Hi everyone... I just had my kerb side wheel bearing replaced, trouble is the mechanic quote an extra 250 for new pads and I said no I'll do this myself, then a week after I had the bearing done by him I saw that my inner CV boot/gater was completley torn into two seperate peices and grease everywhere, the machanic that did the job denies that it was his doing
My take on it is that with evething apart ther was no way he couldn't have not sighted this and missed this whilst doing the Wheel bearing as at the very least he would have sighted all the grease that was thrown all over the place from the torn Gater and at the very minimum he would have called & reported this in hopes he would get the extra money/work for replacing it.
He also stated it would be impossible for him to rip the inner boot whilst doing a wheel bearing repair, my limited experience thinks if he had trouble with disconnecting the drive shaft fron the hub and pulled on the whole assemly towards him whilst the trying to free it from the hub, it would tear the CV boot if old as mine is as I have a 4 speed auto Nissan Maxima 2003 ST-R 3.0 V6 (A33). (Australia) ...Can anyone throw there opinion on it.

 

I doubt he tore the boot pulling off the steering knuckle.

 

Precisely why I don't work on other people's cars. The last one to touch it gets blamed for everything that goes wrong with it in the future.

 

I do a lot of side work on peoples cars and in the process I'll notify them with texts and pics if I find other issues.

 

thanks though it wasn't the steering Knuckle its was the inner cv boot thats I was referring to, please note.. the week before he done the job I had the car jacked up and wheel off and it looked fine then. The only reason I didn't do it myself was after watching you tube videos it seems I need a bearing press..for the wheel bearing.. video also indicated I need to take everything apart like the strut, tie rod end. Bottom ball joint..then pull the hub forward whilst hitting the centre hub nut..and this is the part where I reckon hes done the damage as the shaft is splined and will pull forward enough to rip the cv boot if old.(unlike some of the other comments suggested)...

 

I guarantee he did not tear the boot, just a coincidence that the 2 events occurred around the same time