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01-21-2020, 11:19 PM | #1 |
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Curve hit, gone wrong! ;( Help!!
Hello there fellow subie compatriots, before telling you what is my threat, I’ll you give insight on the problem. I know, I know, how you lose control on an AWD? It could happen, even to best of us, so what is the issue you may ask! (Cut the bull **** off). So long story short, I smashed my right front wheel in a curve, now Im stuck without the daily driver and with a huge hole in my wallet. I noticed that the wheel was completely bent in, so I figured the control arm was the one that received most of the damage, (the rim was gone). I replaced the rack and pinion, the lower control arm, and the rotors, but guess what? The wheel still looks cricked. The mechanic is now telling me that the HUB AND KNUCKLE ASSEMBLY is bent, however I do NOT want to get the part and end up with the part not making any changes to the problem, my question is: Is it possible for the knuckle assembly to be the cause of the misalignment? Or is a much more complex problem? Any suggestions and ideas, will be welcomed! Thanks. -2011 WRX
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01-22-2020, 01:25 AM | #2 |
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You may want to think about opening an insurance claim to help with costs.
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01-22-2020, 01:35 AM | #3 |
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01-22-2020, 08:51 AM | #4 |
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I'm not sure which of your similar threads is going to be retained, so here's what I posted in the other one. No flame intended.
If what you mean by 'cricked' is that the passenger side wheel appears to be tipped out at the top (positive camber) after all of those other things had already been replaced, then yes, the hub/knuckle assembly is very likely bent. This does assume that the repair shop inspected for damages such as the crossmember having somehow bent or shifted, or the strut being bent or otherwise damaged, and then corrected any of those things that were off spec as part of the repair process to date. If you have or can get a printout of the alignment settings before and after the R&P and control arm were replaced, that could provide clues. FWIW, and no flame intended (poo happens to all of us at one time or another), but AWD is not a cure-all for handling problems or a silver-bullet savior for all situations that catch the driver out beyond what his skill set can recover him from. AWD is still subject to the same laws of physics as FWD or RWD. Yes, AWD has the advantage over the other two as far as forward acceleration is concerned, which in street driving translates to the ability to pull away from a full stop when the road is slippery (or you're not on pavement at all). Braking and cornering have essentially the same limits as those of any good 2WD car. The problem comes when people wrongly assume that AWD's forward acceleration advantage extends to cornering and braking (I fully understand how that could be a really easy assumption to make, but it's wrong and AWD doesn't). Again, no flame intended. Norm |
01-22-2020, 09:05 AM | #5 |
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Boy. This sure sounds like it should have been the perfect candidate for a junk yard run. Pull everything, pay $200, bolt it all in, profit. Sorry to hear your troubles. Yes, you're still rocking some bent pieces.
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01-22-2020, 02:01 PM | #6 |
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[quote=Norm Peterson;46220384]I'm not sure which of your similar threads is going to be retained, so here's what I posted in the other one. No flame intended.
Norm, Thank you so much for all the important information, and yes indeed the “cricked” tire is pushed in from the bottom, and tilted out from the top, but adding to what I mentioned before, I haven’t actually been able to take the car to the mechanical shop, a mobile mechanic was the one helping me sort this out, however I was planing on doing the alignment and figure what else was damaged, but the car is not drivable! And my only option left at the moment is the hub/knuckle assembly, which Im scared to buy because the original part doesn’t look bended at all to the visible eye, and im afraid it will end up not being it, and the major problem would be frame damage! |
01-22-2020, 02:03 PM | #7 |
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well you can be thankful you only hit a curve and not a curb, curves are way more forgiving
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01-22-2020, 02:14 PM | #8 |
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01-23-2020, 12:40 PM | #9 |
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struts?
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