I own a Nissan navara that eats front wheel bearings, so much so that I carry a spare hub assembly, I went to Stirling to buy a bull yesterday morning towing a livestock trailer, heading back around the top of Glasgow the wheel bearing went, I pulled off the motorway and rang the AA to join and get them to fit the part. I explained to the operator the situation and then paid £150, 30 minutes later a patrolman turned up, he informed me the AA do not repair cars on the side of the road, mumbled health and safety and never even opened his door, I rang Scania in Bellshill and a fitter came out and between us changed the hub over and I was away.
Many other truck dealers would help you I am sure if you ran their individual product, but I would like to say, well done Scania.
puntabrava:
I went to Stirling to buy a bull yesterday morning .
I,m not quite sure why i laughed reading that 
So you was mis sold your AA membership?
Daf aid will come out to any make of truck as long as you have an account.
Sounds like you want to chop in the Nevaro.
chaversdad:
puntabrava:
I went to Stirling to buy a bull yesterday morning .I,m not quite sure why i laughed reading that
A bull for a cow
sounds like the navaro should go mate. 
puntabrava:
heading back around the top of Glasgow the wheel bearing went, I pulled off the motorway and rang the AA to join and get them to fit the part.
No roadside recovery firm will come out and fit a new wheel bearing at the side of the road, they recover you to a garage where the fitter can do the work in a workshop.
The clue is in the name, “roadside recovery” 
Harry Monk:
puntabrava:
heading back around the top of Glasgow the wheel bearing went, I pulled off the motorway and rang the AA to join and get them to fit the part.No roadside recovery firm will come out and fit a new wheel bearing at the side of the road, they recover you to a garage where the fitter can do the work in a workshop.
The clue is in the name, “roadside recovery”
When a firm advertises we repair most cars at the side of the road. I’d assume they repair most cars at the side if the road
I wouldn’t expect the generally car based mechanics as would be employed by AA to start stripping 4x4 hubs out at the side of the road, its hardly a roadside minor fix like a fanbelt, puncture or battery change, could easily be half a morning IF a suitable bearing or complete hub could be found.
Is this another weakness in Navara, front hubs falls apart just like the rear diff.
Yep I thought it was funny went to stirling for a bulb …AA ,RAC and the others won’t get involved in jobs like that .Where you missold AA membership ■■ difficult one ,but you where being naughty in just wanting to join because you needed help there and then .It surprised me as I thought they didn’t accept new members who already had an issue .Guess I was wrong…As silver surfer said DAFaid will attend ,f you have an account with a DAF dealer ,otherwise like any other dealer it can be called in as a breakdown to the dealer (not DAFaid ) and done as a cash sale etc …Imay have missed it in your post ,but it is illegal to work on the offside ,due to guess what■■? health and safety .It makes me laugh as we commercial dealers etc sometimes get a hard time ,but a car dealer won’t do half the stuff we do for customers…Most car manufacturers contract their breakdown to the AA ,RAC etc
If I ring somebody who offers a service and I fully describe what I want from them and their business and we reach an agreed cost and this cost is paid up front, as far as I am concerned we have entered into a verbal contract, and what the ■■■■ is written on the side of the works vehicle matters not a jot to me.
I have changed wheel bearings on the road before (outer bearings) 15 minutes and thats on a 4x4 with manual and auto locking wheel hubs.
AA should be ashamed, they could have towed you to a safer place.
If your eating bearings check the grease in them is sufficient and the rear seal is in tact as water ingress will be the main cause, this looks obvious when you see the old grease. Also check they are tightened up correctly and rechecked after a couple of hundred miles
chaversdad:
puntabrava:
I went to Stirling to buy a bull yesterday morning .I,m not quite sure why i laughed reading that
Here you are, have a laugh at this one I sold a while ago
Drift:
I have changed wheel bearings on the road before (outer bearings) 15 minutes and thats on a 4x4 with manual and auto locking wheel hubs.
AA should be ashamed, they could have towed you to a safer place.
Thats good going takes me about an hour all in to replace a full bearing on a standard undriven front wheel if all goes well, how do you drive the races out without removing the hub.
puntabrava:
chaversdad:
puntabrava:
I went to Stirling to buy a bull yesterday morning .I,m not quite sure why i laughed reading that
Here you are, have a laugh at this one I sold a while ago
Good price for that animal really well donr
Juddian:
Drift:
I have changed wheel bearings on the road before (outer bearings) 15 minutes and thats on a 4x4 with manual and auto locking wheel hubs.
AA should be ashamed, they could have towed you to a safer place.
Thats good going takes me about an hour all in to replace a full bearing on a standard undriven front wheel if all goes well, how do you drive the races out without removing the hub.
