Well, on a recent trip I heard the sound... approaching 400K miles I will
soon need rear wheel bearings (and sneaking in the question, how far will
they go between the first noise and giving up completely?). I am following
Alistair's old blog because his techniques comes closes to the way I will
be doing the work.

But upon consulting my bentley, I see on 42.4, "During repairs on vehicles
prior to VIN 25ZBH119362 install new sleeves and axle nuts and torque nuts
to 500 Nm."

What are the thoughts on "always replace" in this case? If it's important,
who offers a kit and if no one, what are the part numbers? I already have
all bearings and seals I need. I just didn't anticipate spacers and the nut.

Thanks,

Jim