£120 to change a wheel bearing

[iPap]

Is this right? My front left one?

 

[Pete]

Labour charges is what bumps it up!

 

[iPap]

Its a £12 for both bearings and then a 2 hour job at £45 + vat... (how I would work it out!)

Its a hour at most... Pants down by the sound of it?

 

[Pete]

Dont know how difficult it is to do on a Clio, but couldnt you do it yourself or with some help? I think John aka Night.Icon said it wasnt too difficult a job to do.

 

[iPap]

I may just strip it and take it to a local garage and get them to press it.

Ill give John a shout. Thanks.

 

[Matty]

When mine went got both done. Think it was about 26 quid each for bearings and about 1.5 hours for both sides, with the knackered bearing taking longest to remove. 2 hours seems excessive. I would stand and watch them to see how many cups of tea they have during the job !!!!

 

[Pete]

Were playing cars at mine on saturday if you need help with it. I think John mentioned that is doesnt need to be pressed, but I could be wrong.

 

[iPap]

Pete, may be a problem getting her there!

 

[night.icon]

well not difficult but u may have a job to get it off or on if its pressed on had them done on the williams and it was £50 a side so what u are paying about right

but if that is one side they are f**king u and u wont get a kiss afterwards

 

[Glennclio16v]

Yep the clio bearings are pressed can be removed/replaced with the aid of a mallet!!

Torsion Tuning do mine and charge £40 labour per bearing.

If you can get it to em call Jon on 07949200705

 

[Daz]

£40 is good, I paid like £80-£90 for one to be done on mine at a garage.

 

[night.icon]

i think he means on the fiat ???

 

[Red Valver]

If you want a hand then im about, no charge !

 

[iPap]

You have PM.

 

[Rajk]

my mechanic does them for £30 a side(labour)

 

[iPap]

Shockingly cheap!

 

[Alex M]

If you take the hubs off yourself (not that difficult, actually fairly straightforward, and then take your new bearings and the hubs to a garage with a press, then it will only take them 10 mins to press old ones out and put new ones in, then put hubs back on yourself. My local garage only charged me a tenner for this, which with bearing being fairly cheap, you can get whole thing done for £50. They can be put in and out with a mallet and some correctly sized sockets or thick walled tubing, but I hate hammering anything like that, press makes it so easy! So reckon above is defo the best way to get it done cheap

 

[montana]

yeah i got mine done (n/s) for £45 including the bearing!

 

[Fred@BTM]

I pay £20 - £30 with my mechanc mate neil