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[davethediver]

you can tighten it up a wee bit to get play out but not alot if its to far gone

It was originally done in october, I have travelled about 500miles since.

I hope it's not the cause of the shock absorber leaking and tyre wear as these all failed the car too on the same wheel as the bearing!

Thats half a week for me, wish i could do that in a few months would much prefer your fuel bill 

[tunnie]

you can tighten it up a wee bit to get play out but not alot if its to far gone

It was originally done in october, I have travelled about 500miles since.

I hope it's not the cause of the shock absorber leaking and tyre wear as these all failed the car too on the same wheel as the bearing!

Thats half a week for me, wish i could do that in a few months would much prefer your fuel bill 

Same here, thats only 100 miles a month! 

[sparkyw666.]

you can tighten it up a wee bit to get play out but not alot if its to far gone

It was originally done in october, I have travelled about 500miles since.

I hope it's not the cause of the shock absorber leaking and tyre wear as these all failed the car too on the same wheel as the bearing!

is there alot of play or just a wee bit ?

[Impact Pete]

you can tighten it up a wee bit to get play out but not alot if its to far gone

It was originally done in october, I have travelled about 500miles since.

I hope it's not the cause of the shock absorber leaking and tyre wear as these all failed the car too on the same wheel as the bearing!

Thats half a week for me, wish i could do that in a few months would much prefer your fuel bill 

I drive a van during week, the wife is still scared of the car so it's used weekends, towing and when I'm fed up with lack of power from van! wish I could afford to use it every day.

[Impact Pete]

you can tighten it up a wee bit to get play out but not alot if its to far gone

It was originally done in october, I have travelled about 500miles since.

I hope it's not the cause of the shock absorber leaking and tyre wear as these all failed the car too on the same wheel as the bearing!

is there alot of play or just a wee bit ?

Too much for my liking, I would say at the edge of wheel 8-10mm movement!

[sparkyw666.]

i dont think you could get that out by tighting it up tbh

[alank46]

Hi
Sounds like they did not get the bearing fully home when first fitted, its a bloody tight fit.  It is tightened from the drive shaft side after unbolting the drive shaft.  With luck that should do it.
Alan

you can tighten it up a wee bit to get play out but not alot if its to far gone

It was originally done in october, I have travelled about 500miles since.

I hope it's not the cause of the shock absorber leaking and tyre wear as these all failed the car too on the same wheel as the bearing!

[feeutfo]

you can tighten it up a wee bit to get play out but not alot if its to far gone

It was originally done in october, I have travelled about 500miles since.

I hope it's not the cause of the shock absorber leaking and tyre wear as these all failed the car too on the same wheel as the bearing!

is there alot of play or just a wee bit ?

Too much for my liking, I would say at the edge of wheel 8-10mm movement!

gaw, thats not good. Did they use genuine parts?
From what i gather its a pig of a job, and probably easier to change the whole arm for one with a good baring.

[Impact Pete]

you can tighten it up a wee bit to get play out but not alot if its to far gone

It was originally done in october, I have travelled about 500miles since.

I hope it's not the cause of the shock absorber leaking and tyre wear as these all failed the car too on the same wheel as the bearing!

is there alot of play or just a wee bit ?

Too much for my liking, I would say at the edge of wheel 8-10mm movement!

gaw, thats not good. Did they use genuine parts?
From what i gather its a pig of a job, and probably easier to change the whole arm for one with a good baring.

Not sure about genuine parts, they did get wrong one initially then I reckon rushed job as promised to give it us back by weekend. I'm also suspicious of what damage was caused getting old one out, they said they had to warm it up a quite a bit as it had pretty much started to weld itself in. I also struggled to get the wheel on and off after looks like the ring in middle of hub to locate the wheel is slightly warped.
Now I have wrote that I'm wondering if it was the wheel bearing or they hadn't put the wheel back properly due to the locating problem, one of the wheel nuts was extremely tight coming out.

I will be putting the wheel back later when the new tyres fitted If I make sure the wheel is back on properly then I can check again for play.

[Matchless]

The spigot or ring on the hub is what centralises the wheel, if it was damaged or distorted when the bearings were changed then you need to get it replaced.

[feeutfo]

breaker in heathrow has complete rear arms on ebay i noticed. Might be time to cut your losses, your garage clearly are struggling and its only going to get worse the more they break about with it.

[Impact Pete]

breaker in heathrow has complete rear arms on ebay i noticed. Might be time to cut your losses, your garage clearly are struggling and its only going to get worse the more they break about with it.

might have a think about that but I have not payed for the work on bearing yet so have a bit of leaverage.

Bit concerned why when I relined the brakes in the summer the centre ring was fine and why they would distort it taking old bearing out.