somebody cut her off, and we sorta t-boned them going 10-15mph... my hood had a ding in it, and paint scraped off, my bumper was hanging, and the beam that holds the grill up was bent towards the right, and the car pulls to the right. the headlight moved about an inch over into the fender and the fender moved a bit. also, a piece that was held up by the fender snaped open like a "V" guess it moved a 1/4" w/ the fender.





since the accident, i've had the hood straightened out and repainted, i threw some touch up paint on the bumper (looks decent), got a new license plate frame... aligned the headlight some what and prolly pushed the fender in 1/4". so from the outside the car looks great, like nothing happend.

the only problem w/ the car is that it pulls to the right, slightly. i drive and let the wheel go, it drives by itself, but the wheel is 1/2" turned to the left. when i hold the wheel straight the car pulls to the right, slightly. i got an alighnment the other day, and even adjusted the rear right toe. the mechanic said both right tires were facing to the right. the car still pulls to the right, slightly still after the alignment.

so, i thought maybe it was the frame. today i took the bumper off and stuff, and everything looked pretty good from what i could see.



i straightened out the front bumper beam a little bit (pic below), just used a flat head to push it out a bit. other than that everything looked ok.



right now i'm just concerned about the car pulling to the right, what could it be guys? the tires are the same brand/size have same amount of thread and psi is good. what am i missing here? when the mechanic did the alignment he said he didn't see anything bent? any ideas?

 

go check the balance on your frame. i had an accord and the frame was bent. i couldnt get the alignment, but they gave me the estimate of the balance so i can go get my frame pulled and evened out but i didn't have the money.

 

you wont be able to see if the frame is bent, esp if its just a lil bit. find a shop that has a yellow jacket frame puller.

 

thanks for the advice, anybody else?

 

if the frame is bent, theres nothing you can really do besides get it pulled... but i would def. bring it to a few more shops to let em take a look...

 

woman+car=crash

 

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Ah thats not right, it wasnt even her fault.

 

not 2 bad

 

redid my alignment, car drives a bit better now. haven't taken it on the highway yet tho...

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1142761

 

so today i realize that the car doesn't feel better at all. today i swapped a tire that the mechanics put in front from the back wheels. it's the only tire that's different from the rest, it seems a bit wider in diameter. so i put it to the back, and swapped it with another tire. now both the fronts are the same. test drove it, and it pulls to the right, it feels like i didn't have an alignment done or anything.

i told the mechanic to look at the subframe, he says it looks fine. i'm running out of ideas here, what could it be guys?

 

What are the caster readings for your front wheels?


Modified by KSE at 11:15 AM 2/9/2005

 

 

Well, only thing I can see is your camber.

Cars will pull to the side with the more positive camber. 0.5 degrees difference doesnt seem like too much, But take into consideration, the difference only increases when you sit down in the driver seat, and then also take into consideration road crown (tilt on the road toward the right for water drainoff), and that may be why you're pulling to the right.

Ideally you want slightly more positive camber on the left than the right for just these reasons.

 

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Well, it's definetly not the roads. I drove it on the high way yesterday, pulls to the right. I also drove it on a 2 way, on the wrong side of the street so it would pull to the left... I held the wheel straight, and it still pulled to the right.

 

Go to a frame shop.

 

wow sorry to hear that its not fun when that stuff happends cant wait till people learn how to drive and stop cutting people off