Re: Wheel bearings

["Douglas B. Kuhn, Jr." <red_vr6@yahoo.com>]

Bah! This is what I figured it was.....Same thing is happening to my
passenger front. I just noticed the same symptoms last week. No car for me
this weekend. :-(


Doug Kuhn
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Zajac" <mzaj99@yahoo.com>
To: <jettaglx@igtc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: Wheel bearings


> Hi Darren,
> That's me and my $0.02 again. I went through it couple
> of months ago. I understand dealer sells these
> bearings as a kit and they're pretty expensive. Still
> I would suggest to change both of them at the same
> time, beacuse as you put more miles on your car, the
> other bearing will go out eventually and you have to
> go through all of this again. I changed them myself
> and I have to say that without proper tools it is
> major pain in the ass to get old ones out and even
> more pain to put new ones in without breaking them
> (think price). This is still difficult to do even with
> a bearing puller, which I used, because you have
> nothing to rest it on. It is a great idea to change
> the brakes while you at it, it would save you some
> time. If you just started to hear this bearing I think
> you have propably arround 2-3 k before gets really
> bad, but if you already have some vibration and loud
> humming, get to it as soon as you can. I think it is
> propably a left bearing because when you turn to the
> right car's body rolls to the left and puts more
> weight on left wheel. As the situation worsens you
> will notice: louder humming noise, more vibration and
> humming will increase significantly when you turn
> right at speed.
> These are just my observations comming from my own
> experience, I'm sorry it's such a bad news but I hope
> it helps you avoid some pain I had to go through (my
> ass still hurts when I think of it).
>
> Matt Z. '98 GLX 73K
>
>
>
> --- "Gerardo S. Rojas" <gsrojas@lucent.com> wrote:
> > Darren,
> >
> > I had the same problem, left front wheel bearing
> > went bad.  Only my
> > car has 40k.  You probably want to do the brakes and
> > the bearing at
> > the same time, but don't wait to long.
> >
> > Darren Gibbons wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I think that my car needs one (or two) new front
> > wheel bearings. There's a
> > > humming noise/slight vibration at speed coming
> > from the front of the car,
> > > that becomes slightly louder when I turn to the
> > right.  I had the car
> > > checked out when I purhased it, and they said that
> > it was probably a wheel
> > > bearing but they would have to do more
> > investigation before they knew which
> > > side.
> > >
> > > The car is a '97 with 89,000 KM.
> > >
> > > Do these symptoms sound like a bad bearing?  Is
> > this something I should fix
> > > right away, or can it wait a couple of weeks when
> > I take it in to get new
> > > brake pads?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any advice,
> > >
> > > Darren.
> >
> > --
> > Gerardo S. Rojas
> > (630) 713-9866
> > gsrojas@lucent.com
> >
>
>
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