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Old 07-13-2003, 08:57 PM
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a humming mixed with a slight ticking kinda like if you mixed the sound of a baseball card flapping slightly on bike spokeswith a humming sound, coming out of the rear passenger side. I'm @ 121,000 miles, and have been quoted at $60 for a single bearing, so I'm thinking bout getting both rears done when I put on my new wheels.
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Thats pretty much what mine sounded like.
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be sure someone who knows what they are doing does the job as the ABS sensors can be damaged or may already have been by the failing bearing
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Not really, unless the bearing was allowing HUGE amounts of movement.
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Default If your wheel bearings are bad you would hear a low droaning noise
coming from the rear and would be most evident when turning.
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people who ignore the noise until... the wheel falls off??

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Default LOL... That's what it would take.. I suppose if the ABS sensor is too far in, it wouldn't take much
movement... I have only had one bearing go bad to the point of it having play.. Funny thing is it didn't make any noise.
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