Hi Guys

Hopefully someone can help me out

I have a 57 reg octavia vrs. At about 60mph i get a shake (like a slight wobble as if wheel balancing was off) coming from the rear. It is known to emit a droning sort of noise as well. I suspect the wheel bearing is on its way out.

I bought the car through a finance company and took out a warrenty with it. so my questions are as follow

Would a wheel bearing normaly be covered under a warrenty?

What is the average life expectancy of a wheel bearing?

Are wheel bearing classed as ware and tear parts?

Is there any known issue with the octavia and wheel bearing?

I'd appreciate a quick reply as im wanting to book it in as soon as possible

Cheers in advance

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I'd check the rear tyres for saw toothing first.

Bearings may be covered, may be considered wear and tear items though so have a look through your documentation.

I have looked in the documentation ive recieved. It has a list of excluded parts and wheel bearings are not listes. it is however very vague. for example the term "and general wear and tear parts" this could mean anything i guess lol

when you say check the tyre for saw toothing can you describe ehat that looks like (sorry im not whizz with cars lol).

Cheers

Moved to Octy2

HTH

Saw toothing

Check the inside edge of the rear tyres, check they aren't worn out or that the blocks of tread are wearing at different heights, very common.

Saw toothing

Check the inside edge of the rear tyres, check they aren't worn out or that the blocks of tread are wearing at different heights, very common.

It appears to be even wear on both rears but i think there only just starting to were out as the noise only started recently. Im really struggling with the garage and my warenty company and none of them know if the wheel bearign is covered

How can that be!

When I had my octavia mk1 the bearings kept going every 40k im not sure if mk2 has this issue tho.