Does this quote for wheel bearings (parts/labour) sound right?

[TW]Fox;17520218 said:
Back street garages and recognised independent specialists in a marque are not quite the same thing.
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its a wheel bearing.

Not a VANOS rebuild.

Some things are going to require specialist knowledge. A wheel bearing isnt one of them.


Just make sure you use one you can trust. One recommended by a friend / neighbour etc..
 
Give Thorney Motorsport a ring, I hear they specialise in high performance stuff..

;)


Or sensibly, get on a Nissan forum and ask for recommended garages.. Or phone the Indy, ask for a parts/labour breakdown in the bill, and see if they are overcharging you for parts or labour or both, and negotiate?
 
Firestar_3x said:
If you've got to press them in and out of the hub i agree, but if you have to change the whole hub it's not a bad job at all.
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if your just going to change the entire hub assembly you could do it yourself dead easy.

Remove Wheel, Remove Brake Caliper, Remove Disk, unscrew hub, repeat in reverse order with the new one.


The notion you need some kind of Nissan Specialist to do this is ridiculous, but then i guess we all know fox, and for fox everything has to be just right.


Janesy B said:
Why? Brakes are pretty much foolproof...
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This

even i manage to do my own braks and i'm no mechanic. Its all nuts and bolts at the end of the day. If you can put a PC together, (which most of us on here can judging by Will's thread) you can take your brakes apart.
 
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MrLOL said:
if your just going to change the entire hub assembly you could do it yourself dead easy.

Remove Wheel, Remove Brake Caliper, Remove Disk, unscrew hub, repeat
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It's not normally quite that easy :p

Bolts might be rusted up and shear, end of the world etc :p

£1k does seem like a lot. My Teg is totally different but I can get front bearings for £40 and the rear hub assemblies are around £100+ each. Shouldn't be more than a few hours work for a garage.
 
Removing the hubnut / hubbolt then putting a new one back in and torquing it to 280nm or whatever you require is sometimes a sticking point for the home diyist.

Its not a bad job in truth even on an akward car like mine, it would have taken me 30mins per side to remove if the pinch bolts hadn't welded themselves in place :p
 
MrLOL said:
If you can put a PC together, (which most of us on here can judging by Will's thread) you can take your brakes apart.
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It's not a difficult job if you have some semblance of mechanical ability (and the relevant tools), but I wouldn't go that far. What the worst that can go wrong when you build a PC? A bit of smoke and an expensive learning exercise. I'm certain there are plenty of people that could get a PC working that wouldn't be competent to strip and rebuild a set of brakes without supervision.
 
I have to disagree with the "wheel hub change is easy on all cars" comments.
The hubs on my old 540i were an absolute pig as they are bolted from the rear, with the strut obscuring the bolts.
The job involved:
Jack car
Remove wheel
Remove caliper
Remove disc
Remove wheel speed sensor and move loom
Unbolt LCA and support with jack
Unbolt ARB
Unbolt UCA
Upbolt shock pinch nuts on hub
Whack lower hub assy with large mallett many, many times
Obtain new, lead-filled, rubber mallet and continue whacking
Slide hub assy over bottom of shock until bolts are visible
Undo bolts
Remove hub
Assembly is the opposite except I had to become a contortionist and get hold of a short-arm torque wrench to get the clearance to be able to torque the hub bolts up properly..
Took me about 3 hours the first time I did it and I'm no noob with the old spanners. After I'd done one, I got it down to 2hrs on the other side.
 
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Parts have been ordered for £195 per hub, labour is being charged at £36/hr. People doing it are good mechanics and its a relatives company. Wonder how long the job will be.
 
obviously there are going to be exceptions. But if you can remove the hub assembly from the front, its a relatively uncomplex job.

As already said, it can get tricky if everything is rusted / welded together, but its not comlex changing the hub assembly. With some air tools like a garage will have, that job becomes even easier still.

There's no need to get a specialist to change a wheel bearing.


Kristoph said:
Parts have been ordered for £195 per hub, labour is being charged at £36/hr. People doing it are good mechanics and its a relatives company. Wonder how long the job will be.
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that sounds very reasonable. Even better that its a relative's company :)
 
for a wheel bearing fox ?

Theres no specialist knowledge required to change a wheel bearing. Just some patience and the right tools, which any garage will have.

If we're talking diagnoising an issue that causes a 350Z to mysteriously throw up a traction control error or something, maybe, as it will be specific to the car. But not a wheel bearing.

But then i dont you'd trust any back street garage for anything given your previous comments about them.
 
MrLOL said:
for a wheel bearing fox ?
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For anything. They can stick to fixing W reg Fiestas and saying 'it dont matta mate' about using OEM parts on an Astra, my Nissan 350Z would go to a respected and well known independent to whom it wouldnt be an out of the ordinary car for them to see.

But then i dont you'd trust any back street garage for anything given your previous comments about them.
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Correct, given how dishonest many of them are. A reasonably flash car at a back street place? No thanks.
 
Yes and i did. Got the clutch done by one no problem.

Clutch + slave cylinder were GM (sourced myself form autovaux) parts and cost just over £200. Got the labour done for £350 @ £50 an hour.
 
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