Front wheel bearing repair Land Rover Discovery 3 

Love the channel, but could you turn the music volume down, couldn't hear the dodgey wheel bearing. Cheers

I love these videos for the dialogue as much as the mechanical work and I don’t even own a Land Rover. You two make a great team!

Each of your films is watched with a smile. You guys are very nice. And repair was not easy at all. Regards 😊

I watch your channel all the time to show me how to fix my discovery 3. You make it look easy. I spent over an hour hammering on my bearing to remove it (20 years of coronation and rust and 200k miles) Keep up the good work 👏

Christian, I always smile when you read the Haynes manual, it was written by my girlfriend's father....I'm a lucky man. Love your videos and you are a great couple.

British humor with a German accent makes for a very entertaining video! Thanks!

Hi Guys, love your videos, you two are such fun to watch. We have travelled all the way up through Africa in our Discovery 3 that is seriously set up for over landing and is very heavy because of it. We also towed a 1,500kg trailer behind us. In terms of wheel bearings on our car, the very best are Timkin bearing. We have over 50,000km on ours and they are still going strong. If I have to replace our in the future, I will use Timkin bearings again. And, oh yes, we have been through deserts, rivers and completed the notorious Van Zyls Pass in Namibia. Keep up the good work guys. It's such fun watching you adventures. Ivan

You guys are great to watch, always having fun. Also if I ever buy a Discovery & it develops a noisy front wheel bearing, I'm well prepared.

The church bells chiming out at noon, and letting both of you know what time it was, takes me back to my many trips to Germany. My mother lived in Wirsberg (kries Kulmbach) and she lived through the war as a preteen/teenager. I just recently lost her and have been hurting really bad. I came across your channel to fix one of our two Land Rover LR3s, and heard your accents and mannerisms when speaking English. Even though she lived in Canada for nearly 75 years, she never lost her accent. In addition to learning lots of valuable stuff from your channel, sometimes I will listen to just to hear you both speaking, because it reminds me of when she and her German friends would get together and speak in English. It also reminds me of the many trips I’ve made to Germany over the years. You two don’t know how many people you touch, or even in what way. I came looking for some car tips, and was left with happy tears rolling down my face. From here in Canada, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Great to watch you guys, i watch for the interaction between you two as much as for the content, i own a 2001 Defender 90 Td5, as i'm now 50yrs old i was thinking about replacing it with a D3 for more comfort which is how i found your channel, i was searching for videos of how hard/easy it is to repair a D3, i'm very hands on and can fix my Defender no problem but i have seen loads of horror stories about having to take the body off to do the simplest of engine repairs and didn't fancy that, but by watching your channel i have seen that most of the repairs can be done as long as your willing to take your time and use a little ingenuity. Thanks for your content and keep up the good work guys.

Love your videos. Just did the passenger side wheel bearing on my LR3. I noticed the sound yours was making it your other videos. Great videos. Thank you for putting them out.

I have had a grind from the drivers side front wheel for a while now. When I left up the car and shake the front wheel I don't feel play, but this video is helpful. To know that the bearing can be bad without a lot of play in the wheel. Thank you.

You guys are too cute....love your channel. Great content. I happen to drive a Disco 4 and really enjoy watching you doing repairs and maintenance on your 3.

You two are perfect and all right , thanks for the inspiration and information. Blessings.

Your video collection soon gonna be best repair-service manual for Discovery 3,looking foward to that.Thanks guys for your effort.

I am a big LR/RR Fan and have a few, and I love working on them. I totally agree with your comment regarding not buying one if you're not doing the work on them. I also have to laugh every time I see one of your videos; my wife pretends to fall asleep every time I talk about one of the cars or the latest project. Great videos. I watch your videos like a tv series!

I fitted Timkin on my Jeep.. so far so good

Hey C & V, I'm now looking forward to the castles, your landscape is quite beautiful .

Another very useful video which inspires us to do our own maintainance and grow in our confidence and enjoyment of owning a Discovery. Thank you both.

