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      06-12-2014, 11:17 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by jphughan View Post
According to RealOEM, the hub and bearing are sold as an assembled unit and aren't available separately. Not sure why BMW does it that way, but that explains why the dealers do it that way. I think I remember something about bearings being easy to mess up during installation, i.e. if you don't do something just right, you just ruined your new bearing, whereas selling as an assembled unit removes the potential for that problem.
sadly that's also the front wheel bearings
it must be hella rare for the rear wheel bearings to go bad on the e9x or something.
the rear wheel bearings are sold as the bearing and hub separately only, there is no assembled kit
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