I have never had a problem with my Rio until two weeks ago. I decided to go get some new brakes because it has been a very long time- I went to Meineke in Augusta, GA and they said I needed new brakes front and rear, the rear are drum brakes and then they said I had hydraulic fluid leaking out the rear brakes. Ok so supposedly they fixed that and I drove off toward Atlanta. As soon as I got on the highway I heard a high pitched short squeal. Pulled over, didn't see anything wrong kept going. About an hour later there was a humming and racketty sound coming from my rear left tire. Noticed something was wrong and slowed down and did notice that as I turned the steering wheel to the right the noise became louder. When the sound was unbearable I pulled off the highway, removed the wheel (the lug nuts were scorching hot) and found the whole drum brake was cracking in two and if I had made one more revolution (I tried later) on that tire the whole assembly would have broken off the car. Now Meineke finally paid for the fix at another Meineke close to Atlanta but is refusing to reimburse me for my other expenses saying that I had a bad wheel bearing. Is that possible that I had a bad wheel bearing even though he had just worked on the brakes? I was told at the Atlanta Meineke at first that the original one had torqued it too tight or not packed the bearings, does anyone know how this damage could have been caused.
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17 years ago