Saturn wheel bearings

Discussion in 'General Motoring' started by misterfact, Jul 19, 2010.

  1. misterfact

    misterfact Guest

    how long should a good quality front wheel bearing last on a Saturn
    Station wagon(2000)

    which are good quality and which are poor?

    Thanks

    Mike
     
    misterfact, Jul 19, 2010
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  2. misterfact

    Oppie Guest

    I've got 160K on mine (lw300 2001) and still no sign of getting weak.
     
    Oppie, Jul 20, 2010
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  3. misterfact

    IYM Guest

    The only Saturn I know with any bearing issues whatsoever was/is the
    Vue...Never heard of anyone having to replace bearings that early on any
    S-series....Now my Vue's front bearings? That's a whole other story,
    but the short of it is - make sure your rotors aren't warped, and keep
    them from warping. Warped rotors seem to beat the snot out of an
    borderline design limit bearing, and the best way to keep them from
    warping is to make sure some monkey doesn't unequally over torque the
    living crap out of the lug nuts when you have work, new tires or even
    annual inspections done. When you get home, loosen the lugs and
    retighten in the right pattern to the right torque (100 ft/lb for the Vue)

    I'm on the 3rd set of front bearings now. The originals went at 35K
    soon after rotors warped. Replacement Timken Bearings went only 20K
    miles later. Both times, the rotors had warped (after an inspection the
    1st time, and new tires installed the 2nd time) within 5-8K miles and
    the bearings started making "snow tire" noise right after that. In both
    cases, I had to jump on a lug wrench to loosen the lug nuts. After that,
    I replaced with the same Timken bearings, new rotors and pads with
    everything torqued right and I've gone 50K now without any problems.
    All I do is make sure I re-torque after anyone touches anything...

    Just an opinion, and I may get shot down, but it seems to work for me.
    I have my Pops doing the same thing on his Vue from the begining, and he
    has no problems. He's replaced the pads several times (he's rough on
    brakes) and never had a problem with rotors or bearings with 60K miles
    so far....
     
    IYM, Jul 20, 2010
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