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Originally Posted by itschris
Sorry to hijack - what sort of symptoms are you having? With other cars I'm used to hearing a racket on the highway as they're going bad but haven't with this one.
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Kind of a groaning noise when cornering, mostly goes away when wheels aren't loaded laterally. Might have to go for a spin in a bit to double-check...
Weirdly I started hearing some clattering in a straight line over bumps and accel/decel on trip back to Prov from down south. Stopped to check and felt some play in the left front but couldn't tell if it was from bearings or balljoint or strut. Considered getting a hotel and taking it to a local DC(ish) area Sube dealer but figured it'd last so continued trip. At some point it quit making noise. Investigated yesterday and now there's no play! wtf...
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I had barely noticeable play and loud grinding under heavy braking when I bought the car 12k miles ago. Swapped in new OE hubs and all was fine. The grinding started coming back after the car (bearings?) warmed up about 5k miles ago. I've done pads/rotors/rebuilt the caliper since then without an effect so I'm pretty confident in ruling that stuff out.
7-12k street miles just seems too soon to be looking at them again.
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Yeah that's *way* too soon. Making me wonder about replacing with factory if they've gone to a cheaper less durable bearing...
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Any experience with SKF on this platform? They're cheap enough and I don't think I want to roll the dice with OE again
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Nope, had front bearings replaced under warranty after 1 year/13 track days with factory, those have lasted me a decent while.
If anybody has a better-than-factory alternative, let us know!