Purchased an XC90 :) Wheel bearing issue?
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Totally gratuitous post for me - just purchased a 2010 XC90 D5 (197) Premium. It's bloody lovely as a family wagon, although i do need to pick the brains of current owners.
I'm quite aware of the road noise! It's louder than I was expecting. I think it might have a dying fns wheel bearing, but also not sure how loud these cars are on the road. It's running on matching Pirelli PZeros which are all evenly worn at about 4mm.
Dealer is going to sort, but did mention it could be feathering on the tyres... I've done a visual check and they seem fine.
So are they loud at motorway speeds? It's significantly louder than my 2005 V70 was?
I'm quite aware of the road noise! It's louder than I was expecting. I think it might have a dying fns wheel bearing, but also not sure how loud these cars are on the road. It's running on matching Pirelli PZeros which are all evenly worn at about 4mm.
Dealer is going to sort, but did mention it could be feathering on the tyres... I've done a visual check and they seem fine.
So are they loud at motorway speeds? It's significantly louder than my 2005 V70 was?
When failing they start like a slow increase in road noise, but after not very long they do get very loud and you'd know something was amiss.
Not cheap to replace (the part itself is lumpy).
I think ours had done about 85k miles when a rear one went, and from reading at the time that 70k-90k failures are not uncommon.
We didn't leave it a massive amount of time before we ended up changing up to the new model.
Not cheap to replace (the part itself is lumpy).
I think ours had done about 85k miles when a rear one went, and from reading at the time that 70k-90k failures are not uncommon.
We didn't leave it a massive amount of time before we ended up changing up to the new model.
confused_buyer said:
Quite common failure. They're not that bad to do - they're the complete hub, not a bearing. Part is shared with older S60/V70 (and even the V70 before that).
This ^^^. Left rear one started grumbling on our 2010 D5 around 75k miles, bought the parts and changed it in less than 1 hour. I only have a Bob the Builder tool kit so it must be simple 
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