ok the exposition of this story is pretty irrelevant. lets just leave it that im a ******* moron. that should suffice.

today i hit the divider in the middle of the highway. that white piece that sticks up and partitions off the traffic heading in different directions. anyways, i hit it, the car starts pulling HEAVILY right. i pull over on the shoulder and im lucky to have minimal damage on my bumper. i look at the rim and its all scratched up as well as some small chunks out of the sidewall of the tire.

i drive home and how you would normally go straight by holding the wheel in the 3/9 positions, i had to hold the steering wheel at 1/7 to get it to move straight. so ive been thinking (rather naively) that the rim is bent and that im gonna just get a set of kosei's. then i have the idea to actually put that hypothesis into practice. i pull out my donut and give it a test run. car still pulls HEAVILY right. ****.

now im not really big on all the suspension of the car. i dont know if the axel is fucked or control arms, or what. i just dont know much about that stuff. i have a helms and im willing to do it myself. i like to learn. but if its a big job i understand i will have to pay someone reputable (honda?) to do it.

basically by the description i gave, does anything think that have an idea of whats going on? any help in the slightest is greatly appreciated. any ideas at all.

 

one of your arms are probably bent. sometimes not visibily too noticeable. your alignment is giving you major issues right now. an arm doesn't always have to be bent to make the car pull severely.

does the tire look to be out of whack in placement. meaning, toe, camber or actual placement of tire in the wheel well.

either take it to an alignment shop to check specs or a body shop. probably not much damage at all.

 

well yes.. i forgot to mention thanks.. i dont know if it is toe or camber. not sure of the word but i think its camber. when you position yourself near the ground like say next to the back wheel and look forward, the front wheel is bent in. the top of the wheel is sticking out and the bottom of the wheel is bent in. when i put the donut on it appeared ok, but i guess the small rim was deceiving. the wheel looks like this character:

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hmm and now that i think of it shouldnt the car be pulling left?

the worst part is that i was 5 minutes from my house on route 3. sigh.





[Modified by illusion, 8:34 PM 8/22/2002]

 

im gonna see if i can get pics up in a few days

 

Sounds like a buster Lower control arm.

 

Try looking at the bar that runs from the wheel to the radiator support. Sorry, I cannot remember the name of it right now.

Anyway, look at the rubber bushings where it meets the radiator support. I hit a curb once, and the nut/washer pulled through the bushing.