If you've owned a MINI for any length of time/mileage you know that wheel bearings start to go once you hit (in my experience) 100K miles. In the case of our first MINI, the rears were getting noisy at about 125K miles; I replaced the fronts shortly after the rears.

On my current project car ('09 Justa with 151K miles) I found these FVP wheel bearings with a lifetime warranty, and a budget friendly price; Yep, they are made in Chins, but the best warranty you'll find from big name manufacturers like SKF, Timken, NTK, and Moog is 3 years/36K miles. I replaced the rears in less than 45 minutes. A lot of the thump, thump, thump noise is gone; now I can clearly hear the fronts are making a lot of racket too, so they will get replaced next week.

https://www.rockauto.com/en/moreinfo...t=1636&jsn=351

 

Any bearing you buy from FCP has a lifetime warranty.

With that type of warranty you will typically get one free replacement. I'd rather go with a known, quality brand that i'm reasonably confident will last a long time. A lifetime warranty isn't worth much if you have to change the part in 2-3 years with the same poor quality part.

 

Mine lasted about 80-100K then i had replace them, no matter the brand. I gone through a couple sets with my almost 300K miles MINI. And on the 120K R56. Front tend to go first and do both at the same time (each side).

SKF and NTN were my go to. Febi used to be UK and I had those, now its china.


We also now have a lifetime replacement on most parts! Even performance parts that most places don't carry!

https://www.ecstuning.com/LifetimeReplacement/

 

Mini r59 hasn’t made it to 15k but a lot of those were track miles…do I suck it up as car is over 11 years old
Or should I be looking at 2 part discs, Gp brakes and padgid rsl 29 to avoid heat going into my hubs ?
(600 quid will pay for 4 sets of hubs but man maths might make it work…)

I think hitting curbs cannot help…