[svxistentialist]

Originally Posted by SVX_MY_BABY

Joe:
The Subaru master tech I use tells me two things.

1. It's the seals which usually go first which allows contamination to damage the bearings.

2. Subaru now uses the same rear bearing for the SVX that they use in the WRX. It is also now packed with the correct grease from the factory.

That sure makes sense.

One thing occurs to me is we don't actually take care of them like we should. Most other cars you could buy, the bearings have "headroom" in the engineering, they won't fail. The last car I had that did wheel bearings was in the early 80's. We now expect them not to fail, that is what we are accustomed to.

If you check the service intervals for the SVX, we are supposed to check and repack these bearings, and I'm guessing that most people/many dealers do not do this. If we did, maybe the seal giving problems would not happen, we would see damage and replace.

Joe