I am not sure this is commonly known but when i was changing my wheel bearing I came across an issue with the new nut provided with the bearing.

It didn't fit, apparently there has been an updated design and the new driveshafts require an updated nut. However it is assumed when you purchase the bearing that you have the original driveshaft installed and not the new one. There are no warnings either labels or printed note about this and it can be a costly mistake!

I have included links below to both the old and new nuts below. if you look you can see the difference in the threads.

New: https://www.advancedfactors.co.uk/lr024151...2742-p.asp

Old: https://www.advancedfactors.co.uk/rfd50002...4564-p.asp

 2010 RRS, TDV8
bali Blue / colour coded
side steps / flappy paddles
black perforated leather
22" overfinch
heated everything, TV,fridge ...... now with gold calipers and mud flaps !( black mud flaps that is) !!
Many years ago,,,,, 1955 series 1 landie , sometimes wish I had kept it

It’s a superseded part, they were changed at a particular VIN. I’ll have to check the EPC. 2019 5.0 SC SVA (Current)
2012 5.0 SC AB. Sadly written off by a campervan
23 plate Focus ST (Current)
1942 VEP Ford GPW Jeep (Willys) (Current)
1943 Whites M16 Halftrack (Current)
16 plate Eurofighter Typhoon, 2 x Eurojet engines with 20,000lbs thrust each. 1380mph

L/R don't actualy specify a VIN. change for just the nut, they say check the shaft to see which one is fitted prior to ordering, basically because the VIN may not be relevant if shafts had been previously changed to later one's I guess. Looking at the illustration if it is correct should be easy enough to tell difference one is a staked nut the other is a castellated style nut (LR024151) retained by split pin by the looks of it, although that may not be totally correct as my VIN starts DA (MY13) and that has staked nuts, may be down to which manufacturer supplied the shafts at the time.

Cheers
Col

The new nut is a much coarser thread, and is self locking

Handy to know. Thanks  Kev

MY2014 L405 RR Vogue SE 4.4 SDV8 in Corris Grey
MY2010 L320 RRS HSE 3.0 TDV6 in Stornoway Grey

Ive just replaced both wheel bearings on my early MY2010 and with the wheel bearings I purchased from AF Factors the wheel nut fitted fine onto the drive shaft. First I have heard of this and perhaps more luck than judgement in getting the wheel nut to fix. Surely there must be a start point of either date or vin number when the drive shaft changed, or a reason why the drive shafts were changed/altered.  Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

I think the problem is L/R list the two different nuts right through from 2005 up to 2013 the same with the drive shafts up until VIN No. DA800001 when the part number for the shaft changed to I assume a different shaft. The earlier shaft numbers have now been superseded to the same numbers as the later one's, so some earlier vehicles may have had the shafts replaced for whatever reason with the later shaft which is why L/R say to check the drive shaft before ordering just the nut, if you buy a new shaft from L/R I imagine it will have or be the later style nut. But in the case of pattern parts it may be different as I see GKN is mentioned but they could be o.e. It would appear the S/C and TDV8 have a different shaft to the 3.0 and 2.7 although the nuts are the same two for all, they may all be the same shaft now as well though, would have to cross reference part numbers to find that out.

Cheers
Col