Wheel Bearings...

[BigBoreBri]

The evil whirring of a knackered front wheel bearing has raised its head so ive been pricing up wheel bearings and lower ball joints, gonna do each side at the same time so its all fine and dandy for the coming years

Basically ive priced up the following:

Reno : £46 (Bearing) and £10 (Ball Joint)

EuroCarParts : £25 (Bearing) and £10 (Ball Joint)

Halfords : £36 (Bearing) and £16 (Ball Joint - doubt it )

The question is do i just get some cheap bearings from eurocarparts or fork out for renos origonal ones... theres not a lot in it but me guess is there all guaranteed for just 1 year so is it worth forking out

Comments plz... P.S if any1 working at a reno dealers can PM me plz as i need some advice regarding summit, cheers

 

[Mike Wright]

There basically the same ones as Bearings are manufactured mainly by 2 japanese companies!......99% of the car manufactures use these bearings.



How do I know? I was working with a Dr in Cranfield whos working for one of them.

Reno: £ + masssive profit

Europarts: Price + small profit

Halfords: Price + medium profit

 

[Essex_Lad]

how much for fittin?

dont u need a press?

 

[BigBoreBri]

Quote: Originally posted by Essex_Lad on 27 December 2003


how much for fittin?

dont u need a press?

Ill fit em myself.. got a press in the shed

 

[weight]

what else do u have in the shed?

 

[MAXIBOY]

if you haven,t poly bushed then its possibly worth changing the complete wishbone as its only twenty quid more and the bushes are prob shot

 

[Essex_Lad]

one of my front wheel bearings av gone

how much roughly am i lookin at? £60?

 

[MAXIBOY]

depends how much work you do yourself strip the hub off yourself get someone to press it in put it back together

 

[Essex_Lad]

well im probably gonna go down BB and get them to fit a new bearing and my exhaust system at the same time

 

[MAXIBOY]

bb let you know fitted prices on there site

 

[Essex_Lad]

had a look £60 on the 16v/williams but no quote for the RTs but im sure they will do it ne way

could my wheel actually fall off coz it is quite bad?

 

[weight]

they seize(weld due to heat), but never heard of a wheel falling off

 

[Essex_Lad]

good good

well not so good but betta than scrapin along the floor

need to drive bout 20 miles to the garage down a dual carriage way so i think left hand lane drivin is in order

 

[MAXIBOY]

cheaper smaller bearings on smaller engined models but fitting the same

 

[BigBoreBri]

Quote: Originally posted by weight on 27 December 2003

what else do u have in the shed?

Oh ya know... just a few bits n bobs

 

[JAY172]

where you from? i get quite a large staff discount on renault parts.labour for the rt will be the same as a williams(same design etc different bearing).you will need a press.