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I just replaced the front wheel bearing on my 1998 Buick le Sabre, and had a choice of a few brands. Chose Timken, ordered it, when it got here it said "Korea" on the box. This is a sealed bearing, not like the old bearing and race, and I noticed that on my original, the back of the outside bearing case (not race) was metal, and was plastic on the new bearing. Oh well, we shall see. Wanted to buy the best bearing I could so as not to do the job again in a few years. Before I did the job, I looked it up on you tube just to see, and get tips. The guy that was doing the job was working on a 2003 ford car I think it was. He was removing a second replaced bearing to install a 3rd bearing, in 12 years?! Claimed someone put in a cheap bearing from China…