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If what your mate says is correct then I'd imagine you'd need a new bearing everytime you turned a corner or a fast bend or even a roundabout, was it your mate that done your bearingtrannyheap wrote:My mate suggested I post this issue on the forum to see if anyone else has experienced the same as me. In the old days, when your vehicle was MOT'd they put it on a ramp, jacked up the front end and used a lever to check the suspension and steering joints. Nowadays the ramp has a couple of pads which at the touch of a button exert very severe sideways pressures on the wheels. On older Transit's with taper wheel bearings this would not be a problem, however the bearings on my mk7 are roller bearings which, I am advised by my mechanic mate, have little or no end float and not designed to take that type of movement. I replaced the front bearings around 25k mls ago, and there wasn't a sound coming from them before the MOT test, but immediately afterwords the horrendous bearing rumble was unmistakably that of a damaged bearing. I doubt that the MOT station would accept any liability, and as they are the only one reasonably locally I wouldn't want to fall out with them. I assume the testing equipment has to be approved by VOSA. Has anyone else suffered the same?
dumper wrote:Mine been through 8 mots and still on original bearing and done 150000 mls and being on the testing pads for all mots it’s had
Mr Ned you've changed.......just Ned noo.....ned wrote:You ain't seen how Mr Andz drives Cornering on 2 wheels N
I'm with you on this one jim AJim Archer wrote:I'd suggest 'your mate' might want to read up on Duplex Taper Roller bearings then ......
If the thrust/shaker plates have damaged the wheel bearing, it was going to fail shortly anyway.
Jim
Don't think I've seen one of them karl .....well not up the road in Glesga anywaykarl wrote:best advice is take it to a mot test station that only does mots and no work at all on any vehicles
andz327 wrote:dumper wrote:Mine been through 8 mots and still on original bearing and done 150000 mls and being on the testing pads for all mots it’s hadMr Ned you've changed.......just Ned noo.....ned wrote:You ain't seen how Mr Andz drives Cornering on 2 wheels N
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