wheel bearing going bad.

[calimus@techography.net (calimus)]

Noise on a right hand turn should make it the drivers side bearing I think,
since the load of the car will be on that side.  However, it never hurts to
replace both bearings at the same time.  Keep in mind that the old bearings
have to be pressed out and the new ones pressed in.  Reason I say replace
both is if you have no idea when they were last replaced, it's better to do
both and know that next week you won't have to replace the other one if it
desides to go bad out of the blue.

When one of mine went bad this past Feb, I found that the bearings were the
original factory ones so I replaced both and hope that the car gets another
200k miles before I have to do it again.

Now that I think about it, go ahead and check your CV's, a slight grinding
could also be the start of a bad CV joint.  I would think that a bad bearing
would be a constant noise (mine was), not just when turning.  Where as noise
when turning tends to be CV's.

William
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cory Langford" <corylang@dccnet.com>
To: <scirocco-L@scirocco.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 12:39 AM
Subject: wheel bearing going bad.


>
> I know a thread has gone through before on wheel bearing noise, but my
> searching the archives is not getting me what I need to know, so I will
ask
> again :)
>
> When I corner right I hear that dreaded wheel bearing "grinding" type
> noise.  So is that the left or right bearing that needs replacing?
>
>
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