Her Ladyship's FL2 is now on its 5th left rear wheel bearing from factory delivery November 2009.

What has been your experience of the FL2's wheel bearings. As I am seeking a statistical analysis please use the poll provided.

Also can you comment when you have experienced multiple failures whether the replaced bearing has been fitted to the same wheel or a different wheel.
Thank You.

I bought my FL2 from Perrys at Barnsley (Perrys owns Rocar Moores in Huddersfield). Me and the wife took the car for a test drive before we bought it. Everything was fine. The wife noticed a nail in one tyre. No problem the garage would fix that. Turns out the locking wheel nut was missing so they sent the car over to Rocar Moores to have locking wheel nut removed and replaced and tyre issue sorted.

Apparently while at Rocar Moores the mechanic noticed a wheel bearing needed replacing. Both myself and the sales man heard nothing on the test drive. Touch wood everything has been fine since. Black MY2013 SD4 GS Auto, Wood Company Armrest, Freel2 sticker.
Gone MY2010 Freelander 2 Manual TD4.e S, Alaska White.

Observation
Just spent 10 minutes trawling through FreeL2 database and there are plenty of members with tales of woe re failed wheel bearings - some at very low mileage. In addition many report that the position of the failed bearing was N/S/R which is exactly the same location of our failures.

Why then so few folks willing so far to take part in a poll

Just voted
Just a thought; FL2 is prone to the handbrake seizing, not fully but enough to cause the drum to get hot.
I'm wondering if this is the cause of wheel bearing failures as the heat from the drum can dry out the bearing grease.
You also mention the nearside rear; it gets more crud than the offside and my handbrake seized due to corrosion on the nearside only. Another member of the failed FL2 clutch/DMF club, twice.

Front off side bearing

Only been up 8 or 9 hours, maybe not everyone has seen it or no longer are on the forum, give it more time

Shortly after my wife bought her freelander 2 with 60k miles on the clock I was convinced it needed a new rear wheel bearing but a change of tyres/wheels and 40k more miles and all is still well Black FL2
L200 Warrior

Pegleg - thanks for your observation re the crud n handbrake. Back in June'13 when the latest garage replaced the knackered DMF under warranty they also replaced both sides rear brake discs/drums pads/shoes of which we had to pay for, and at the same time installed N/S/R number 4 wheel bearing. After that renewal of the brake sets that bearing fail after only 8 months and was replaced by bearing number 5.

WarriorBez
Ah the tyres - yes 3 different official LR Dealers told us is the tyres. To date we have run two sets of 3 season tyres (Goodyear replaced last summer with Pirelli) and two sets of dedicated winter tyres (Conti and last November with Nokian) and we also run two sizes of alloys: 17" for winter and 18" for the rest of the year. Despite this the noise remains constant. Tyres can be discounted as the source of our 4yr+ rear noise.

npinks
Valid point - too early to judge participation.

Thanks to all of you for commenting - appreciated.