I replaced wheel studs on my Grand Cherokee last year and didn't have a press. I had to buy extra wheel nuts and washers and press them on with a breaker bar, kind of hard to explain. If I had the press it would have been so much easier! As far as bearings, I've always had to buy assemblies (wheel hub, compressor, pulley, etc) with the bearing already installed or use a shop's hydraulic press because I don't have one. You simply cannot have too many tools, only too little space to keep them.

I'm not the type to give up on a mechanism made up of replaceable parts. I've seen many people post threads saying they'll never buy "insert brand" of pistol ever again because they had a couple of malfunctions. It can drive people mad because they think it's cursed and needs to be discarded. I look at it as me having the inclination to fix it so that's why it was chosen for me. Then once it's fixed I'll be rewarded with reliability and will never want to get rid of it.