That just the outer bearing and the race usually just slips out, the inner races can be more of a ■■■■■ to get out though. Inner bearings are doable on the roadside (safe place) but more time consuming and messy.
If your in an emergency you could leave the races in just to get you home.
I killed this bearing on the way home from an off road weekend a little while ago, this was an inner and outer replaced by the road side I wasnt in the AA at the time 
Not much left of it
Drift:
Juddian:
Drift:
I have changed wheel bearings on the road before (outer bearings) 15 minutes and thats on a 4x4 with manual and auto locking wheel hubs.
AA should be ashamed, they could have towed you to a safer place.
Thats good going takes me about an hour all in to replace a full bearing on a standard undriven front wheel if all goes well, how do you drive the races out without removing the hub.
That just the outer bearing and the race usually just slips out, the inner races can be more of a ■■■■■ to get out though. Inner bearings are doable on the roadside (safe place) but more time consuming and messy.
If your in an emergency you could leave the races in just to get you home.I killed this bearing on the way home from an off road weekend a little while ago, this was an inner and outer replaced by the road side I wasnt in the AA at the time
Not much left of it
I wouldn’t have done the job there, that dog needs a vet… 
The only 4x4’s i’ve owned which have stood up to anything and everything have been Toyota (hmm thinking about it we’ll be going back to Toyota asap, the current Mitsi is just not in the same league), only hub maintenance needed has been regular grease ups, never needed a bearing of any description, oh and to pump some Moly grease into the front swivels every now and again.
Harry Monk:
puntabrava:
heading back around the top of Glasgow the wheel bearing went, I pulled off the motorway and rang the AA to join and get them to fit the part.No roadside recovery firm will come out and fit a new wheel bearing at the side of the road, they recover you to a garage where the fitter can do the work in a workshop.
The clue is in the name, “roadside recovery”
If the RAC can fix the car they will drag it to a place of safety and do the work. Only if they cant fix the car will they take the car to a third party garage to get the work done.
would you not think that it might have been prudent to have been a member before waiting for the bearing to collapse seeing as you know its an accident waiting to happen?..typical farmer palmer logic.i.e your all so miserable that you only know how to breath in and wont spend a penny thats not vital?..ive been in the rac for 25 years,have had several breakdowns,never had any problems,either they fix it,or your on a slideback home.i wrecked an enging near south mimms once,and was piggybacked straight home to glasgow.no messing for 400 miles.ive never been messed about with as ive always just paid up front before i broke down.do you wait till your tyres giving some traffic cop 20 lashes before you change it,or before it blows out? itl be a fact that its assumed your a member for a few days before you try to get a 500 repair/recovery job out of them.same for european cover,it dosent work if you wait till you break down then try to abuse their service preventative maintenance might be 2 relative words here.
dieseldog999:
would you not think that it might have been prudent to have been a member before waiting for the bearing to collapse seeing as you know its an accident waiting to happen?..typical farmer palmer logic.i.e your all so miserable that you only know how to breath in and wont spend a penny thats not vital?..ive been in the rac for 25 years,have had several breakdowns,never had any problems,either they fix it,or your on a slideback home.i wrecked an enging near south mimms once,and was piggybacked straight home to glasgow.no messing for 400 miles.ive never been messed about with as ive always just paid up front before i broke down.do you wait till your tyres giving some traffic cop 20 lashes before you change it,or before it blows out? itl be a fact that its assumed your a member for a few days before you try to get a 500 repair/recovery job out of them.same for european cover,it dosent work if you wait till you break down then try to abuse their service preventative maintenance might be 2 relative words here.
Hey pal, ive spent more money on machines and parts than five generations of your family will ever earn but still have no money as its in the dealers hands
You must be a ■■■■■■■ mind reader if you know when something is going to go wrong, have you ever had your own tv program?
obviously you dont need to be a mind reader when you take out a spare wheel bearing with you when the original ones going to fall off and you do the trip anyway. and if your so affluent to be blowing your own chuff,then you might think that youd run a pickup in decent working order. champagne drinker with a lemonade pocket springs to mind.run it till it breaks,spend nothing,moan about being rich and skint at the same time.(asda pay us so little for the milk that we run at a loss to sell it to them,and all the other bollox) number of farmers who got grants and subsidies when the mad cow disease was on ?plenty,number of specialised animal truckie firms who got compensated for going down the tubes due to the same thing?? none.for once again myopic farmer palmer logic,( theyve cut my free money grants again,boohoo,no wonder the aa bounced you for not joining till you actually broke down.and although im not a mind reader on the telly,then my grandad used to be a ventroloquist on the radio…whats breaking down in a pickup got to do with this forum anyway?..ooo arrr git orf moi land…i think thats how the farmers say it?..heres the thing for farmers…who was it that first discovered that you got milk from a cow…and what were they doing to it,when it dawned on them it was milk?..