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12-07-2014, 01:55 PM
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Check those front wheel bearings
Coming home Thurdsday night from the airport, turned down my street toward my house, 150 ft from my driveway, all of a sudden felt like I was driving on gravel. Pulled to the side to check, nothing looked wrong from the outside. Limped into the garage. Noise coming from the LF wheel. I could feel the heat coming off the wheel when I looked at it. Ugh wheel bearing time.
Friday morning lifted up the car and pulled the tire, rotor, and hub. Sure enough the outer bearing had self destructed. The inner race of the outer bearing fused to the spindle. And the melted remains of the bearing (and a dead spider) in the second picture. Just thankful it happened 150 ft from my garage, not on the expressway. This was on my W210 but the 124 has a very similar bearing arrangement. Failed without warning.
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The OM 642/722.9 powered family Still going strong 2014 ML350 Bluetec (wife's DD) 2013 E350 Bluetec (my DD) both my kids cars went to junkyard in 2023 2008 ML320 CDI (Older son’s DD) fatal transmission failure, water soaked/fried rear SAM, numerous other issues, just too far gone to save (165k miles) 2008 E320 Bluetec (Younger son's DD) injector failed open and diluted oil with diesel, spun main bearings (240k miles) 1998 E300DT sold to TimFreeh 1987 300TD sold to vstech 
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