I think the wheel bearing is gone on one of the front wheels. Get this horrible whirring noise (have done now for past 15,000miles!) when driving straight or turning towards the right. Noise goes away as soon as you turn left, so it's quite amusing being able to play an on off humming noise by wiggling the steering left and right.

Anyways, I had new tyres fitted all round today and the noise is still there and just as loud, so out goes my theory that it was tyre related.

Does anyone have a rough cost of how much a new wheel bearing is and fitted?

I was quoted £115 by my local indy, did it myself and just got them to press the new bearing into the hub for crate of Stella

I had one done at Savilles Skoda for £55.00 + VAT + Labour. Hard to tell with the labour charge as they were doing more than just the one thing but the hourly rate is £74.95.

Cheapest on ebay tonight was £24. Get your local indy to press out the old and in the new or do it yourself if you have a big vice.

I once was daft enough to do a bearing using hand tools and a vice, never again. If you want to do it cheap strip the hub and take it to a garage to get it pressed out and the new one pressed in as suggested above, anything else is a false economy.

two garages have quoted me so far:

£210inc vat (VW specialist garage)

£175inc vat (local independant garage)

wtf?!

What's the parts price? They may be quoting a new hub with bearing already in it. I'm sure I've read that's all that tps supply rather than the bearing alone?

Yeh both garages are saying new hub

You could ask unit 18 for a quote .

I just had one done on wednesday £40 for hub from GSF on ebay and £30 labour from local indy, didnt fix the grumbling noise, I now thimk it may be my tyres Avons ?

wow that's very cheap indeed.

Could it be one of the other wheel bearings failed also?

not getting any change in noise whilst turning, rear tyres have about 1mm above wear indicator but all wheels have a lot of weights on them I give up I hate the noise

This thread jinxed me Car's only done 28k in 12 years (7k of that in the last 3 months) but my d/s bearing went. It's £35 for a bearing (non ABS in my case) and labour was free as I was owed a favour. Binzie why not swap front/rear wheels over and see if the noise moves. Failing that it could be the other bearing, as mentioned above if you turn left and it gets louder it'll be the right hand bearing and vice versa, if direction changes make no difference then it may not be.