I've got a bent rear axel on my 96 EX coupe, will a rear axel from a 95 EX 4 Door fit?

 

search the part number on online shop if it matches

 

Wasn't aware of a rear axle in an accord.

 

brought my car in to a shop to get the rear brakes changed and they said that I have a bent rear axel .. I havent check it out yet since my car is slammed as low as it gets but just checking with the ASE cert. guys on here since thats not my area, just a hobby. So if there is no rear axel on a accord .. what could be bent?

 

Accords are not RWD or AWD, no axle back there.

Either way I wouldn't suggest taking your car back to that shop. They (at least that mechanic) sound like morons or are trying to make you the moron and pay them for something that doesn't exist.

*edit*

It could be a lower control arm or trailing arm. But I doubt it.

 

Thanks, its what I thought too and was puzzled when they said rear axel. I'll have to jack the car up and check the control arms out.

 

Yeah, i was about to gave him **** but then I realised some of my friends in here calls the control arm axles and axles are driveshaft.

 

An axle is a central shaft for a rotating wheel or gear.

 

*thanks wikipeadia*

for general use that term works fine. but when speaking specifically about cars it can get confusing. the common understanding in the automotive community is that axles are rotating shafts that transmit power to the wheels. when you use the same word to describe a wheel that recieves no engine power... see where i'm going?

the more apropriate term in this instance would be hub or wheel bearing (...if we're still talking center of wheel rotation)

 

Yeah but you rarely hear of a bent wheel bearing or hub - how would a mechanic notice that from an alignment?

 

right, i could only imagine what a bent bearing would even look like...haha

in the OPs case, with the wording given i would have to guess either they meant to say bent control arm or bad wheel bearing. both could ruin an alignment. i would agree with what seems to be the consensus that it's most likely a bent control arm.

i was more so responding to the statement i quoted rather than the main topic. it looked like you had already cleared that up with your first responce.

 

Oh no it's gravy, I wasn't ratting on you at all.

I have an inkling doing the ghetto rotor replacement in the front where the bearing is torn apart could bend it hahah.

 

Current front wheel drive cars have "floating axles" on the front. meaning the weight of the car does not rest on the axle. It rests on the roller bearing. The same is with floating axles on 18 wheel tractors.

 

yeah, no prob

haha. i have seen a front LCA on a CB7 bent around like a candy cane from a wreck. i should have held on to that when i replaced it...