Rear wheel bearing

After hearing a loud humming noise I inspected the rear tire see no issues. The mechanic says most likely it is the rear passenger wheel bearing. Any recommendations on an aftermarket brand. Paying $300 for OEM seems too much for me.
2008 TRD 2WD SR5 97,000 miles.

 

I would get something like that from the dealer.

But if you must, autozone should be fine

 

I just put a wheel bearing hub assembly on my wife's Venza. it was $391 OEM from toyota. $215 from Advance auto. However, if you bought the MOOG bearing (3 year warranty) from advance Auto online and picked up in store you saved 25% (50 bucks) after giving them your email address.

Out the door for $160 as i bought in NH with No sales tax.

Moog is respected for bearings. and 3 year warranty (the job is overall easy) is the best warranty i've seen. (lesson learned to remove wheel hub nut before removing rotor/brake assembly) again i'm generalizing as i haven't done this on the truck only the car).

I'm assuming the hub assembly for the truck is similar to the car for price comparision.

Good luck.

(Oh, and if you take wide sweeping turns with the truck (empy parking lot etc) and the noise (loading and unloading that wheel) changes its a wheel bearing. lifting the truck up in the air (wheels) and trying to feel for play (horz/vert and corner to corner) could be a wheel bearing also. Her car only made noise over 40 mph and i think i have a bad tire (after balancing and alignment) i still get the thumping noise in her car. But, that one wheel had play when it was off the ground.

You could rotate the tires and see if the noise follows the tire (that might rule out the bearing as well)

 

A rear wheel bearing is not something I would do without a hydraulic press. Without one you are pretty much dependent on what your mechanic wants to do. I would use a name brand aftermarket bearing. Chances are you can get just the bearing or the bearing and hub assembly. I'm guessing the $300 is the assembly. It's not like Toyota makes it's own bearings.