Well, I got in an accident a little while ago and my camber and toe was really bad in one wheel. I go and get an alignment and realized exatcly how bad it was.

Front Left Right
Camber -2.3 -2.1
Cross Camber -0.2
Toe 0.01 -0.02
Total Toe -0.01
Set back 0.28

Rear
Camber -5.4 -1.7
Toe 0.97 -0.10
Total Toe 0.87
Thrust angle 1.07

My rear left wheels is obviously really bad. Do I have a bent lower control arm or is it something else? How do the rest of my settings look? Can someone please shed some light on what is wrong? With that much neg. camber I'll be wearing out my Azenis pretty quick

 

Something in the rear left is bent for sure

Dustin

 

-5.4 camber = WHOA

ANYTHING can be bent back there. If it's the LCA, it won't cost much, but I'm pretty sure there are more things bent back there.

 

The rear LCA is pretty strong. The trailing arm usually bends first.

Dustin

 

Anything can be bent? Ahh, I was hoping it would be the LCA since it's only like 70 bucks. Is there anything in specific I should check out? Dustin said trailing arm, what other possibilities are there? I just want to know what to look for.

BTW with 5.4 degrees I finally feel like I fit in with those slammed teggies. I'm cool like them now too!

 

LCA and trailing arm are the only 2 things that bend.

When I decided to do this to my integra http://imglib.************/index.cgi?cmd=viewcat&id=25 , I bent both the LCA and trailing arm. The LCA was barely bent and the trailing arm was really destroyed.

BTW those pics are from 2 separate wrecks. I am referring to the wreck with the bent right side suspension... not the one with the "door ding" in the rear left quarter panel.

Dustin

 

Looks like you were right, went to my mechanic today and he said the same thing. Neither one looks bent so we really don't know which one to replace. Is there any way to tell either my looking at it or measuring it? If not I guess I have to replace both.

Also, it really doesn't look that hard to do, should I try to do it myself or just let him handle it?

 

It matters which part you get. If you can find a trailing arm with the hub together (used or something) it is really easy to swap it out yourself. If you just get the trailing arm, then you are going to have to swap over the hub and bearing and it is sort of a pain.

Yeah, the parts never "look" bent. They just are

Dustin