First Car making odd sound at speed Wheel misalignment or wheel bearing ?

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I've had my first car as a new driver for about 3 weeks now (I left it late being 34 to get my license) . After getting over the stress's of being anew driver I noticed at speed my car makes a odd rumbling sound. I will link dash cam footage below where you can hear it.

Car seems to handle fine , its a 07 Ford Focus 1.6L TCDI Diesel with just over 100k on the clock (brought it off a work colleague who had to move back to Italy for £500) it passed MOT on April the 30th but and a advisory from a couple of the suspension Arm ball joints ? being warn

Thanks for any help you can give

 
If your able to jack the wheel up try and turn the wheel by hand it should fairly smoothly turn any grinding noise or resistance then possibly wheel bearing. Other things are back plate rubbing against hub, brake caliper seized or disks or pads busted.
 
KillBoY_UK said:
ahhh nuts, sound expensive, get it fixed sooner rather than later ?
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Pretty cheap, bearings are a couple of quid and shouldn't take a garage long to whip the wheel off, press the old one out and press the new one in.
Definitely want it sorted sooner though, you don't want a collapsed bearing.
 
tom_e said:
Pretty cheap, bearings are a couple of quid and shouldn't take a garage long to whip the wheel off, press the old one out and press the new one in.
Definitely want it sorted sooner though, you don't want a collapsed bearing.
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What sort of money are we looking at ?
 
jsmoke said:
If your able to jack the wheel up try and turn the wheel by hand it should fairly smoothly turn any grinding noise or resistance then possibly wheel bearing. Other things are back plate rubbing against hub, brake caliper seized or disks or pads busted.
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The video I linked was me driving back from picking up a tool kit and jacks infact, I will try and jack it up at the weekend
 
More than £50. I had one done by a mobile mechanic recently for £100 and I supplied the bearing. Got it for £17 on ebay. Dealer would be three times that price for the actual bearing.
 
Depends if it's a front or rear bearing. Rear is easiest, just remove wheel & then hub nut - pull off drum - remove circlip & press out old bearing - press in new bearing & fit new circlip - replace drum tighten hub nut and put wheel back on.
Front is much more complicated involving removal of hub carrier from car before bearing can be accessed. You'll need this done at a garage I'm afraid as it requires use of a six ton press and whilst getting a rear done might get you change from £50 a front will be over £100.
 
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jsmoke said:
More than £50. I had one done by a mobile mechanic recently for £100 and I supplied the bearing. Got it for £17 on ebay. Dealer would be three times that price for the actual bearing.
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Mobile mechanic being the keyword here. They're always considerably more expensive.
 
ron3003 said:
Depends if it's a front or rear bearing. Rear is easiest, just remove wheel & then hub nut - pull off drum - press out old bearing - press in new bearing - replace drum tighten hub nut and put wheel back on.
Front is much more complicated involving removal of hub carrier from car before bearing can be accessed. You'll need this done at a garage I'm afraid as it requires use of a six ton press and whilst getting a rear done might get you change from £50 a front will be over £100.
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I don't have the tools/exp to do quite that much myself (no press for sure), going to try and jack up the car (first time ever) at the weekend are check the wheel for give.

Just went round the to my nearest recommended mechanic and hey think it be £130 ish for a front bearing.
 
Sounds right, as a new driver you'd be unlikely to have accumulated the tools required for such work. Even I would take the drum or front carrier to my local garage for the pressing in and out as it's such a rare job it's not worth buying the equipment.
 
Problem is getting the bearing out, it will split in two and you need to use an angle grinder to cut a bit of the race off and chisel the rest out. It can be done with hand puller and presser tools though. Plenty of vids on yt.

If you do do it yourself triple check your buying the right part and make sure the bearing goes in the correct side first so the magnetic ring lines up with the abs sensor also take care not to damage the abs sensor when you remove it to pull the hub off.
 
jsmoke said:
Problem is getting the bearing out, it will split in two and you need to use an angle grinder to cut a bit of the race off and chisel the rest out. It can be done with hand puller and presser tools though. Plenty of vids on yt.

If you do do it yourself triple check your buying the right part and make sure the bearing goes in the correct side first so the magnetic ring lines up with the abs sensor also take care not to damage the abs sensor when you remove it to pull the hub off.
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no way im going to do this as a first every job on a car, my wing mirror and oil need replacing Ill do them first lol. Got my final quote £155 and they check all the others and see if its something else
 
ron3003 said:
Sounds right, as a new driver you'd be unlikely to have accumulated the tools required for such work. Even I would take the drum or front carrier to my local garage for the pressing in and out as it's such a rare job it's not worth buying the equipment.
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I picked up a 200 bit set of tools and jacks and some other bits (wirebrushes, copper grease, wd40, hanes manual etc come to think about it I need a hammer) with the intention for doing some repair and maintenance jobs myself. I might be a noob with cars atm but I don't want to be one of these dudes who can't even change oil. Its about having a basic understanding of my car and saving money in the long run as well.
 
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