rear wheel hub

[Tony Hoffman]

And this is why I pull the double seals on new ones and pack additional
grease in there before installing. Just be cautious on pulling the seals (I
use a small pick), I'm sure there's a youtube vid on it. Put them back in,
and away you go. Never yet had to replace a second time.

Tony

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Mitchell Segal <mitchellsegal at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Danny,
>
> Is this your first rear wheel bearing on that car, since it was new? I
> guess I must have gotten a lemon or something like that, because on my 2001
> A4 1.8QT, I have to replace the rear wheel bearings almost like they are on
> a schedule.  The right-rear goes about every 50,000km, the left-rear goes
> about every 85,000km.  I remember the first 2 were changed when it was
> still under the 100,000km warranty, and since then I've had to the right
> one 3 more times, and the left one 1 more time.
>
> Doesn't seem to matter whose bearings I have.  The factory ones lasted just
> 2-3 years, I assume they were replaced with more factory spec units.  I've
> had jobber bearings, I've had the top of the line SKF bearings, doesn't
> seem to make any difference.  They keep wearing out on a pretty fixed
> schedule (got about 222,000km right now, expecting the left one to go again
> this year, if it sticks to schedule)
>