I was in Flagstaff Arizona this weekend to snowboard and when i was driving around in town it started to snow like no other.... they hadn't plowed the roads yet so there was a ton of snow on the road and i was driving down this hill pretty slow but my car is not at all setup for the snow.... my car started to slide to the right towards the curb so i turned the wheel to the left.... it did nothing... i pumped the brakes.... did nothing.... i ended up hitting the curb pretty hard directly on with my front right rim.... now when i hit the brakes my car pulls way to the right and makes this horrible like popping noise.... anyone know what that could be? thanks

ryan

 

Pull the wheel off and check. Only true way to know and it takes about 10 mins

 

yeah i was going to do that tomorrow.... its cold and dark and raining now

 

somebody must know.... come on

 

could be tie rods, bent wheel, damaged wheel bearing, bent axle.....who knows....gotta look for yourself....

 

alright thanks

 

either a tie rod, bent wheel, fucked bearings.

when you start to slide in a fwd car on snow point the car where you want it to go and ease on the gas...

 

i tried that.... failed miserably... lol... i was going down this hill and just got fucked pretty much.... thanks for the tip though

 

My suggestion is to practice using the e-brake. If you're understeering try to enduce oversteer to neutralize the car. Pull the brake not enough, you're still understeering, pull it and keep it there for too long, you're oversteering, pull it just right and you'll slide sidways for a second, that's when you ease into the throttle and neutralize the slide.

Try this in a controled situation, like an empty parking lot, unplowed prefferably, but dont be silly and do donuts, that's not productive, work on that technique specifically. Two winters and you'll be a pro.

- Vlad, who lives in Michigan, the worst roads, and some pretty bad snow.

 

thanks for the pointer but does anybody know what the hell is wrong with my car

 

only way to know is to look... people have already given you possibilities.

 

First of all your alignment is off (obvious). What's causing it? Well, you may have bent a tie rod, or another suspension component which could be causing your popping noise (you don't say when it happens - in turns, driving straight, over bumps etc...) There is a possibility that you have damaged the bearing too (i know, because i slid into a curb in the rain and had to replace my bearing due to whining noise, replace wheel due to shimmy and get alignment)

That's about all i can say without pulling the wheel off and looking at it.

 

If it happens ONLY during breaking maybe you just whooped your brake disc's ***. You have to take the wheel off and look.

BTW, is anything leaking?

 

Lower control arm is mostlikely bent! The LCA bend like butter. I remember hitting a curb at 45mph and Bent the suspensoin crossmember, LCA tierods ball joints the whole 9..

 

I did that a couple years ago. Slid into the curb due to snow covered ice. I hit the passenger side front tires on a nice big curb. Happened when I was leaving my apartment so I didn't have far to travel back which was good because I had to wrestle with the steering wheel because it was pulling so bad. I broke a chunk out of the rim, bent the lower control arm, tore a part of the subframe, bent the radius rod, somehow started leaking fluid from the brake line bolted to the back of the caliper(which was fine when it was all reassembled), don't know about the bearings I just replaced them to be safe. The tie rod and axle were both fine.

Doesn't sound like you did as much damage, good luck.

 

lol Donuts in the snow is major fun

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by TouringAccord &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I did that a couple years ago. Slid into the curb due to snow covered ice. I hit the passenger side front tires on a nice big curb. Happened when I was leaving my apartment so I didn't have far to travel back which was good because I had to wrestle with the steering wheel because it was pulling so bad. I broke a chunk out of the rim, bent the lower control arm, tore a part of the subframe, bent the radius rod, somehow started leaking fluid from the brake line bolted to the back of the caliper(which was fine when it was all reassembled), don't know about the bearings I just replaced them to be safe. The tie rod and axle were both fine.

Doesn't sound like you did as much damage, good luck.</TD></TR></TABLE>

yeah i dont think i messed my **** up that bad... nothing is leaking at all... when i go over bumps or hit the brakes is when it makes the noise and only when i hit the brakes is when it pulls... i am about to leave to go to my buddies shop so i can put it up on his lift and see whats the deal... thanks for all your help guys and i will let you know what i find... thanks

 

so i threw my car up on the lift and my upper control arm is bent and i put the car in gear while it was on the lift and noticed that the rim was all bent too.... thats all that i noticed was wrong so i am going to replace those parts and see how it works from there... the only problem is i called about getting a new wheel and they dont make my wheels anymore so i have to special order one from the company and wait like 3 weeks for a new one...thanks for your help everyone

 

if anyone has an upper control arm they want to give/sell me please let me know... thanks

ps: car is a 2001 honda accord coupe 4 banger

 

Check out a junkyard. Might be able to find an upper control arm there. Possibly a rim as well.

 

i was going to try that but there is no way they will have my rim there... they arent stock rims.... they are aftermarket....

 

Oh yeah...well that sucks.

 

yeah it does but there isnt much i can do about it