Rear Wheel Bearing Noise

[irish_ram]

For a start it looks like I don't have all the tools

From looking at tutorials it seems to need

Rachet set for wheel nuts
Two spanners for the caliper
Screwdriver
Hammer
M14 and M18 Triple Spline

So I have all of these apart from the M18 Spline 

[SiofChester]

Yeah, the m18 socket is only a fiver or so on ebay


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[irish_ram]

Anyone now a good source for these M Sockets as cannot seem to find an M18 to purchase on its own

[rich83]

Caliper? You don't need to remove the brakes

[irish_ram]

Caliper? You don't need to remove the brakes

I thought you did, in the videos I have watched it removed the Brake Caliper I presume so the Brake disc can be removed and then the bearing slid off?

[rich83]

Sorry. Ignore me. For some reason I thought you were replacing the shocks. Not enough sleep 

[irish_ram]

Probably going to leave it to the garage as the bolts were so seized it took me until now to get the wheels off. Then tried for ages on one of the bolts on calipers and not budging 

I may just get a wheel bearing for £40 and my cv boot is gone so £13 and then get a garage to do me a good deal on labour as would take them no more than a couple of hours to replace

[doylebros]

Probably going to leave it to the garage as the bolts were so seized it took me until now to get the wheels off. Then tried for ages on one of the bolts on calipers and not budging 

I may just get a wheel bearing for £40 and my cv boot is gone so £13 and then get a garage to do me a good deal on labour as would take them no more than a couple of hours to replace

A wise move as the carrier bolts quite often require enough access to get a breaker bar in and that means height off the ground if you've not got access to a ramp!
The jobs are easy jobs but only if you've got the equipment which makes it easy.

[pudding]

Did the bearing on my ED30 a few months back.  I bought the spline tool for the main centre bolt from VW at £12. VW don't like selling their tools to the public, but you can usually twist the parts man's arm and get away with it.  They're the best quality tools for the job in my experience.

The bearing/hub assembly was £110.  Not sure where these £40 bearings are coming from but I only use genuine stuff on critical components.  Don't trust cheap copy stuff.

The centre bolt is done up real tight, so I bought a 3 foot 3/4" breaker bar from Machine Mart for £20.   The caliper carrier spline tool I already had, so in total the job cost me less than £150 and took less than an hour.  It's dead easy.  Just need the right tools and plenty of leverage for the centre bolt as it's a lb-ft rating + 180 degrees iirc.  Feels like the bolt will snap, but it doesn't!

[marko]

I appear to have a passenger side rear bearing noise.
From what I see there is 2 different types...30mm and 32mm.
Is there anything I can do bar having car on stand all day while I run around getting the right part.im guessing mine has the 32mm bearing but wouldn't really want it striped to find I have the wrong one.
Any advice?...ie...would vin number indicate which size the car has?

[SiofChester]

The bearing/hub assembly was £110.  Not sure where these £40 bearings are coming from but I only use genuine stuff on critical components.  Don't trust cheap copy stuff.

From my local factors, used them a few times, never had a failure reported