Has to be the first enjoyable disco wheel bearing replacement, I’m sure I will be smiling doing this today. Many thanks 🙏

Hi! I love your videos , this is my dream car...and I hope some day I can get one....and learn with you to fix ...God bless your family!

You’re lucky your wife is so cool. I tell my wife to leave me alone in the garage. “German Dude” 🤣✌🏻

Hi Vera and Christian, I loved this video. Your videos do have "instructional value." This one has certainly given me the confidence to tackle this task on our old D3, if the need arises. Also, please don't underestimate how entertaining your drive through the beautiful, winter countryside is at the conclusion of this video. Many people watch the televised Tour de France every evening (Australian time,) just to watch the superb French countryside flowing past them. Yes, OK, the cycling is good as well, particularly your German heroes Tony Martin, Buchmann et al. Well done. I enjoy your work so much!!

it is so amazing how Christian took out old bearing from it's seat place. It took me an hour and very BIG hammer to take it out )

I agree with Arek below every time I watch a new video I love the way you guys are so calm and loving to each other. Your videos are amazing. Here in the UK 🇬🇧 we really get tucked up with the cast of repairs on the LR please keep make your fantastic videos x

Excellent thank you both, I’ve just bought a 3 with a duff front bearing so sending this to my son 😄👍

Thanks for the Vid - Will need to do this in the future. I had a shop do one side-

You can just drive the Rhine road - you can see at least three castles all the tme - when one goes out of view, another one comes into view. I love driving that road every time I drive back to England, I join the east bank road near Wiesbaden and drive as far as I can before we have to leave to get the ferry in Calais - we normally get as far as Koblenz. But I do like castles further up, like Drakenfels (I went there on a school trip in the 1960s).

i love this channel and both of you, bring your castles, even as a brit I’ll like to see them. Actually, where you live looks stunning!

great channel guys my wife and i really like your land rover discovery 3 videos love the banter from you both and very informative too

Just found this channel and like the humour and the practical detailed information. Keep up this style it works well and gets the info across in a great way

Another great video and thanks for the previous advice on travelling in Germany with mods. Vera's Christmas decorations look good too. Hope you both have a great festive season.

Who would have thought changing a LR wheel bearing could be so entertaining - a testimony to your content and professionalism. Have you thought about performing a chassis corrosion treatment?

Love the videos guys. Great sender of humour and Vera has the best smile ever.

EGR for my LR2 £800 I should have done it myself, but no time to do love your channel from Yorkshire i

Still the best Landrover, love your video's...and really like you Guys working as a Team..yes I want to see the transmission out the Challenger.

You are even better than a Land Rover mechanic. Keep up the good videos.

you are a very nice couple... and you know how to solve the land rover's problems. greetings

Would love to see a video on how you jack the vehicle up safely

Nice experience you shared here, now I can replace this bearing in the middle of Siberia ;)

First Germans with a sense of humor ... Love it !!! 😁👍 Every time Vera says "shit", it just cracks me up 😂😂😂

Hi Christian &Vera once again a great video always handy to know how to change the wheel bearing on my Discovery 3 looking forward to seeing you doing the brake pipes. my last MOT all I needed to do was clean them up and grease them stop anymore corrosion stay safe 👍👍 Ralph Cooling

What a great channel! Thank you for your Discovery 3 help :)

I admire this guy for all his work,,However I will never buy a range rover ,I will stick with my Toyota Landcruiser and Izuzu until they break down ,but I will have to wait a long time here in Australia as a 20 year old car looks like a 1 year car in europe .Great video,s.

In Australia we have no castles.... only pubs. The closest thing here to a castle would be a ring of Toyato Hylux's with bogan campers in the middle.

Good video with nice presentation very happy watchable people - well done

Great!! as always....it must be the infectious smile V!

This video encouraged me to attempt my own front wheel bearing / hub repair, which was successful today. Do you plan on a video for the rear bearing at any point? I am guessing, whenever it might fail!

