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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I beg to disagree. I worked with Liqua Lube for several years, and can tell you that new bearings DO fail, even when in an oil bath and properly installed. It doesn't happen often, but it DOES happen. A bad bearing race or housing is just as possible as a bad ANYTHING, or for that matter, a bad spindle or seal. So is damage to the seal from a road hazzard, etc.
There isn't a Marine dealer out there that would stand behind the repair they did once someone else repacks them, that's for sure. This situation is a bad deal, but could have been caused by too many other factors to blame the dealer and start a 'boycott'. I agree that 1000 miles isn't much on a set of bearings, in fact I put way more than that on mine between work.
I have had situations like you posted twice over the years, as i trailer about 15K per year some years, and both times a trailer builder did the work on the hubs.
I understand being upset at the cost and the longevity of the work, but just too many variables exist to be too awful hard on the dealer. |
