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The short version
- An Elantra wheel bearing at the rear splits by ABS on the 2008 to 2010 cars.
- 512340 with four wheel ABS and 512410 without it. The year alone will not order the right one.
- From 2017, the catalogs only label the rear for the Elantra GT hatchback, never for the plain sedan.
- Everything bolts on at both ends from 2007 on. No newer car needs a press.
The Elantra is one of the cheaper cars on this site to have this job done on. Two catches sit inside the 2000 to 2020 span this page covers.
One is an ABS split in a three year window at the rear. The other is a body style split that starts in 2017 and never gets resolved for the sedan.
Confirm the year and, on newer cars, the badge on the hatch before ordering anything. Both details change the answer here. Neither one is optional once the car is past its first body style.
The table below runs the whole 2000 to 2020 span in one place, oldest press in numbers and newest hub numbers alike.
Three separate body redesigns sit inside that span. Each one changed the front, and only some of them changed the rear at the same time.
The front changes twice before 2007, then holds one bolt on number through 2016. The rear runs on its own clock, with the ABS split confined to 2008 through 2010. Both timelines end at the same 2017 wall, where the catalogs stop labeling the sedan at all.
The ABS split
On 2008 to 2010 cars the rear hub is 512340 with four wheel ABS and 512410 without it.
Check what the car actually has rather than what the model year suggests.
Cross referencing is on the cross reference page. Fitting the sensor ring the right way round matters here too, and that is on the orientation page.
Trim level is not a reliable guide to which ABS setup a given car has. The safest check is still the part coming off the car.
Before 2008 and after 2010, the rear does not carry this split at all. The three year window is the only place it matters.
A second catalog splits the 2011 and 2012 rear by engine size instead of leaving it flat. The 1.8 liter car and the 2.0 liter car each get their own number in that reading. That distinction sits alongside the flat number already in the table, not in place of it.
The GT hatchback and the sedan part ways after 2016
From 2017, every catalog row for the front hub is labeled for the Elantra GT hatchback. None of them are labeled for the plain sedan.
That number is not extended to the sedan on this page. A 2017 or newer sedan front gets an honest gap instead of a borrowed GT number.
The rear tells a similar story. The Elantra GT hatchback rear carries real numbers through 2020. The plain sedan rear goes undocumented from 2017 onward, the same as the sedan front.
Confirm which body style is in front of you before trusting any 2017 or newer row. A GT badge on the hatch is the plainest tell. The two cars do not share a nameplate either.
The GT hatchback and the sedan look related but are not the same car underneath for parts purposes. Treating them as interchangeable past 2016 is how the wrong hub ends up on order.
A sedan owner searching by the GT numbers above will find a part that was never listed for the car in front of them. That is worth knowing before ordering rather than after.
The base trim GT rear takes its own number from 2018, separate from the 2017 GT listing before it. That kind of trim specific split has not appeared anywhere else on this page. It is one more reason to confirm the exact listing rather than assuming last year’s part still applies.
The front was a press in ball before 2007
The 2000 model year alone takes 510055 at the front. 2001 through 2006 takes 510078, a different press in ball for the redesign that arrived that year.
From 2007 the front changes again, to a bolt on hub carrying number WE60843 through 2016 on the sedan.
A second catalog lists parallel numbers for the earlier cars too. WE60873 covers 1996 through 2000, and WE60870 covers 2001 through 2006. Match whichever number sits on the old part.
Neither 510055 nor 510078 is a hub. A press in ball is a different part entirely from what replaced it in 2007. What that distinction means for the tool needed is on the press in page.
A shop quoting the newer bolt on price for a press in car has the wrong job in mind. The labor and the tooling both differ between the two designs. Confirming the year before calling around saves a mismatched quote later.
The 2000 front number, 510055, is also listed for the Accent and the Tiburon of the same year. The 1996 to 2000 rear number, 512160, is shared with the Tiburon as well.
That kind of sharing is common across Hyundai’s smaller cars from this era. It rarely helps beyond confirming a number looks right, since the part still has to match by number rather than by badge.
The sharing does not extend forward past 2006 in the rows checked for this page. Each later redesign gets its own number, whatever badge sits on the hood.
The front and the rear do not always change in the same year on this car. The front’s 2007 switch to a bolt on hub came well before the rear’s last ABS year in 2010. Treating the two ends as one part family is how the wrong number ends up on order.
Confirm before replacing
Hyundai’s guidance tells technicians to place the noise at the knuckle and hub with listening tools before replacing anything.
That is unusually direct advice from a manufacturer, and it is worth holding a shop to it.
What that check looks like in practice is on the checking page. Skipping it is how a tire gets blamed on the bearing, or the other way around. A part swapped on a guess is money spent twice if the guess is wrong.
