nadrealista

Any advice how to go about doing this?

How many hours of labor I can expect shop to charge me for front or rear wheel bearing replacement?

Thanks
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JasonS4+Festicle

disappear when swerving one way or the other.

AdamS4

i recently just had a bad wheel bearing

it was a rear one. one day, when you accelerated, a loud, almost "grinding" noise happened. at first, i thought it was my exhuast?

it got much louder and became annoying. IMHO you should be able to hear it even with loud tires (my tires are fairly loud too)

chime in if i'm wrong/missing anything

(bad wheel bearings seem to be a common these cars, mine went around 60k miles, my grandpa in his 80s who babies his s4 had his go around 45k) - good luck

nadrealista

especially if I am bringing it to a slow stop with light brake aplication. this grinding can be felt frough steering wheel as well.

First I thought it was the brakes but it is present even when car rolls slowly without brake aplication.

This makes me think I have a bad wheel bearing in front. From what I can tell by sound it comes from passenger side.

When I make a sharper left turn(loading pass side) noise increses.

What do you guys think?

JasonS4+Festicle

does it go away when you turn right?

WindyCityS4

use a mechanics stethiscope to see if any bearing is louder than the others.

nadrealista

but tires are so noisy that they mask most of the change..

RKA

If the bearing is bad, you'll feel a little play in the wheel as you tug at it.

JasonS4+Festicle

bah, just use a real one like I do.

WindyCityS4

That could be TRE or control arms also, not just the bearing.