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Replace trailer wheel bearings cost calculator
Work out what replacing trailer wheel bearings will cost from the bearing kits, the seals and grease, any hub or spindle damage, and the shop's labor per hub. A routine repack on a tandem trailer is a modest job with cheap parts. A bearing that seized on the road is a different bill, because a scored spindle means a new hub or a spindle repair rather than a set of races. The calculator adds up your quote.
Typical range $210 – $371
- Bearing kits$60
- Seals, grease & hardware$30
- Hub, drum or spindle repair$0
- Labor (hubs × hours × rate)$158
- Total$248
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$200 to $600 is a full tandem set done at once, or one axle with a hub that needed replacing. Ask whether the quote covers seals and grease.
What this assumes, and where it could be wrong
Every one of these is a place the number could be off. They are here because you should be able to check our working, not because we are hedging.
THE PARTS ARE CHEAP AND THE LABOR IS PER HUB.
A routine repack and a failed bearing are two different jobs. Pulling clean hubs, fitting fresh bearings and seals, and setting the preload is maintenance. A bearing that seized on the road can score the spindle, blue the hub, and sometimes damage the brake assembly behind it, and then you are buying a hub or paying for a spindle repair sleeve as well. The damage input above is where that difference lands.
A new grease seal goes in every time the hub comes off. Seals cost very little next to the rest of the job and they are the ones that keep the grease in and the water out, so reusing one to save a few dollars is what brings the trailer back. Boat trailers that get dunked need particular care here, which is why bearing protectors and marine grease are common on them.
Doing all the hubs on an axle at once is usually the cheaper path. The trailer is already jacked and the wheels are already off, so the second hub on an axle costs mostly parts rather than a fresh setup. If one bearing has failed, the others have run the same miles under the same load, and a second visit costs the teardown twice.
The defaults are ours and are a starting point. The parts and the shop rate are yours, and the estimate turns most on the hub count, the shop's hours, and whether a bearing has already damaged a spindle or hub.