Hi,

So for the past almost 12 months my 05 g35 has been making a motor boat/loud fan noise whenever I went over 15mph so i went to check it out and the mechanic said all the wheel bearings are in a really bad condition and it would cost me $2,800 to fix it (I visited one of the cheapest place near by my place, also a 4.5 star on yelp..) and as of right now I can't afford to pay because of other personal expenses.

any advices? Sell it for parts buy a new car or just fix it up?
How long would my car last?

Thanks

 

Buy the parts and do it Your self. You dont need a press' for the fronts not sure about the rears .

A year is a long time to push something like that aside. But here's a vid to help

 

The guy is planning to a$$rape you. I very highly doubt that you need to replace all of your wheel bearings at once. Maybe one is bad, possibly two. Even if you had to replace all 4, the cost of parts wouldn't be more than $500. Is he really going to charge you $2000 for labor to replace something where the whole thing is an assembly and you don't even need to use a bearing puller?

Find a different mechanic.

 

i just bought all 4 corners... total was 250

fronts come with hubs but rears you do need to get a shop to press the old bearings off the hub and press the new ones in

 

Fronts are very easy to do. 4 bolts and the assembly comes out and you just replace. You should be able to tackle this yourself.

Rears need the use of a press.

I agree with the bearings being terrible as I've had 3 front bearings fail on my AWD G35 in 150K miles

 

You have received excellent advice from the other members, DIY. The front is remove and replace, easy as that. The back a little more complicated, but still doable. I did my rear bearings for under $250 including bearing costs and machinist labor cost to remove and replace the bearings. I bought my rear bearings at rockauto.com and had them replaced by a local machinist. Rockauto.com also carries the front bearing assemblies. If you have some mechanical skills and access to a service manual, you can do it.

I agree with what has been said already, I doubt all four went bad at once. Identify the problem to the front or rear and then replace them as a pair. The truth though is that you can replace only one bearing at time.

Good luck

 

The fronts are cake. What I would do is remove the rears and bring them along with the new rears and just have a shop press the old bearings out then press the new bearings in. Then go home and put them back in the car.

 

I have the same problem . looking into replacing front passenger side in a g35 , where is the place to order the hub from ? any advice would be great thx

 

If the shop wants more than $130 for the job, go by a press from Harbor Freight they are on sale now for $120.00

 

I agree with what has been said on previous posts. Identify the issue/location, shop Rockauto.com for the wheel hub assembly and bearings, DIY or you need a new mechanic bro. Good luck!

 

thx guys , just ordered from Rockauto.com . $125 with 1-2 fedex shipping

 

please post up the results and any difficulties you had along the way.

 

will do i should be working on in Friday or Saturday .

 

Hello everyone, so i did change my right front wheel bearing . My only advice to everyone is to double check and make sure you put the dust shield the right way or you will be doing it over like me !! I havent had any problems besides that since i used air tools . After i had the bolts out i used a puncher and hammer to hit each bolt till the hub came out . Took me about 10 min to get the hub out, just go around and punch all of them little by little. For me it was a really easy job just wasted extra time because i didnt pay enough attention . My car has 80k its a 05 and the car been in Nj all its life .. hope this helps!!

 

Definitely a gear head...