Wheel bearing after MOT test

salubrious

A wheel bearing with enough movement in it, to make the car dangerous to drive would without any doubt be noticeable as it is driven.

Personally I would get a second opinion.

Richard53

Agreed, if you are not able or willing to check it yourself, get someone else to look at it. But wheel bearings are pretty tough and will soldier on for a long time before collapsing. I had a rear wheel bearing go on the Mondeo. It started getting noisy and feeling rough and I took it to my local independent to get it changed. It was like a new car afterwards, and I realised that it must have been grumbling for the best part of a year and I had just got used to it.


So, no need to panic (especially as it has just been checked at MoT and presumably was good enough then, so you have caught the problem early) but get it checked out for your own peace of mind.

s_b

it could have been missed on the mot because get this,its still carried out by a human,frightening but true..message ends...............................

turbadiesel

Wheel bearings can definitely go in less than 1000 miles, i have had it on my focus. However I'd get a second opinion, won't cost you anything. Don't get it done a peugeot. waste of money on labour charges, find a decent independent garage and get them to do it. Go on to eurcarparts and get the bearing kit yourself....A lot cheaper than the main stealers....

Strider590

Just want to add something here..............

YES a wheel bearing failure would be obvious from the noise several hundred miles before it went, BUT seeing as most people hear a noise and immediately crank up the radio in the hope it'll disappear, then I think OP should get this checked properly.

Go to a garage, tell them you think you can hear something strange when your doing 50mph, see if they find the bearing fault...... If they find something else, then not only is it probably OK, but you also learn another garage not to trust.

bigjl

turbadiesel wrote: »

Wheel bearings can definitely go in less than 1000 miles, i have had it on my focus. However I'd get a second opinion, won't cost you anything. Don't get it done a peugeot. waste of money on labour charges, find a decent independent garage and get them to do it. Go on to eurcarparts and get the bearing kit yourself....A lot cheaper than the main stealers....

No the symptoms just become more apparent over the course of a thousand miles.

Once a part has started to wear enough to make noise it will only get worse.

Sam_Fallow

I had a front wheel bearing collapse on a Mercedes with no warning the day after it passed an MOT.

Nothing wrong with the test or the tester (a tried and trusted local garage) but the car had been off the road for some unknown time when I got it.

Conversely a few years previously I had a Passat with a front wheel bearing that howled like a banshee at anything over 30mph but absolutely zero movement in the wheel.

As for the OP if you are not confident in checking it yourself get the dealership to show you the wheel bearing fault or get a second opinion, it only takes a couple of minutes to check.