wheel bearings

[poppsy]

I have just had my three year old sterling eccles serviced & it had to have wheel bearings fitted to the o/s & n/s
has anyone else had the wheel bearing done so soon
the warranty ran out at the end of January s l can not claim for the wheel bearings

 

[Damian]

It is not particularly unusual to have to replace wheel bearings as they are subjected to a lot of abuse from road surfaces.

As with all mass manufactured items, sometimes the quality or longevity is not as may be expected.

 

[JTQ]

It is certainly true caravan wheel bearing fail frequently, but failure of similar bearings in other applications is very rare. Some of those other applications see far greater usage than the few thousand miles seen by caravans.
What happens with caravan bearings unlike almost every other application, is that they are disturbed at the annual service.
I don’t think you need to look any further to understand why caravan bearings fail so regularly compared to wheel bearings in cars, lorries, aircraft, and rolling element bearings in automotive gearboxes, aero gas turbines etc,

The list of where failure is rare goes on endlessly, but then they are not disturbed every year.
Some caravan owners have known both bearings fail, big message there. Possibly the same fitter serviced both wheels a year or two years earlier?