New app to Identify counterfeit wheel bearings

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The legit Timkins were about $200 each. If you got a "deal", the price says it all.

 

My Toyota originals are at 300 plus thousand miles and they're not making a darn bit of noise I have some very nice looking maid fakes if you want to call them that they look very well made almost like these two pictures of the timkins above almost identical there are a few marks on the face I have to take a picture they are definitely Chinese made the advertisement says so they are extremely smooth and the bearing and the press fit and everything looks exactly like the Toyota factory and the timken I have some Yaris wheel bearings here from the factory and these things are supposed to take sitting right next to the yard is bearings look every bit as well made I have these sitting under the carport on a table so they must be coded with something because they haven't started to surface rust or anything in this high humidity or this past winter The Chinese manufacturer of the bearings that I bought relatively inexpensively says they're coated and the coating seems to be working. If I ever get these to fail and get to install them we'll see how it goes. I'm also waiting for my persona 2013 for this original bearings to fail We thought we had some noise a while ago turned out it wasn't the wheel bearings so we are anxiously waiting even the $700 2008 with $180,000 mi on it bearing seem to be flawless and the people who own this car or getting ripped off by the Toyota dealer every time they visited have piles of receipt for they tried to burn these people new ones every time they went It is really horrible reading.

 

Last year. Only one failed but I changed both rears. $140 is too cheap.

 

Oh I've got real cheapies on a couple rears the rears are non-mission critical at all in my opinion anyway now I mean you know these things can be knocked out 25 minutes aside so you know I can change him once a week if need be not that I would want to but I'd get real good at it I'm sure doesn't take I'm in the southeast so I don't have all this road salting nonsense. But the last ones I bought for the Yaris oh my god they were $24 27 under 35 and haven't had a peep out of them and that car gets the crap beat out of it I'm telling you people drive that car at 90 miles an hour jumping in and out of traffic acting stupid children women You must be kidding looks like it's been in three wars takes a licking and keeps on ticking It took forever to wear out the factories 360,000 miles being driven by the same people I've been in the car maybe twice. But oh well you win some and you lose some I guess.

 

These are the current rear hubs for my Prius

 

Yes sir those are the ones

 

Rockauto cuts out middleman, orders direct from Timken and Timken ships the product with Rockauto labels. Its called drop shipping. I'm more inclined to order from Rockauto. Timken Rockauto price $146.

2008 TOYOTA PRIUS 1.5L L4 ELECTRIC/GAS Wheel Bearing & Hub | RockAuto

I don't buy parts 3rd party on Amazon, only if it is sold and shipped by Amazon.

 

My bearing at Rockauto which is about what I paid.

 

Really so all this worriation is for exactly what never having to do this ever again in your life a 45-minute job or you're in the rust belt where it's going to take 4 days to beat the bearings out of their holders? I couldn't get my mind get the best of me over this before this was even a thing fake bearings and all this few years ago I had to replace a set on my Yaris and another Corolla at the time internet auto parts and things like that were you know maybe 10 12 years in I can't even remember the year one of the first years of the Yaris and I ordered cheap inexpensive bearings before all the hubbub got really started and everybody started living their life online and reviewing everything in the world those cheap bearings that I bought way back then are still on that yards today and working just fine and they were no brand that anybody would be proud to say they heard of I can't even remember I have some same bearings ready to go in my generation 3 made by the same company which I think today is out of business I'll try to take a picture of the etching on the face where the wheel studs stick through there's a name and there's a big black letters c h i n a and some reference numbers to cross reference to other bearing manufacturers I imagine like timken and the big makers but these bearings never gave us any trouble I did the rears on the yards and I used the same brand fronts on a generation 2 which was not mine but a customer's car. And those bearings are still on the car today like 14 years later working just fine. So if they're bad enough the bearings that I'm driving on and I have cheap ones laying here it's nothing to throw them on to stop the racket that I'm listening to right now if that comes back in 40,000 mi oh boy I mean you know it's not anything that's going to make me lose any sleep at night that's for sure It's not like changing an engine transmission or anything like that which we've done a few of those.

 

A derivative of Penny Wise and Pound Foolish

If I had to change my hub every 40k I would have changed them seven or more times so far. As is, with the original Timkens/oem only one has failed in 285,000 miles. Even that one was just loud at 250k. Given its holding the wheel on with a few roller bearings, I go for quality when the howl says its time.

 

Good luck in your quest. Looks like your only avenue is direct from Timken to alleviate your paranoia.

Rockauto price on TIMKEN HA590064 front bearings is $109.79USD, rears TIMKEN HA590040 $120.79USD

 

If its not broke don't fix it. I guess we should have asked why you were replacing them. By the way, is that a recent photo of yourself?