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Old 12-30-2012, 02:01 PM   #34 (permalink)
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The wheel bearing units will just get gradually worse until they reach a point where it is painfully obvious. Even if they started to come apart the disc brake rotor will not let everything come apart where you would lose control of your car. Long before that point they would really be raising H$%^&*, and the steering would be lousy.

In the old days of drum front brakes the whole hub assembly would come off leaving the driver with a 3 wheeled car. I saw a Rambler wagon loose the right front wheel once. Since it had dual brake circuits the driver still had two wheel brakes. She stopped fro a light and the car tipped over on the backing plate for the right front brake, which was all that was left as the wheel, tire, and drum were gone.

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