Ford Fiesta Wheel Bearing Dilemma
Discussion
I've got this humming noise coming from the rear which starts about 25mph and seems to get louder the quicker I go. Has nothing to do with gears or brakes. Having looked around online it seems like its the rear wheel bearings in one of both rear wheels.
Does anyone know how long you can drive with a dodgy wheel bearing? I drive about 40 miles a day to work and thats the only thing I use the car for. Its an old car 02 reg and has done 127k miles and my MOT / insurance is up middle of September. I am also starting a new job in october which has a company car with it.
Im therefore not going to spend any money getting this fixed if its going to be max for a month and a half but do not want to continue driving it if its seriously unsafe (which im guessing it might be).
Any advice?
Does anyone know how long you can drive with a dodgy wheel bearing? I drive about 40 miles a day to work and thats the only thing I use the car for. Its an old car 02 reg and has done 127k miles and my MOT / insurance is up middle of September. I am also starting a new job in october which has a company car with it.
Im therefore not going to spend any money getting this fixed if its going to be max for a month and a half but do not want to continue driving it if its seriously unsafe (which im guessing it might be).
Any advice?
They can go at any time really, I bought a Clio 172 with a noisy bearing and got it fixed a few weeks later and it didn't get any worse in that time, on my Defender however it started to hum in the morning and collapsed a few hours later which locked the front wheel up and I nearly binned it
I had a Ford KA (think it was a 2002 in fact) that had the rear wheel bearing fail, that ended up being quite expensive! Luckily it was early Sunday morning and I was going very slowly at the time. It would have been a LOT cheaper to get it replaced and on Fords of that age isn't a hard job apparently, a little independent should be able to do it for not a lot and you'll feel more comfortable driving the car and selling it later.
If the noise IS a wheel bearing, it will gradually, over a period of time, get noisier. However, having been a mechanic for some 35 years, I was usually the one that was asked to diagnose various noises on customers cars when they came into any of the garages that I worked at.
I retired from mending cars many years ago and had a Citroen C3 that was the family car. On driving it around, for about a year, I convinced myself that the n/s/r wheel bearing was very noisy. This noise persisted until I needed new tyres on the rear. I took the car to have 2 tyres fitted and discovered that the n/s/r tyre had got a carcass malfunction and that the tyre was the cause of the 'whining' which I was convinced was a wheel bearing. New tyres fitted - noise disappeared.
I have no technical answer as to why the tyre was the reason for the whine. If someone had told me the self-same story, I would have poopooed it as ridiculous. Perhaps I'm NOT as clever as I think.......
I retired from mending cars many years ago and had a Citroen C3 that was the family car. On driving it around, for about a year, I convinced myself that the n/s/r wheel bearing was very noisy. This noise persisted until I needed new tyres on the rear. I took the car to have 2 tyres fitted and discovered that the n/s/r tyre had got a carcass malfunction and that the tyre was the cause of the 'whining' which I was convinced was a wheel bearing. New tyres fitted - noise disappeared.
I have no technical answer as to why the tyre was the reason for the whine. If someone had told me the self-same story, I would have poopooed it as ridiculous. Perhaps I'm NOT as clever as I think.......
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