Wheel bearing gone after my MOT

_futurephil

Hi,

I've just had my MOT done yesterday. The car needed a rear tyre and the two front coils replaced. I had an advisory to replace the brake pads as they were looking slightly worn. Due to the high price they charged me for my coils I was looking to take it elsewhere and get them changed.

When I drove out of the MOT centre and got onto a straight road (less than a minute later) I could feel a humming sound from my car. I drove it home anyway and called the garage the next morning to tell them about the problem. I have now dropped it in and they have just phoned to say the wheel bearings have gone. I spoke to the man and he said they were fine during the MOT and it would have happened after I left.

I am quite suspicous of this and I would like to know where I stand before I hand over any money to repair it. Any advice?

caprikid1

What car, age and mileage ? Front or rear wheel bearings ?

facade

Take it somewhere else to get the wheelbearing changed if you think your garage is too expensive.


They do just go noisy. The MOT looks for excessive play in the bearings, if that had been present at the time of the MOT, it would have failed, so you are lucky there.


There isn't much that you can do to make a bearing fail literally seconds after they worked on the car without a great deal more effort than the money for a repair would bring in.

_futurephil

It's a Nissan Note. Front wheel bearing, 10 years old with 102000 miles

tacpot12

That is a reasonable mileage for a front bearing to go at. Usually the nearside ones go first due to greater number of potholes at the edges of roads.

facade

You have done well to get 100,000 miles out of the cheap parts that Renault fitted to the Note.


I've got one, it goes through springs like an elephant goes through sticky buns. The subframe fell off last year because of poor design and manufacture, and it used to wear rear tyres very quickly because the back wheels pointed the wrong way, and I had to shim them back to the published figures.

cajef

Who did the MOT was it a garage or one of the quick fit types of centre who are notorious for doing unnecessary work?

_futurephil

It was from an independent garage.

I've had my MOT at KwikFit the last 3 years without any failures. This is the first year I've gone back to an independant one and I end up spending hundreds!

System

_futurephil wrote: »

I've had my MOT at KwikFit the last 3 years without any failures. This is the first year I've gone back to an independant one and I end up spending hundreds!

That's just the way the dice rolls sometimes. You've just happened to take it to an independent the time the car is coming up for a pile of repairs.

davidwood681

_futurephil wrote: »

It was from an independent garage.

I've had my MOT at KwikFit the last 3 years without any failures. This is the first year I've gone back to an independant one and I end up spending hundreds!

A larger bill was always over the horizon

motorguy

_futurephil wrote: »

Hi,

I've just had my MOT done yesterday. The car needed a rear tyre and the two front coils replaced. I had an advisory to replace the brake pads as they were looking slightly worn. Due to the high price they charged me for my coils I was looking to take it elsewhere and get them changed.

When I drove out of the MOT centre and got onto a straight road (less than a minute later) I could feel a humming sound from my car. I drove it home anyway and called the garage the next morning to tell them about the problem. I have now dropped it in and they have just phoned to say the wheel bearings have gone. I spoke to the man and he said they were fine during the MOT and it would have happened after I left.

I am quite suspicous of this and I would like to know where I stand before I hand over any money to repair it. Any advice?

I would say they've tightened up the wheel bearing to remove excessive play and thats causing it to hum now.

Not an unusual thing to do.

If they've had to tighten it too much, it hums. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesnt.