My friend was driving my accord the other night and ran it into a cement barrier at 75mph. Mostly the driver side tire hit the barrier while turned out to the left (only the driver's side of the car hit, the back hubcap is broken and rim a little bent, but no damage beyond that, all the damage appears to be to the tire/rim and suspension for the front driver's wheel... and cosmetic stuff).
I took it to a couple of shops to get estimates and not all of them agreed on what needed to be replaced. All four agreed the strut was bent. Two of them said the lower control arm was bent. These first two items I have confirmed visually. One shop suggested replacing the sway bar endlink which after jacking up the car I found the endlink to be completely broken off. The two parts that are in question are the strut fork and the trailing arm. The strut fork appears to look the same as its counter part on the passenger side, but the trailing arm simply looks like a different part than the passenger side (the driver side is round while the passenger side is round then flattens out, then goes round again).

Anyway, given the accident and the force with which it happened, I was wondering beyond the strut, lower control arm, and endlink what might have been affected? I guess I'm just not 100% confident in my visual inspection.

 

if you bent parts, you shocked the heck out of the wheel bearing and may have damaged the CV joint. since you can't adjust camber without special ball joints, you should replace the entire left suspension including the radius rod. If you can find a good used setup, it shouldn't cost much. I would also recommend replacing the axle. if you are smart about removal, you can leave some of the parts bolted together when removing them, such as the upper arm and spindle. I would replace the lower ball joint even on a used spindle while you have it off. get an alignment afterwards. once you get all the new parts on, you can then tell if your sway bar got bent also by seeing if it matches up to the lower arm correctly.

 

First of all, you gave a descent description of the accident and what you believe that is damaged, but you need to add pictures, not just one or 2, but a few pictures of the car and the damage so that we can point out what's likely to be in need of replacement.
Post pics and then we can help.

 

Let's not give a list of parts to the guy just yet, we haven't seen s*** yet...

 

Agreed. sgraham01 gave a pretty good parts list, but the OP may not even need most of it.

Pics WILL be required to give you an accurate opinion.

 

Here's a few. I am adding more but it is taking forever to attach them

 

These are the two trailing arms (first is driver's side, second is passenger side). I can't do too many other comparisons right now with the passenger side because we are in the process of replacing the strut...

 

well... this is the last image that successfully loaded. So i will post this until I can get the others to load

 

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