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How Many Rear Wheel Bearings Have Failed On Your FL2
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21%
 21%  [7]
2
3%
 3%  [1]
3
3%
 3%  [1]
4
3%
 3%  [1]
5+
3%
 3%  [1]
None so far
66%
 66%  [22]
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athelstan



Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: Reality
Posts: 2658

How Many Failed Wheel Bearing?

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.

Post #217831 24th Feb 2014 12:07 pm
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Stevie5tapes



Member Since: 10 Jun 2012
Location: Brighouse, YORKSHIRE
Posts: 1370

England 2013 Freelander 2 TD4_e GS Auto Sumatra Black

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.

Post #217840 24th Feb 2014 12:55 pm
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athelstan



Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
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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 Question

Post #217887 24th Feb 2014 8:58 pm
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Pegleg



Member Since: 15 Apr 2010
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Wales 2008 Freelander 2 TD4 GS Manual Santorini Black

Just voted Thumbs Up
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.

Post #217891 24th Feb 2014 9:09 pm
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npinks



Member Since: 28 Jun 2007
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United Kingdom 

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

Post #217893 24th Feb 2014 9:15 pm
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WarriorBez



Member Since: 29 Jan 2012
Location: rugby
Posts: 539

England 2007 Freelander 2 TD4 GS Manual Sumatra Black

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

Post #217894 24th Feb 2014 9:17 pm
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athelstan



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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.

Post #217896 24th Feb 2014 9:34 pm
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