Wheel Bearings Packed? Yearly Maintenance
How often do you have the wheel bearings packed on your trailer? And do you take it in for a yearly maintenance inspection?
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My experience to date on 3 TTs is that on two of them, grease leaked into the brakes and all 4 wheels had to be totally rebuilt. Both were rebuilt under warranty. Not encouraging statistics. In each case, it was a different axle manufacturer.
I took our current TT into the dealer last month (7 months old at that point) for some warranty work and with all the negative things I've read about seals and bearings, I thought it would be a good idea to get the brakes checked out along with a bearing inspection and repack. Good thing I asked because as it turned out, ALL 4 brakes had grease in them. At first the dealer said this would not be a warranty item but then I phoned the axle manufacturer and they got covered in the end. Don't know if it was faulty manufacturing or from the dealer pumping grease into the axles.
I no longer trust anything to do with the bearings, seals or brakes. Once the warranty has expired, I will probably do a bearing repack myself. Whether I do it myself or pay a shop the $250 or so it would cost, I will get it done annually. I'll never put grease in the EZ-lube axles either.
I took our current TT into the dealer last month (7 months old at that point) for some warranty work and with all the negative things I've read about seals and bearings, I thought it would be a good idea to get the brakes checked out along with a bearing inspection and repack. Good thing I asked because as it turned out, ALL 4 brakes had grease in them. At first the dealer said this would not be a warranty item but then I phoned the axle manufacturer and they got covered in the end. Don't know if it was faulty manufacturing or from the dealer pumping grease into the axles.
I no longer trust anything to do with the bearings, seals or brakes. Once the warranty has expired, I will probably do a bearing repack myself. Whether I do it myself or pay a shop the $250 or so it would cost, I will get it done annually. I'll never put grease in the EZ-lube axles either.
