Hey guys, my friend was swapping rims on his 01 teg from gsr blades to Rota C8's and while jacking the car up with the spare tire jack did one wheel at a time. but upon doing the front driver side. when the rim was off, the car slammed to the ground on the rotor.

-> now my question is what are the posible damages that he has done.

he hears rattlign noises when he goes less than 40km/h but goes away when braking, and above 40 km/h the sound goes away or perhaps his Dunlop FM901 Sport tires drowns out the sound of it, since they make a loud noise.

shield looks alright, but i think its the wheel bearing? can anybody tell me other posible causes?
TIA>

 

Well for 1 he prolly fukd up the rotor, and secondly if it sounds like a cheap *** aluminum rattle the its prolly just the shield. I could be alot of things, doesn't really sound like a wheel or axle bearing, it would be more of a clicking.


Could be the links to the front sway bar but i dunno??

 

hm..okay.
liek there is no play in the steering..
i was assuming bearing cuz tahts what most people are telling me of the case.
but the rotor seems to be fine. shield looks pretty well bent still..i mean just the minor damage from teh droppage location but thats it.

 

yeah.....a drop from 2 ft or so wont do anything at all to the rotor......if anything, it'll just bend the dust shield

 

bad wheel bearing promotes wheel wobblies

 

okay so i hope its just the shield than, i'll give that a world and see what happens.

 

SAFETY FIRST GUY'S!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

time to invest in some jack stands and a proper jack

glad to hear nobody got hurt!

 

yeah nobody got hurt, the car was only jacked one wheel at a time. so safety stands weren't really necessary, its like changing the tires when you have a flat, thast how he did it, one wheel at a time. jacking all the corners..
but yeah im going to check the dust shield.
thx guys.