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Wheel axle snapped whilst driving home from the garage it was 'repaired' by!
My car was in the garage having a few jobs done on it. The mechanic ended up changing a wheel bearing :T (back passenger side) Ive picked the car up and on the way home the wheel has completely snapped off the car, id been driving it about 5 minutes seriously. where do I stand?
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At the side of the road.
On serious note. What has actually failed?0 -
My car was in the garage having a few jobs done on it. The mechanic ended up changing a wheel bearing :T (back passenger side) Ive picked the car up and on the way home the wheel has completely snapped off the car, id been driving it about 5 minutes seriously. where do I stand?
That's kind of the thing likely to happen with mechanic who used to repair my car. Do you live in South Wales?;-)
Look up at CAB website, I think there is something about car repairs.0 -
You need to find out where the fault lies, part failure or poor repair. I'd suggest you get an independent inspection, AA or RAC for example, and not rely on the Garage to tell you the truth.0
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It's What the bearing and hub slide on to. Think it's called a stub axle or spindle. it was hot so not sure if the bearing failed and cause the axle to snap.0
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Most wheel bearings are prepacked with grease and sealed for life so may have been a faulty bearing or it may have been fitted incorrectly.0
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The stub axle won't shear if the bearing fails. The bearing might collapse, leaving the wheel to flollop about, or even fall off. The bearing might seize, locking the wheel... But the stub axle SHEAR? No.
The most likely cause I can think of for a stub axle shearing is impact damage. But the most likely result of impact damage, apart from damaging the wheel and tyre, would be to cause premature failure of the bearing...0 -
Won't the left hand side undo the hub nut as it goes along if the nut wasn't secured/loktited/replaced? (Especially if you use eBay bearings so the inner tries to run on the shaft when they bind)I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....
(except air quality and Medical Science)
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most wheels are taper roller type and are NOT greased for life , they must be carefully set up to remove "play" but not run tight , an interesting comment "back passenger side" , si wonder if he has failed to fit the retaining split pin and the nut has simply unthreaded itself?0
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Thanks for taking the time to reply. The bearing it self is still in place within the wheel, I agree with the fact a failed bearing may not cause the stub axle to snap however the heat coming from around the wheel indicates that something had seized or failed.0
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Can you actually see anything that has 'broken' or snapped, as opposed to things just coming apart.
Omitting to replace the split-pin in a castellated nut would mean that the nut would completely undo itself and the hub would then fairly quickly just slide off the stub axle.
Can you post up a pic?0
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