Wheel bearing problems?
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From: Upstate NY
Yea, I have to agree not a bad outcome...
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From: Illinois
I thought it was both sides? This dealership sounds shady to me. I would have taken it to another dealership (if there's another one close) and told them the situation. Tell them the other dealership wouldn't help you out and they'd probably be more than happy to take business from them. Those guys are pretty cut throat.
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Anybody have any issues with their front wheel bearings? I have a 2009 Ram 1500 Laramie. I had an ABS code for the left front sensor and a grinding noise in the front end that got louder when turning. Turns out that the bearing was bad and no longer under warranty because the truck has 48k miles. I replaced the hub, bearing and abs sensor, which fixed the problem with the abs, however the noise is still there. Dropped the truck off at the dealer and they tell me that both front wheel bearings are bad, including the one that is only a week old. I've opened a case # with Chrysler and am waiting to here back from them. Just wondering if anyone else has had any similar issues.
i would get a second opinion from a different dealership that knows wtf they`re doing.
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I thought it was both sides? This dealership sounds shady to me. I would have taken it to another dealership (if there's another one close) and told them the situation. Tell them the other dealership wouldn't help you out and they'd probably be more than happy to take business from them. Those guys are pretty cut throat.
Get someone else to look at it and see to it that they are more thorough in diagnoising the problem correctly.
Make them show you the problem and PROVE its the actual problem.
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From: Ontario, Canada
What about if you have an extended gold plan? I know it picks up some of the stuff that you lose at 3 years or 60000km's and 125 deductible that is new, never heard of that usually its 100 if any. Now you are installing the same crappy parts that failed you already. I would fork out the money go to my local front end shop that I deal with and have been for years and get lifetime warrantied parts put on. This is where I believe all the auto manufacturers cheap out on the ball joints, tierod, bearing etc. JMHO, even the higher end auto makers do the same and yet they get a way with it. I could be wrong but experience tells me that replacing parts that seemed to have a short lifespan with the same ones does not make sense to me, well unless I don't have to pay for it. Warranty and oil and fluid changes are the only thing I go to the dealer for, and of course RRT's, Warranty , TSB's. I wonder what happens when there is an RRT that would say cause the defroster to quit working now after 3 years I will have to pay for something that is a safety issue? Should be recall not RRT! We are gonna have to watch for that I believe.
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the wrap plan definetly covers them but the basic powertrain gets grey i guess. i re-read it and it says axle housing and all internal parts, axle shafts, axle shaft bearings, drive shaft assy's drive shaft bearings, universals and yolks .... a little shady since to me the wheel bearing really is the front axle shaft bearing but its an independant front not a straight axle ...