Mechanics and Sale Of Goods Act

s_b

as said probably cheap bearings fitted that are not proper case hardened or whatever the faces should be had done to them before some smart alec says they should be roasted in the juice of unicorns theres lots of case history on this in my trade journals
or garage hammered them in because they havent got a press
you wont win though too much time lapsed

ka bottom arms from say fai will last more than 7k unless driver hits potholes out of malice or speedbumps out of boredom,suggest try different brand as suggested or a trip to specsavers

Joe_Horner

The chance of "cheap bearings" causing the failure is fairly small, certainly buying "OEM" rather than aftermarket is generally a complete waste with bearings simply because the mark-up on the OEM ones (which are never made by the car maker) is absolutely huge.

Wheel bearings are almost invariably chosen at the design stage from the standard ranges that are available because it's FAR cheaper to design a hub around an existing bearing than to design the hub and then get someone like SKF to tool up for a non-standard size. Even tying customers in to original parts won't recoup the costs involved doing that!

As an example, a 6205 2RS (double sealed, 25 x 52 x 15mm, deep groove ball) from SKF or FAG will cost a whole £4.50 or so from your local bearing supplier. Get the same bearing in an OEM packet from a car maker and you'll be over a tenner every time (and it'll be made by SKF or FAG). So you'll very often find that the "cheap aftermarket" one really IS made on the same production line as the OEM ones and simply packaged up b a different company.

The chance of careless fitting is higher but would usually cause failure a lot quicker than 28k miles. Unless they're hammered in properly.

Which leaves the likely option - "just one of those things". Occasionally even the best quality part, fitted by the best mechanic, will simply fail before you'd expect it to.

Remember, bearing lives are quoted as statistical probabilities (eg: mean time to failure) but in anything statistical, there will be the very occasional outlier that either lasts far longer or far shorter than the average.

s_b

Joe Horner car bearings are getting more complicated by the week
gone are the days when you measured the old one and nipped down to timkens and he went through his book for you to match one up

SUESMITH_2

where we live we have loads of speed bumps, and when we had the ford escort we used to go through a set of wheel bearings every 6 months mainly because the width of the speed bumps used to push the wheels out a tiny bit and wear out the bearings. bought a big merc and no problem because the axle was just a wee bit wider.

oh is a mechanic so it didn't cost too much but it was a pain

Joe_Horner

s_b wrote: »

Joe Horner car bearings are getting more complicated by the week
gone are the days when you measured the old one and nipped down to timkens and he went through his book for you to match one up

Some may be, but most are still .standard bearings pre-fitted to hubs / abs triggers because that's by far the cheapest way to design and produce them. The question of whether the local mechanic still has the skills to change just the bearings is another matter of course!

Flyboy152

robocop79 wrote: »

The garage confirmed this when I returned the car.

Which garage, the one fitting the bearings or a different one?