Napa wheel bearing

Has anyone used napa’s rear wheels bearings? Currently looking at the BRG versions about 250 a piece

 

The Napa BRG line is usually made by SKF. Good quality. They also sell Altrom which is supposed to be good, for about the same price. The cheaper line, line Napa Solutions NOE is a cheaper house brand, which I would not run.

I wanna say folks said they bought some of the cheaper options at RockAuto and received Koyo in the box, Koyo should be OEM for Toyota and so that might not be a bad way to go alternatively. You'll definitely spend more at Napa, but you do know what you're getting there: SKF or Altrom depending on what's chosen.

 

I asked this same wheel bearing question a while back, and was advised to be careful as many knockoff manufacturers are starting to laser-etch quality brand names on chinesium bearings; fakes are getting harder to spot at first glance. Ordering bargain bearings and receiving Koyos would wave a few red flags for me. YMMV

 

Solid point. Just reporting what I saw from others, I probably wouldn’t order them as they are totally possible to be fake.

 

Thanks for the feed back. Ended up getting the brg line from napa. Napa has a 20% off sale on the brg line so it wasn't to bad of a deal

 

The rear bearings are a lot of work to change. If NAPA uses SKF as reported. You should be fine.

The important part is getting good parts from a reliable vendor. As well as a good shop or good mechanic to install the parts.

Bent and gouged axles are expensive to replace.

 

This is true. I bought a SKF rear wheel bearing and it had a Koyo bearing in it.