As ever, very cool video. I've done the same on mine. I used a Timken bearing, which I think may have been original equipment..not sure. I don't think they should last forever though. Disco's are heavy beasts, so give suspension bushes and bearings a hard time, just with normal driving. Agree, they are easy to work on, BUT I had to upgrade my jack and stands, plus torque wrench. Everything is heavier and a lot of the bolts are tighter than on normal cars. I'd be interested in the transmission work on the challenger! (I have an American V8 powered vehicle as well). Very interested in the brake lines, as my Disco is a similar vintage and will more than likely need those at some point. In the UK, we have the equivalent of the TUV every year! the latest job on mine was the steering wheel angle sensor which gives some very strange problems. Surprisingly easy to take the steering column out, fix and replace. German castles, yes, very different from UK castles.

It's suiting that your license plate spells "DIRT" :) Thanks for fun and informative videos! Have a Disco 3 myself.

you can film anything and we will like it :) a pity the challenger already has problems :(

i think i might have to do this soon. i just did new brakes, and rotors a few days ago....i have a strange noise coming from one side...not sure if i bent the rotor backsplash down onto the rotor of if i will need a hub bearing. we'll see. love you guys from NYC. thank you.

Hey guys, nice to see you. Here's a video request for you: Show how celebrating Christmas is different in Germany than in the USA. And I would like to see your castle, please.

Great work and love the sense of humour.

You tell him vera your the boss now you guys are making me laugh 😹

Thanks, very informative as usual. Just one request on your BGM, could you turn down the volume when you are making us listen to the whining noise on your left hub? I couldn’t make out what noise I should be looking out for.

great video again, and easy job. I watch know for more then 6 month your Disco 2 video. And your make me to decide to buy a disco 3. But the V8 and i drive it on LPG. Great car.

Love you guys, interesting and humourous videos. Keep the good work up.

Hello, several years ago I've red local story on one person tyred replacing hubs and had actually drilled hole trough hub to the bearing accembly for the accessing it for the lubrication renewal. He made threads and covered channel with brake fluid flush port from the brake support. It would be interesting if you can repeat this idea, test easiest tools available for this and give feedback on modification if succes/fail.

Thank you, I need to do this too

Very good video. Spent most of it chuckling from Sussex! Thank you

A great video. Thank you very much!

I found this video after I commented yesterday on a video you made later the next year ( May '21) my comment was about wheel bearings and the extra load certain things put on the vehicle. And my comment was about changing the bearing and or whole hub, now I know what the answer is lol you change the whole bloody thing! What an expense rather than disassembling the hub from the bearing then taking the bearing out of the hub a lot more work but far more RU-vid content for your channel lol. Christian and Vera May I ask what part of Germany do you live in? It certainly looks nice!

Great advice at the end, "if you can't do your own work, don't buy a LandRover," exactly..!

What a great video! Thanks a lot Chirstian and Vera!

Thank's a lot for all these video. thank's again to take time .

I really like you videos guys, good work. I'm about to replace my rear control arms so wish me luck 😁.

brilliant! Christian you made that look easy! had to use lots of gas to heat mine! very jealous :)

Very nice athmosphere

Great work. A hug from Portugal

Brilliant video, a pleasure to watch, funny as well. Excellent.

I had to hammer my front hubs off for at least 30 minutes each! I cannot believe you just pulled that out! Swiss road salt perhaps!

Just started watching the video, but I suggest getting the Timken wheel bearings. They are the OEM parts; they cost twice as much as SKF, but they will last at least 100k km.

wish the music was a bit lower for the bearing sounds but still love your videos :)

Hi Vera and christian, hope this finds u both well, thks as always for ur continued awesome videos , also had a freelander TD4 before the D3 , was wondering and hope I’m not being cheeky in asking , I’ve had to add more tools coming from a freelander TD4 to the D3 and was wondering if u may have some spare time to share from ur experience of what tools you’ve found are vital for the upkeep / must have / maintaining of the D3 please, be it a specialist tool or just a simple thing that’s made ur life easier please , as I also thought that maybe others have found a tool to be a great addition to a D3 toolbox , many thks once again and hope u didn’t mind me asking , stay safe 👍👍👍

I would like to know why it failed ,,great video

Us LR folks in the UK would welcome some castle videos! Also do you publish Veras photos anywhere?

