One of the rear bearings on my wife's Daewoo Matiz is getting more and more noisy... I've had a look in the workshop manual and it doesn't look too difficult. It's got the bearings in the rear brake drum hub, which seems odd to me, but I've never had to attack the rear bearings on a FWD car before!

I was just wondering if anyone on here has changed one, and whether there are any gotchas or special tools that may be needed.

cheers,
David

Seem to remember that set up on a mark 3 escort I once had. Just treat the drum as the hub, which is what it is.
Swearing at it when it's going wrong often helps, I find

Hi david if you u2u me your address I have the manual on cd that I had for our matiz yr 2000 800cc if its any use to you i'll post it to you can have it.

Kev

Drift out the old bearing, press in the new with an suitably sized socket and wind up the nut to 24Nm, pull the ring pull, glug glug, ahhhhhhhh

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Originally posted by wrigglypig
Hi david if you u2u me your address I have the manual on cd that I had for our matiz yr 2000 800cc if its any use to you i'll post it to you can have it.

Kev

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Originally posted by Mark Allanson
Drift out the old bearing, press in the new with an suitably sized socket and wind up the nut to 24Nm, pull the ring pull, glug glug, ahhhhhhhh

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They're all like that nowadays, I did my daughter's Corsa and it's a half hour job on that.

my better half has a 800cc matiz and i'm of the opinion that, even though it's cheap to run, buy and insure it needs to die there horrible little cars i've been tempted to crash it a few times, but then i remember that the engines about 1" away from my legs!

True - it's perfect for her (short hops in and out of town, etc.) but I hate driving it.