few days ago I starting having a really light "whistle" in the rear when the car was cold... fearing was a bearing I planned a service to the car before going for a road trip.. well was a bearing. today, suddenly, coming back from the grocery store... GROAN GROAN GROAN.. I have a face like.. WTF! I was only few hundreds of feet from the garage.. so I get there.. I grab the jack, and I see the rear left wheel has a "weird" camber... not enough.. as I start to lift the car the wheel just come loose. completely loose.. kept together only by the caliper.
well tomorrow I'll have the car towed to the stealership and I hope they don't rape me too much (my car is modified suspension and diff, so I don't think the warranty will kick in)
the lucky part... that happened in front of my place at 15mph if not less and not on a 600 miles road trip at 80mph.

never happen on ANY of my previous car to lose a bearing so quick...
never happen without the "steel grinding" noise and, more important... NEVER the wheel did come loose.

 

Glad to hear you made it home safe.

 

let's put that in this way. it's a STUPID failure... really dangerous. but happened in one of the luckiest condition EVER. what **** me off.. I changed tires saturday morning.. and from then to the failure I did 5 miles.. TOTAL.
I want to go and kick somebody's a$$... or the monkey at discount tires because it's not possible the bearing was completely firm.. or, even worst.. if the wheel was completely firm w/o any play... to some idiot in nissan that put a bearing that can have this kind of catastrophic failure w/o any advice.

 

wow... glad to hear nothing serious happened... is that a common problem with the nismos?

 

I don't know... the lead tech at the dealership hasn't seen a bearing so bad in a while (so he said) and shipped it to nissan.
they did the replacement under warranty even if my drivetrain is modified (cusco lsd)
and suspension modified.

 

Glad to hear everything worked out alright.
Stay away from DISCOUNT TIRE...

 

glad u made it home safe.