Patients is running thin now

[S60D5-185]

Totally agree.

You don't want to have to do that job twice.

Fit quality and forget about it 👍

[jim jordan]

Originally Posted by paddy74

It's more important than usual, to get good quality here.
My pre-owner changed the rear wheel bearing to parts from "polarparts" (both rear bearings together for 38.-EUR incl. shipping). They didn't even last for two years or roughly 10000km... Both were an advisory at the german MOT (so must be changed by me)... In the meantime I've changed all four to SNF/FAG...

dam thought polar parts were good stuff

[paddy74]

Originally Posted by jim jordan

dam thought polar parts were good stuff

Nope, unfortunately not. All I've seen from them was cheap ****. That includes the two wheel bearings, one ball joint and one tie rod end. But that can be only my experience!

There are a few manufacturers that are known for specific parts (Lemförder for ball joints or strut bearings, SKF for wheel bearings and so on), besides that I mostly use Skandix, at least as a guideline for what price range to look for. Skandix is mostly around 10% over the other sites like Motointegrator or Amazon. Whereever you look, if it's under that, it's nothing you want in your car, if you want to keep it.