Hey guys, I have had my car since February of 2012 and since then I have had to change 3 wheel bearings. The driver side and axle right when I bought it, the in March of 2013 I had to change the passenger wheel bearing, now I need another passenger wheel bearing! Is there something that is killing these things?
I'm on hotkiss springs with the springmount cut mod.

 

It should be mandatory to post how many miles are on your car for questions like this. Also, are you using wheels with extreme offset?

 

I'm at 109,000 also on 20'' rims with 20 in front and 25 in the back.

 

20" rims are putting more stress on everything in your suspension. On your car it's manifesting as the wheel bearings. Get rid of the wheels and I bet your problems will go away.

 

I concur, and with the high mileage, the extra stress is most likely the cause of the hub failures.

 

That much stress to have a brand new wheel bearing blow out in 3 months?

 

Post pics of the car with the 20s.

 

 

133k miles and stock wheel bearings

 

No, simply having 20" wheels is not going to destroy bearings like that in such a short amount of time, if they were -100 offset than maybe.

 

Is it just bad luck then?

 

Those wheels don't look aggressive enough to put excessive stress on the bearings like the hellaflush crowd.

 

How are you installing them? Could have been a faulty bearing (very low likelihood) or you hammered them in.

 

If you still havn't got your alignment issue resolved then I'm betting thats it. You are running 10x the total toe according to factory specs. Get it fixed if you havnt or as you can see, youll be replacing many things.

Referring to this thread for anyone who is wondering how jacked his alignment specs are.
https://my350z.com/forum/maintenance...-question.html

 

or youre not tq'ing the hub nut down properly.

 

I got my alignment fixed by using more camber since the Toe bolt was frozen on there. I am bringing it back to the place that installed the wheel bearing in march since it has a 1 year warranty.

 

Well if you are using large amounts of camber to make up for your crappy toe, then theres another reason theyre probably dying. Take your car somewhere else seriously.

 

Anyone think it could be a combo between 20 in rims,a bad alignment, worn out bushings!, bad suspension geometry from being lowered too much?

 

What bearings are you buying? I would think you would be fine with your SUV wheels. I have 155k on my fronts, but have replaced both rears.

 

Sarcasm? It's most likely a combination of everything.