Alright, well heres the deal. Slippery roads, a street light not lit up, and me driving along. SO i was doin around 50 maybe 40 MPH and there was a streetlight out, well i usually take this turn pretty fast, but this time, my car decided it wanted to slip and just keep goin straight.. so i slammed on the brakes.. and then like tapped them, and slowed down a bit, but still made it into the ditch. Well, i broke my front bumper body kit (Fiberglass Mugen Replica), but the good news is, the bumper was already messedup from a towing incident.. but, my question is.. could anything else be messedup.. like frame.. anythin.. the bumper dosent actually seem too bad, and i only hit the ditch prolly doin 20.. or so.. All the lights work, etc.. no hood damage, but could there be any other damage if there was no damage on the outside? I drove it home, drove fine.

 

Have a bodyshop check the frame and get an alignment done. That'll tell you if you bent/broke any suspension pieces.

 

werd. so if i pay like an oil change place to rotate tires/alignment/oil change and what not, i can also just ask them to see if there is anything with the frame, etc?

 

Just open the hood and check to see if there is anything wrong with the body there, then jack the car up and look underneath too see if there is anything wrong. Frequently, a car with a bent body (hondas are unibody) is easy to spot. Look for stuff like dents in the floor and rockers and doors that don't close properly. While you have it jacked up, look at the suspension, if anything is badly bent it should be pretty obvious.

 

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With that said you should also note that some things are not easy to see. Suspension parts that are bent a few mm you cant really see but will show up on an alignment, same as the frame. Get under there and look for anything obvious. Take it to get an alignment and see what you get, of anything is way off then take it to a collision shop or wherever, theres a few around here that will do a frame inspection for free.