The 2014 Impala has an Integrated wheel assembly. The rear brakes were replaced and the rotor removed and resurfaced. Within a week the right rear wheel started humming while driving. The diagnosis was a failed bearing. I'm stating the bearing failed due to the removal of the rotor from the bearing assemble. I am reading that when the rotor is removed from an integrated hub assembly that these assemblies have very tight tolerances and there is a good chance that the bearing will fail when the rotor is reinstalled. Translation is now I am now having to pay for a bearing replacement due to having a brake job done. GM has no data on how successful that a rotor can be reinstalled to tight tolerances and positioning so as not to cause the bearing failure.
The 2014 Impala has an Integrated wheel assembly. The rear brakes were replaced and the rotor removed and resurfaced. Within a week the right rear wheel started humming while driving. The diagnosis was a failed bearing. I'm stating the bearing failed due to the removal of the rotor from the bearing assemble. I am reading that when the rotor is removed from an integrated hub assembly that these assemblies have very tight tolerances and there is a good chance that the bearing will fail when the rotor is reinstalled. Translation is now I am now having to pay for a bearing replacement due to having a brake job done. GM has no data on how successful that a rotor can be reinstalled to tight tolerances and positioning so as not to cause the bearing failure.
- tlrace, Mundelein, US