rear wheel bearings

[FarmerPug]

how much does it cost to put rear wheel bearings in my car (independant garage) could i do it myself and is it normal to change on or do the 2 at the same time. This noise has occured 2 weeks after passing the mot, what a great thorough test.

[plod]

My Mate did both rear ones on mine in 40 mins

I gave him £40 for the honour

When I say bearings, it's the hubs, as you can't change the bearings on their own, it has to be the whole unit.

I paid £46 IIRC each, so cost me £132 to get the job done.

[Welly]

That's cheap

[FarmerPug]

Righteo it is cheap indeed, well ill leave it till the wheel falls off before changing its only noticeable with the car fully loaded and taking bends.

[mozartprodigy]

Done the rear wheel hub myself - cost about £35 for the part (in the trade) and needs a massive socket to take the hub nut off. I think it was something like 35mm or 40mm IIRC. Not much to it really! Good luck!

P.S - I wouldnt bother changing the other if there is no noise from it. The hubs are'nt really a weak point for the Pug.

[plod]

What happened with mine was thus

I ordered a hub for a 99 car - which mine is
Only that wasn't quite right, as despite d8's going up to 99, they listed them as up to 98

So ended up with a wrong tooth count on the hub
Ended up with a ABS fault, but took couple of months to find out the hub count was wrong though.
In that time, the other bearing started to go.

Hence why I ended up having both mine done at the same time.

You might only do one now, but these things have a funny habit of happening in pairs