I've just had a quote for changing both rear wheel bearings on the Octavia and nearly fallen off my chair!

Would you say

Yup.

I dunno what the rear bearing units are like compared to the fronts? I know I paid circa

I find it funny wheel-bearings die quick on Skoda cars. They should be able to last years. Guess that's another reliability issue.

I know the main dealer price for one FRONT is £110.79

EDIT: Dealer price for the rears is £191.98 each :( So it looks like the price of £249.10 for both seems reasonable

The bearings themselves are quite dear. SKF do them and thats what I fitted to our Octy vRS. Really easy to do though tbh mate, if you can get the bearings for the right money.

I find it funny wheel-bearings die quick on Skoda cars. They should be able to last years. Guess that's another reliability issue.

What maybe 4+ years and 90,000+ miles like Goochies?

If you know the number on the bearing i would be glad to get you a price as we change bearings every day so we get excellent discount problem with a lot of these garages they pay

I'm sure I paid about £45 for a front off side bearing. Fitting is fairly involved, I think for the front (about 1 hr).

I priced these up yesterday and the rear wheel bearings are £79.00 each + VAT

I did look in to this for you at the same time.

Sorry :(

Sarah

Took the car in to a local independant recommended by a work colleague - An hour and a half later its done

Just hoping they havent "done a kwik-fit" on my sills.... time will tell

Took the car in to a local independant recommended by a work colleague - An hour and a half later its done

So what was the damage with them, then?

Chris

Did you have Skoda parts fitted or from another source, eg QH?

I priced these up yesterday and the rear wheel bearings are

Nice to know its an easy enough job to get done at an independents. I wish all this talk of repairs wouldn't go on - I think I can hear a rumbling from the back of mine now which is very different to normal road noise. Shall be monitoring this as the rear bearings have done over 70k in total.

What parts did you use? (as already asked)

Skf.

i have a 1.6 fsi from 2006 with 59000 mile and i don,t think that this is normal ......they must last longer then that ...i did only motorway miles and i don.t now what couse this .....and is a horeble noise!!!!!!!!!!!i whent to skoda dealer and they ask for 360 £ but i check with bosh and they ask for 260£ !