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Hello Scotty. I purchased a new Toyota Camry V6 XLE in Oct 2006. Our dealer got this car for us from a another dealer 100 miles away. The reason I mention the 100 mile transfer between dealerships is due to need of realignment and wheel bearing wear on this car. This car has always run smooth and tracked straight after our dealer did a realignment after purchase. All four tires always seem to wear evenly as they age. The mystery is why did this car need a new left front wheel bearing at 84,000 miles and another wheel bearing on the right rear at 120,000 miles. The car now has 150,000 miles on it. I was told the other day by a tire dealer who was installing 4 new tires on this car that one of the wheels was bent and then he proceeded to try and sell me a set of new wheels. I said I would think about the wheels and get back to him. The car still runs perfectly smooth up to 70 mph but I wonder if perhaps there may be a bent wheel causing the wheel bearings to wear out prematurely. Wouldn't I feel a shimmy or vibration if one of wheels was bent that much to cause wheel bearings to wear out? Thank you in advance for your opinion on this.

 


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The mystery is why did this car need a new left front wheel bearing at 84,000 miles and another wheel bearing on the right rear at 120,000 miles.

It's not that unusual

I was told the other day by a tire dealer who was installing 4 new tires on this car that one of the wheels was bent and then he proceeded to try and sell me a set of new wheels.

it's not like tire dealers have x-ray vision or something. Ask him to show you the bend.


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I smell an up sell here..


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