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I keep putting this in replies. so I will just make a quick post once and hopefully get the message across. If you keep having front wheel bearing failures, and you are sure the mechanic is replacing the bearing correctly(have it done at the dealer, trust me), then the problem is not the bearing, its because your car is one of the ones, either Rio or Sephia that came from the factory with a defective front hub.
Replace the hub on the wheel that keeps having the problem and the problem is no more. Its been over a year on the right front and no more failures, and now 3 months on the left front with no problems and the car feels so much better with the bad left front hub gone, its amazing. Before this, my wheel bearings would last about 3 weeks before they started to go again. All I had to do was take one sharp turn and you could hear it start to scrape inside the hub.
I'm sure I'm right, I replaced every part of the car from the transmission out to the front wheels and tires and nothing helped until I replaced the hubs. They were defective right from the factory, thats why its such a common problem.
Good luck
Byron
Thank you for your post Byron. After reading all of the threads on here about wheel bearing problems, I've been wondering if/when my 2001 Rio was going to start giving me problems. Your post gives me hope that I might not be affected and a solution if I am.
It's just a shame that you had to go through all of that trouble before you found the answer.
Did you have a perpetual rumbling noise from the front end, as if you had tires with an aggressive tread on them, leading up to a bearing failure. I'm trying to determine if my
"03 is experiencing the same problem
I forget when mine started to go out around. Kia replaced them under warranty. I think they went out again around 96,000 miles. Kia replaced them again.
By 106,000 miles or something, they were grinding AGAIN.
I took it back to the shop, and even though it was past 100,000 miles, the bearings still had a warranty on them, so they fixed them again.
They said they were doing something a little different this time.
Nice to hear about someone not having problems with bearings... I wonder if we can have a sticky started on owners having problems with bearings and alternators (mileage), also, with respect to location and geographic temps (cold, snow vs. hot, dry areas)
Wheel Bearings Problems Solved For Good
Sure this will come in handy.
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