Hi,
I was cleaning my car this weekend (first time since before Xmas as I haven’t seen the point to doing it with all the salt and grit on the roads) when I came to clean the alloys.
At this point I noticed something that has got me seriously worried! Whilst the alloys and discs look fine, the wheel hub (if that’s the right terminology) seems to be almost completely corroded!
A little more investigation shows the rear passenger side wheel hub to be seriously corroded with holes in some places! The rear driver’s side looks to be on the turn but no where near as bad as the other.
The front wheel hubs look to be fine.
The car went in for its MOT in December and had both the rear pads and discs replaced due to wear.
The garage at the time said nothing about there being a problem with the rear wheel hubs. There’s no way they can have failed to notice this whilst fitting new discs!
What I want to know is, how dangerous is this? I’m getting extremely worried about the prospect of my wheel coming off whilst I’m driving down the motorway or something. The car is a 55 plate ref sport. There’s no way the wheel hubs should look like this after 4 years and 68,000 miles!
Has anyone experienced this before? Can anyone tell me which part it is that needs replacing and how much it might be likely to cost?
Pictures are linked below so that you can see exactly what im talking about. Any advice would be gratefully received!
Thanks,
Mike
I was cleaning my car this weekend (first time since before Xmas as I haven’t seen the point to doing it with all the salt and grit on the roads) when I came to clean the alloys.
At this point I noticed something that has got me seriously worried! Whilst the alloys and discs look fine, the wheel hub (if that’s the right terminology) seems to be almost completely corroded!
A little more investigation shows the rear passenger side wheel hub to be seriously corroded with holes in some places! The rear driver’s side looks to be on the turn but no where near as bad as the other.
The front wheel hubs look to be fine.
The car went in for its MOT in December and had both the rear pads and discs replaced due to wear.
The garage at the time said nothing about there being a problem with the rear wheel hubs. There’s no way they can have failed to notice this whilst fitting new discs!
What I want to know is, how dangerous is this? I’m getting extremely worried about the prospect of my wheel coming off whilst I’m driving down the motorway or something. The car is a 55 plate ref sport. There’s no way the wheel hubs should look like this after 4 years and 68,000 miles!
Has anyone experienced this before? Can anyone tell me which part it is that needs replacing and how much it might be likely to cost?
Pictures are linked below so that you can see exactly what im talking about. Any advice would be gratefully received!
Thanks,
Mike