Hello folks,
Please bear with me on this one.
I have a 56 VW Passat which recently started to develop a humming noise that seemed to be coming from the front driver tyre area. At first I thought it was tyre pressures so checked that, nothing.
Took the car to a Kwik Fit and they said its the wheel bearing.
Took the car to a Halfords Autocentre, they said the same thing, so got the work done on the front right tyre.
Just a few weeks before this, the car developed a different fault (Engine light came on). Took it to VW, it was the intake manifold which needed to be replaced. Fair game, job done.
Now incidentally, the noise that I mentioned earlier was there before any of the aforementioned work was done.
At this point, the noise is still there... so took it back to Halfords and they took it out for a test and they were 99% certain its BOTH real wheel bearings.
So again asked them to do it.... but alas, the noise is still there.
Now I am lumbered with a £500 bill with Halfords for work which did not solve the problem in the first place and I am not sure if I have any leg to stand on with Halfords in that they didint fix the problem I brought the car in for ( even though they maintain that the wheel bearings needed changing but all 3 of them???)
Your input appreciated folks.
Please bear with me on this one.
I have a 56 VW Passat which recently started to develop a humming noise that seemed to be coming from the front driver tyre area. At first I thought it was tyre pressures so checked that, nothing.
Took the car to a Kwik Fit and they said its the wheel bearing.
Took the car to a Halfords Autocentre, they said the same thing, so got the work done on the front right tyre.
Just a few weeks before this, the car developed a different fault (Engine light came on). Took it to VW, it was the intake manifold which needed to be replaced. Fair game, job done.
Now incidentally, the noise that I mentioned earlier was there before any of the aforementioned work was done.
At this point, the noise is still there... so took it back to Halfords and they took it out for a test and they were 99% certain its BOTH real wheel bearings.
So again asked them to do it.... but alas, the noise is still there.
Now I am lumbered with a £500 bill with Halfords for work which did not solve the problem in the first place and I am not sure if I have any leg to stand on with Halfords in that they didint fix the problem I brought the car in for ( even though they maintain that the wheel bearings needed changing but all 3 of them???)
Your input appreciated folks.