A shop that swaps a hub without listening first is guessing. The car itself usually settles which corner is at fault within a few minutes.
A dry creak on the first turn of the morning is often something else entirely, like a strut mount. A steady drone that rises with speed is the pattern worth chasing here.
That same listening check works on the press in cars and the later bolt on cars alike. The tool changes with the part, but the diagnosis does not. Confirming the source before ordering saves a second order more often than not.
A cheap job when the bearing is actually at fault
Bolt on hubs at both ends keep the labor down on cars from 2007 on. Parts are widely available, and the price spread between brands is wide too.
The seal and the encoder ring are where the cheapest units save money. A poor encoder lights the dash on the first drive, which erases any savings fast.
Pricing the job once the bearing is confirmed as the cause is on the quote page.
Labor time does not change much between the press in cars and the bolt on ones. Most of the price difference between shops comes from the part chosen, not the work involved.
A worn bearing rarely takes anything else with it if it is caught early. Left long enough, the same looseness that causes the noise starts to wear the hub bore and the knuckle around it.
A car built from 2007 through 2016 sees the widest brand selection of any Elantra on this page. Availability thins out once the search moves to the GT specific numbers past 2016. That thinner selection is one more reason to confirm the exact listing early.
Elantra wheel bearing part numbers
| Years | Detail | Number |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 to 2020 | Front, sedan and GT hatchback, past the catalogs | match old part or VIN |
| 2017 to 2020 | Rear, sedan only, past the catalogs | match old part or VIN |
| 2018 to 2020 | Rear, Elantra GT hatchback, Base trim | WE61903 check price |
| 2017 | Rear, Elantra GT hatchback only | WE60921 check price |
| 2013 to 2017 | Front, Elantra GT hatchback | WE60843 check price |
| 2013 to 2016 | Rear | 512492 check price |
| 2011 to 2012 | Rear | 512492 check price |
| 2008 to 2010 | Rear, with four wheel ABS | 512340 check price |
| 2008 to 2010 | Rear, without ABS | 512410 check price |
| 2007 to 2016 | Front, sedan | WE60843 check price |
| 2001 to 2006 | Front | 510078 check price |
| 2001 to 2006 | Front, parallel listing | WE60870 check price |
| 2001 to 2006 | Rear, with ABS | 512195 check price |
| 2001 to 2006 | Rear, without ABS | 512194 check price |
| 2001 to 2006 | Rear, four wheel ABS, parallel listing | WE61165 check price |
| 2001 to 2006 | Rear, Non-ABS, parallel listing | WE61041 check price |
| 1996 to 2000 | Front, parallel listing | WE60873 check price |
| 1996 to 2000 | Rear, parallel listing | WE61466 check price |
| 2000 | Front | 510055 check price |
| 2000 | Rear | 512160 check price |
Every model year this chart resolves: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. A 2017 through 2020 Elantra sits past the catalogs at the front, on both body styles, and at the rear on the plain sedan, so those positions go by the old part or the VIN. Only the Elantra GT hatchback rear still carries a real number across those same years.
The catalogs print a front number for the Elantra GT hatchback through 2017. They print a rear number for it through 2020. Neither number is printed under the plain Elantra sedan label for those years.
That is why this table gives the sedan its own honest gap, instead of quietly carrying the GT numbers over. Confirm the badge on the car before matching either set of rows.
Diagnosing an Elantra wheel bearing
The steps below work the same regardless of body style or year. A bearing sounds the same whichever number ends up ordered.
- Place the noise first, which is what the manufacturer guidance asks for.
- Rock the wheel at twelve and six with it raised.
- Weave at road speed to see whether the noise follows load to one side.
- Rotate the tires if the tread looks uneven, since that settles the commonest confusion.
- Compare hub temperatures after a drive across each axle.
Those checks are on the tire noise page. What differs between the two ends is on the front versus rear page.
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Common questions
Which Elantra wheel bearing do I need?
On 2008 to 2010 cars the rear splits by ABS, 512340 with and 512410 without. Confirm the body style too on a 2013 or newer car. The GT and the sedan are not treated the same past 2016.
Do I need a press?
Not at the rear, on any year. The front on cars up to 2006 is a press in ball rather than a hub. That end does need one.
How do I know if it has four wheel ABS?
Check the car itself rather than the model year. It varied by trim on the 2008 to 2010 cars. A dealership parts counter can also decode it from the VIN if the old part is already gone.
Is a 2017 or newer sedan really undocumented?
Yes, at both ends. The catalogs only label those years for the Elantra GT hatchback. This page does not carry that number over to the sedan.
Why is the ABS light on?
The encoder is part of the hub, so a failing hub usually takes the signal with it. That holds on both the press in cars and the later bolt on ones. A scan tool can usually tell which wheel the fault code points to before anything is ordered.