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Old 12-12-2009, 10:56 AM
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this guy ran me off the road and i had to pull some James Bond moves to get out of traffic and prevent death, but it resulted in me slamming my car into a curb. the left front wheel is bent in and the back left wheel is bent out. the measurements are all off, on the left they are over the normal degree, and on the right they are below. i know there is a way i can do this myself but i am not having any luck with a repair manual for this one. can anyone help me fix this so i am not paying 1000's of dollars and waiting forever to get it done?
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this guy ran me off the road and i had to pull some James Bond moves to get out of traffic and prevent death, but it resulted in me slamming my car into a curb. the left front wheel is bent in and the back left wheel is bent out. the measurements are all off, on the left they are over the normal degree, and on the right they are below. i know there is a way i can do this myself but i am not having any luck with a repair manual for this one. can anyone help me fix this so i am not paying 1000's of dollars and waiting forever to get it done?
Call your insurance company. Buy some replacement wheels, any bent components and then get an alignment if you want to do it on the cheap. If theres frame damage theres no way around getting it put on a frame machine and bent back out.
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IMO it would be a good idea to take the car to a body shop and have them put it on a lift and take some measurements of the frame to be sure nothing is out of place. and if the frame is straight then it should be as simple as swapping out some bent suspension parts and the damaged wheels and getting a 4 wheel alignment

you certainly dont want to buy all the bent parts and replace them and then the car track really badly from a twisted frame. Depending how hard you hit the curb (which it sounds pretty hard) there may or may not be frame damage.
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Time for some new wheels
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pics or it didnt happen
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pics or it didnt happen
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Replace any damaged parts and have it aligned.
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Default Re: curbbed my poor s2000.. how can i repair it myself?

well...you didn't tell us which parts were damaged. We have no idea if this is something you can do by yourself.

Figure out what's broken first. Could be as simple as a control arm and a wheel...or could be a subframe...or your chassis could be tweaked, steering rack could be damaged...etc. etc. etc.
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