Can you advise how to out the vehicle into access mode and disable air suspension prior to doing this work? Thanks and great video!

Nice video! What jack have you?

great content ,I have 2012 lr4 baltic blue with 198k

Hi. Please replace your oil pump housing to the stronger version if you haven’t yet, I was about to change the cam belts in a few weeks as the timing belt was due. My engine has now destroyed it self. Not happy. The engine now needs to be replaced. Lots of money. The original oil pump housing is weak and breaks the cam tensioner pulley into itself. I’m replacing the motor as this is the best car I’ve owned. Roy.

Good morning Christian and Vera Enjoyed your video as always and learned a lot I have a couple of comment and questions please Are you running 18” wheels? What Hankook winter tyres are they? And you appear to be running the standard size disc?-will the TUV allow you to run updated v8 discs pads and callipers which I have done on mine with EBC green stuff pads? If you do this upgrade the forums say to use Red stuff pads which I will next time. I look forward to a reply please! Regards Phil

great help thank you !!! just fixed mine 👍👍👍

Great Video and love the detail! You have a new subscriber. I also have a wheel bearing noise on my LR3 but it sounds like it's coming from the rear. One thing you mentioned in the beginning is to to disable the air suspension before jacking up the LR3. You mentioned to disconnect the 3rd fuse from the bottom? What was the exact fuse you pulled and is that the only thing need before jacking up the LR3? Thanks so much Mike

I love watching you two guys 👍🏻😎🇬🇧

I will do this work next week. I bought skf parts... 156€X2 left and right ( autodoc ) 🇫🇷 FRANCE

Another great video above and beyond 👏 👌

Great Video, I realy love your videos and the channel. I have a question: ...at what mileage you had to replace the first one?

Love your style guys!

What was the brand of wheel bearing? Also, how has it held up in comparison to the more expensive brands?

Love the video all the way from Jamaica big shot out koooool

I agree the cheap bearings last just as long as the expensive ones. Even if they last half the time, they are usually 3 times cheaper.

Oh my tomorrow (Monday) I am scheduled with an appointment to take ours (LR3) in to our friendly local mechanic to change the wheel bearings on both sides of the front. Id been noticing a lot of road noise and lately has become woo woo woo woo. I thought the road noise was the rugged looking tires my wife picked a year and a half ago and then recently i thought the tires need rotating..finally my somewhat worn brain remembered we had been through this before. Some three years ago we changed the Wheel bearing on one side..I used a good non OEM.. Now the mechanic said its a wheel bearing. Ive decided to do both so that I can get some quiet in the car again. I'm not sure which has failed but will find out tomorrow..the non OEM with 30k Miles (unlikely) or the original on the other side for 190,000 miles. He got me the OEM Timken for a good price but unlike the original Timken are I think no longer made in USA. Also with that many miles its been suggested we use Royal Purple Synthetic Engine Oil which costs so much more than the Synthetic Pensoil but we want this thing to last. What a beautiful job you did on the undercoat paint job..goodness gracious.Wonderful videos.Thank you.

Have you replaced the cheap bearing already? I just came in after replacing a cheap bearing that lasted a little over a year. :O This time i used Timken.

Nice job. Love that German humour. Cheers

Great video. Thankyou

Great video

Please do a rear wheel bearing video..mine are shot and it's a lot more involved :(

Good job Sir 👍

To check for wheel bearing noise; on a straight road, put gearbox into neutral about 40mph, ease steering gently right or left, whichever side gets noisier as you turn that way, thats the side with the problem!