I'm pretty much broke and looking for work. I have to keep driving the car 'til I can find work. I don't know when I will be able to fix these things, but I'm wondering what will happen the longer I drive on bad bearings and intermediate drive shaft.
its a front wheel drive no drive shaft. you have two axles,two wheel bearings and the final drive bearings in the transmission. which bearings do you think you need
Very unusual for front wheel bearing to fail. Why did you say drive shaft earlier? The car has CV axles that act like drive shafts. If one fails, you are going to have to have a tow. Jack up the car on one side then the other. Look for a shaft that goes to the wheel from the trans axle. There should be 2 boots per axle. If the boots crack they will be covered with dirt and grease. This will eventually precipitate the universal joint within the boot to fail and break. On wheel bearings, if they are bad, you may or may not be able to drive the car until one of them seizes. Then you will need a tow. Maybe you should get used to using public transportation. Either way, you are going to have to get your problem fixed. It's like my wife. Her Honda needs both CV axles, a timing chain and ball joints on both sides. I want her to drive my 89 Pontiac until I can fix her Honda, but she complains that she doesn't like the gas mileage on the Pontiac. I told her, what does it matter? She has three things that are eventually going to drop her in the middle of the freeway and maybe getting run over by a semi truck. I plan on sabotaging her Honda so she if forced to use the Pontiac. Don't get yourself stuck out on a limb. Either park the Honda and get on public transportation or get it fixed. By the way, my wife's Honda Accord has 450,000 miles on it.
