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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: mel on 13 October 2011, 11:03:22

Title: wheel bearings
Post by: mel on 13 October 2011, 11:03:22

I had to replace rear nearside wheel bearing at 63,000 miles and rear offside at 72,000 miles. That was December 2009 and August 2010 respectively.
Rear offside has gone again at 86,000 miles. Admittedly done a bit more mileage this last year but has anyone else suffered this repeat problem so soon and any clues as to what's going wrong? Is it time to get rid?
03 reg Omega 2.6CDX Estate - had since 20,000 miles, 3 years old - previous owner towed caravan and fitted Monroe air suspension assist.

Title: Re: wheel bearings
Post by: serek on 13 October 2011, 11:19:07

Quote from: mel on 13 October 2011, 11:03:22

I had to replace rear nearside wheel bearing at 63,000 miles and rear offside at 72,000 miles. That was December 2009 and August 2010 respectively.
Rear offside has gone again at 86,000 miles. Admittedly done a bit more mileage this last year but has anyone else suffered this repeat problem so soon and any clues as to what's going wrong? Is it time to get rid?
03 reg Omega 2.6CDX Estate - had since 20,000 miles, 3 years old - previous owner towed caravan and fitted Monroe air suspension assist.

maybe poor quality bearings, or wrong fitting.

Title: Re: wheel bearings
Post by: aaronjb on 13 October 2011, 11:21:25

There have been a few threads recently about similar problems with every make of aftermarket bearing folks have tried; the only people who seem to have had real success have fitted genuine GM from Vauxhall.. where did yours come from?

Title: Re: wheel bearings
Post by: Elite Pete on 13 October 2011, 11:59:00

Did you use the correct bearing, the estate is different than the saloon

Title: Re: wheel bearings
Post by: lozzy on 13 October 2011, 12:11:53

im still on my original bearings

Ive only used GM parts on my omega

Title: Re: wheel bearings
Post by: mel on 13 October 2011, 13:15:55

Thanks for all your replies.
Bearings were fitted by my local Unipart carcare centre who do all my servicing etc.
Parts used are down as Hub Bearing Kit GHK1348. Does this mean anything to you?

I will also check they are getting correct bearing.

Title: Re: wheel bearings
Post by: kcl on 13 October 2011, 13:16:52

I've changed three rear wheel bearings to my estates and all new ones have been SKF products. One was re-replacement, started to whistle after some 50 000 kilometres. And I'm quite convinced it was properly installed, very little chance to have it installed wrong, in my opinion at least.

The latest one, to my current car was very funny one: put in the new and still have play in it. No noise etc but still there's play in axial (in-out) direction. No much but feelable. Nut is tight, bearing fully home, I'm really confused. And, to add, never ever had any other cars with similar type of wheel bearings that I had to replace under 300 000 kilometers... Whats wrong with Omega design?