I was getting a very light whirring, rumble sound from what sounded like my front left for a week or three. It had a definite pitch change when you swerved right further supporting my theory.
I take off for work one morning and my subtle little noise went to a full out vibrating ROAR! It was so bad on my way home I shoved ear plugs in.
Given we're in the process of selling the house, the kids have been sick one after the other, etc., I didn't have the ambition to tear into it. I dropped it off at a trusted shop right around the corner.
OUCH! $452.29. It was the left rear bearing/hub assembly. $289.90 for the part, $126 labor, $36.39 for good old NY State sales tax. He had a hard time at first discerning which rear wheel it was, but obviously found it. It's probably hard to tell being AWD and having to spin the rear axle and such.
It was REAL bad. He even said it would have failed completely real soon. He showed me the old assembly and it was like rolling a bowling ball down a gravel driveway when you tried to spin it. What's scary is, it went from a mild noise to HORRENDOUS noise/vibs in a matter of a day.
He also said it was kind of a pain in the arse to do, because the exciter ring for the ABS is mounted in the way of the bolts you need to back out to remove the hub. He mentioned something about having to "lower everything out of the way" to R/R the hub.
I guess the moral of the story is; Hope and pray yours go out w/in the warranty period! I'm at ~63Kmi and the second owner. So I was just 3K over warranty.
Joel
I take off for work one morning and my subtle little noise went to a full out vibrating ROAR! It was so bad on my way home I shoved ear plugs in.
Given we're in the process of selling the house, the kids have been sick one after the other, etc., I didn't have the ambition to tear into it. I dropped it off at a trusted shop right around the corner.
OUCH! $452.29. It was the left rear bearing/hub assembly. $289.90 for the part, $126 labor, $36.39 for good old NY State sales tax. He had a hard time at first discerning which rear wheel it was, but obviously found it. It's probably hard to tell being AWD and having to spin the rear axle and such.
It was REAL bad. He even said it would have failed completely real soon. He showed me the old assembly and it was like rolling a bowling ball down a gravel driveway when you tried to spin it. What's scary is, it went from a mild noise to HORRENDOUS noise/vibs in a matter of a day.
He also said it was kind of a pain in the arse to do, because the exciter ring for the ABS is mounted in the way of the bolts you need to back out to remove the hub. He mentioned something about having to "lower everything out of the way" to R/R the hub.
I guess the moral of the story is; Hope and pray yours go out w/in the warranty period! I'm at ~63Kmi and the second owner. So I was just 3K over warranty.
Joel