If any of my brother or sister 1995 Hyundai Accent owners can share their experience with this issue, I'd be grateful. My car supposedly needs new hub bearings, and I've been told to get a wheel alignment done after that. It will probably also need new rear brakes. How long have your bearings been lasting you? How long have your rear wheel drum brakes been lasting? I went the entire first five years of having that car without any bearing or back brake issues. Since then, I've run into a series of evil or else bad mechanics and I think only one good one who put new back brakes on properly. The bad experience was a garage that did great work at first but then had to replace the brakes three times because they kept going in a matter of months. So I'm on my fourth set of back brakes in the past 4 1/2 years (yes, that mechanic had to honor the warranty). The bearings were replaced 1 1/2 years ago and also probably a year or two before that. I've lost track of whether that was front, back, both or what. I'm really not up for getting a new car, not just yet, and I'm trying to decide whether fixing this one will last me another 4 months. It's probably going to be about 3-400 for the bearings, but I'm sure Midas will find more. Of course, they say the car is worth fixing. Imagine that.
03-19-2005, 05:16 PM
