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  1. 5th October 2010, 04:40 PM #1
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    Unhappy Wheel Bearing damage during transit (Non LR)

    We have just moved from NSW (Orange) to WA (Bunbury). We have a sedan (Audi A4 with 23,000km on the clock) that came across in a removalist truck with our furniture.

    Got the car out today and it seems we have a wheel bearing on the way out. Have spoken to a local dealer rep who says that this is common with vehicles transported long distances by road as the bearing rollers bounce up and down on the same spot on the bearing race, causing damage. Our removalist, who has transported over 100 cars around the country, says this is bollocks.

    Has anyone come across this before?
    It is going to be an interesting argument with Audi as to the warranty coverage etc......

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    PS By the way we drove over in our D2a. Great trip and of course it did not miss a beat.
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  2. 5th October 2010, 05:36 PM #2
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    Yes, I've come across this before with new cars. It seems to happen more to some cars than others. We replaced quite a few bearings on Peugeots in the mid 1990s for this reason.
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    Yeah its definetely possible I am afraid, although the time/distances involved here would certainly seem unlucky.

    Ive seen it a couple of times on wheel bearings on cars that have been standing for a long time.

    The lower swivel bearings on Rovers suffer a similar issue as the load is always applied in the same area.
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    Given the low Kms I wouldn't expect a problem either.

    Put it this way...
    Built, transported by road, loaded into a ship, transported to a holding yard in Aus..
    Moved again by truck to the dealer(1 only if it's not transfered),and then you buy it..
    Do 23,000Km and the bearings can't handle a cross country lift...Come on

    An older car with loose bearings,maybe but not at 23,000.
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  5. 5th October 2010, 07:09 PM #5
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    It's supposedly related to how the car is tied down.
    That's how Peugeot Australia (Inchcape at the time) got TNT (at the time) to pay for the repairs.

    IIRC, if the cars are secured by the wheels/tyres, the bounce of the body in one bearing spot does the damage - and it's over several 1000km, not local.
    On the boat, the bodies are secured via the tie down points rather than the wheels/tyres.
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    i don't believe it.
    maybe on heavy earthmoving equipment,
    but not on a light weight audi a4.
    i agree with the transport company.
    bollocks.

    how long a drive did you take the car on to come to this theory?
    and
    how long was the car idle in transit?

    alien d2 got it,
    audi didn't put new wheel bearings in it after shipment to aus.

    take it for a good long drive.
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    I have heard of semi trailer wheel bearings failing after being shifted by rail. It is the constant knocking over rail joints.

    I wouldn't imagine a car being road transported would suffer the same issue. At 23 000km I would havwe thought it would still be under warranty so it shouldn't be an issue for you.
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    It appears that it is rail related:
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    Yep, happens often enough and has happened to me from road transport. (and happens all the time with sea freighted cars)

    My 130 came from the Alice and was transported by road via Adelaide and Melbourne to here.
    When it got here every wheel bearing was brinnelled from sitting in the one spot for 5000km or whatever the distance is and had to be replaced.

    Pinion bearings in diffs are known to do this too when driven for long periods on corrugated roads when the free wheeling hubs are left unlocked.
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    Thanks all.

    Harry,
    The car has a growling noise like when I have had wheel bearings fail in the past. It is definately not something that could be ingored. The dealers rep said drive it for a couple of days but I don't want a bearing to collapse and be dealing with a stuffed hub as well. It was immobile for about three weeks, one on the truck and a fortnight here in WA waiting for us to catch up.

    Scouse,
    The dealers rep inferred that the damage was usually caused from when the car was heavily tied down, increasing the weight on the bearings. The removalist said that the car was not tied down but lightly secured with furniture straps and constrained from moving by furniture/matresses etc. This seems to correlate with your comment with the Pugs.

    Yes the car is still under warranty. Will start discussions with them tomorrow. My argument will be that there is nothing in the manuals that discusses transportation requirements and that the car has been used within expectations.

    Cheers,
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