probs? Garage seemed to think Subaru knows about this but aren't issuing a recall.

JJD

Rear near side replaced on my MY01 GX at 46000 miles (a month ago)
Is there a pattern developing!

mart360

from your point of view yes...

from the oem,s point of view probably not...

bearings are by nature designed quite rigerously, and are subjected to great stresses.

what you ommit to mention is..

type of driving you do, vehicle loading , steering geometry, tyre wear etc,,,

all paly an inherant part on the bearing life,

look at it another way if at 60 mph the bearing is rotating at 6000 rpm

that means its rotated 24900000 times at a 49k life and a cost of say £60.00

thats a dam good return


Mart

mikefyfe

Mart,

Agree with all you say about tyres, driving style, geometry etc etc and if its time for the bearings to go because they've done 2 1/2 million rotations so be it.

My worry is that the first part of the above statement may not be true.

If my garage recommends putting on a sleeve to fill the gap between the hub and the bearing the design mustn't have been quite so rigorous?

Also if it were only £60 a bearing that's fine but it was £78 for the bearing, £28 for the sleeve, labour and VAT and laser allignment and I got a bill for over £400 for both rear bearings. So if they're going to go phut every 50k, I need to plan my budget differently

Mike

p1doc

i had both rear wheel bearings replaced on 03 sti at 40,000 miles
martin

adzipalmer

I have just replaced mine @ 32K on MY01 WRX

NEAR SIDE REAR

PHACT

So what we talking about here? Nearside or farside noise? What happens up your backside when the "speedy sleeves" are fitted to your frontside?

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

OT but what are the symptoms of a bad bearing, because I think I have one at the front nearside, ie when cornering hard to the right, there is a noticeable rubbing like noise from inside the car, coming from there. There is no wheel fouling or rubbing as far as I can tell. Any other way to diagnose?

briforbes

My mothers sport recently had it's 9th bearing changed since she got it in '98. Something to do with a sleeve apparently, which subaru made a replacement part for. I don't know too much about it but it's a costly and annoying pain in the ****.

sgcooby

Excuse my ignorance but would the bearings be covered by the warranty or is it classed as a wear and tear item??

I would have thought suspension bushes could be classed as wear and tear items also but ive had them changed under warranty on a previous car(not scoob).

Tim W

iTrader: (1)

My MY98 has covered over 90k miles on the original wheel bearings, it's had over 1 degree negative camber since 3k miles, 17's with 215/40/17 tyres from 20k miles, Leda coil over suspension from 40k miles, Powerflex bushes from 80k miles, and over 5k of the mileage (75% of that on hard compound slicks) has been on trackdays/'Ring...it's not had an easy life! They were rumbling a bit, but certainly didn't have enough play in them to warrent replacement just yet