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Originally Posted by 80stech
Expecting the same quality from a $50 bearing replacing a $300 dollar one is ridiculous. FAG is not what it used to be, it has been bought out along with INA and a bunch of other brg. companies by a company called Scheffler so they can pretty well put what ever bearing from what ever country in what ever box they want. I wouldn't feel bad at all about the $290 brg. especially knowing that the SKF (which is still SKF and $130) is the BMW value line replacement and is a tad noisier than the original.
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FAG bearings are about the same price that they've always been for me. I don't know where you were paying $300 for a FAG bearing, but they were under $100 at the BMW parts counter 20 years ago for me. $100 for a bearing at BMW, usually meant that you could get it for half that elsewhere. And 20 years ago, BMW sold them in the FAG boxes.
The last time I had a Koyo, it lasted less than 10,000 miles. There's nothing magical about wheel bearings. If you really want them to last, pick out the seals and repack them with a high end synthetic grease.
FWIW, I believe that Timken is now Koyo's USA brand. Timken rear bearings are also about $50. Koyo is hard to buy under the Koyo brand in the US.