Creaking Rear Bearings

[NL03Scooby]

Ok folks, bit of a strange one, recently had both rear wheel bearings replaced, I supplied the parts after purchasing them from Import Car Parts.

After picking the car up from the garage I was delighted the rather nasty drone from the original bearings had gone and all was well, one week later however and the back end makes a sound similar to that of a creaking door on The Archers! (The same garage did my front bearings and all is well there after a few months of driving).

The noise only occurs below roughly 10 mph, forwards or backwards, and is noticeable on the off side considerably over the near side. It is a noise I would expect to hear when metal is rubbing on rubber at a guess. The pitch of the noise definitely differs with wheel rotation speed and I know it is not calliper/disk/handbrake related as I have had them all of and the noise comes from inside the hub assembly.

In all honesty I want to get it checked out by the garage and they are happy to book it in again, just thought I would throw it on here first...

[Ginola]

Sounds like something is not right, check nothing is touching the wheel, brake line maybe.. its impossible to tell without hearing it, if you can't see/work out what it is with the wheel off then pop it back to them.. wouldn't go tearing anywhere just in case.

One other thought is that if they replaced just the bearings in the hubs then they could possibly have bent the dust shield protecting the disc itself when they removed/pressed in the new bearing, and it is rubbing but you don't hear it as you speed up.. worth a look, jack up wheel off and rotate..

[Hongkongfooi]

sounds like the garage that changed them should be sorting it