No. 1 reason "we" failed cars at Tech Inspection, Loose front wheel bearings......... Options

[Mueller]

While doing the "tech" inspection on Saturday for the WCC, Scott Yeaman and I noticed a few (okay, more than a few) 914's had loose front wheel bearings.

Of course an owner does not want to hear this and would always come up with a reply after telling them they'll have to tighten them before we signed them off:

"they cannot be loose, I just had my mechanic go over the car 100%"
or
"what do you expect for a 30 year old car??"
or
"come on, I've been driving it that way for ages, it's no big deal"
or
"I don't know how, besides I don't have the tools"


Well guess what? Tough...fix the damn thing before you forget and it gets worse!!!!!

Luckly for many, Scott had his trailer and a nice selection of tools to use. For those that did not know how to tighten up the bearings, we set them up with a fellow 914 owner that was doing the repair on thier own car.

I believe we had 6 or 7 cars that needed this done.