Bearing failure I presume? Warranty?
One day left on a 3 week 2500 mile trip through 4 states. Pulled into our last CG yesterday and while my assistant was inside the office registering us, just for fun I thought I'd see what wheel temps were doing. Lo and behold, one brake drum near the hub was showing about 100F higher than the other 3. I thought maybe I wasn't quite doing it right.
Spent about 10-15 min. cruising around looking for a site and while stopped in front of a site, I checked again and it showed about 30F higher. Must be a bearing failure? Am I okay to limp about 50 miles home from hear at a slow speed off the interstate somewhere?
We took possession of our TT in Apr. of 2014. In Nov. of 2014 after 7 months of ownership, I took it into the dealer for a few warranty repairs. While in, I thought I would get them to pull the drums off and see what things look like. They said all 4 drums were contaminated with grease. After a bit of arguing and a call I made to ALKO, they agreed to rebuild all 4 wheels. Pretty sure it was caused by the dealing pumping grease into the axles during PDI. Maybe the bearing was originally damaged and they just re-used all of them?
So considering the circumstances of being rebuilt at 7 months should a bearing failure be covered under warranty? And I might add "allegedly" but who knows what dealer really did. A bearing shouldn't fail after only 10 months and maybe about 4K total miles this season so far? I wonder if another call to Alko would go anywhere? Have had a lot of trouble with our dealer on other things so I REALLY don't trust them to do much correctly.
Thing is as well, I wouldn't trust the dealer anyway at this point so maybe it is all irrelevant. In a way I'm okay with redoing all 4 wheels and I'd use the best bearings I could find, but it's getting late in the season and pretty soon it will be cold and wet out.
Have read about many a bearing failure and never thought it would happen to us. At least it's not a blowout.
Spent about 10-15 min. cruising around looking for a site and while stopped in front of a site, I checked again and it showed about 30F higher. Must be a bearing failure? Am I okay to limp about 50 miles home from hear at a slow speed off the interstate somewhere?
We took possession of our TT in Apr. of 2014. In Nov. of 2014 after 7 months of ownership, I took it into the dealer for a few warranty repairs. While in, I thought I would get them to pull the drums off and see what things look like. They said all 4 drums were contaminated with grease. After a bit of arguing and a call I made to ALKO, they agreed to rebuild all 4 wheels. Pretty sure it was caused by the dealing pumping grease into the axles during PDI. Maybe the bearing was originally damaged and they just re-used all of them?
So considering the circumstances of being rebuilt at 7 months should a bearing failure be covered under warranty? And I might add "allegedly" but who knows what dealer really did. A bearing shouldn't fail after only 10 months and maybe about 4K total miles this season so far? I wonder if another call to Alko would go anywhere? Have had a lot of trouble with our dealer on other things so I REALLY don't trust them to do much correctly.
Thing is as well, I wouldn't trust the dealer anyway at this point so maybe it is all irrelevant. In a way I'm okay with redoing all 4 wheels and I'd use the best bearings I could find, but it's getting late in the season and pretty soon it will be cold and wet out.
Have read about many a bearing failure and never thought it would happen to us. At least it's not a blowout.
