2011 m37x chewing through wheel bearings

[fuzzysig]

just replaced a wheel bearing on pass side for the 3rd time in 3 years.
They all look like they overheated.
given the first one was chineseoreillys brand
The other two were precision brand which supposed to be better.
And im still getting contact sound when breaking when turning hard at slow speed
And intermittent drag when breaking
And now its squeal when i press the brakes lightly but squeal goes away when i press harder.
But the drag is still there about 1/4 of the wheel rotation.
There is no contact marks on anything.
I took it apart at least 6 times and looked over every damn corner and surface for contact marks but there are none. On any of the parts.


When someone drives the car i can hear it as i follow but there again is nothing visual to tell what is the problem


This started after i replaced the pads and rotors
I had a vibration from driver side.
After replacing i had vibration from both sides
Warrantied out the rotors. Same vibration with fresh ones
Replaced wheel bearings same issue.

[Ilya]

Odd...the squealing may be a stuck caliper or something? I have something similar happening on my QX60 with pretty new pads and rotors...

But I don't know how a dragging brake system would impact the wheel bearing...