Messed up struts? Springs?

[Calan]

1. we highly recommend spell check and/or upgrading your english. it reflects on everyone's opinion of who you are.
2. tire wear is a function of how much time the tire spends sliding as opposed to rolling, and proper orientation (alignment) to the road. Also the tire compound. is important; hard ( and silica based) tires last longer but offer little to no grip.
3. going off the road as described is most likely understeer; thus too fast for driver skill; not tire tread, unless it was wet pavement.
4. hitting 3-4 inch obsacle, and subsequent damage(?). I would look for a bent rim, tire bulges, broken spring, or subframe damage.

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I still can't make heads or tails out of what is actually wrong either. But, it sounds like there is some pretty extensive damage from what little I can understand; most likely broken shocks/mounts, broken end links, or maybe a bent control arm.

 

[FearlessNick]

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[jtmcinder]

I just went there to get a quote. It was free. So I took it up to tell me what was wrong. Lol

Well, can't you put the shock back in place and retighten the lower shock bracket? I wouldn't be driving around in a car that might suddenly sink to the ground, especially in the front. As I've said before, waaay to many Darwin-award nominees in DSMs as it is.

 

[FearlessNick]

Well, can't you put the shock back in place and retighten the lower shock bracket? I wouldn't be driving around in a car that might suddenly sink to the ground, especially in the front. As I've said before, waaay to many Darwin-award nominees in DSMs as it is.

I'm doing minimum driving. School is like half a mile. Then I go to my friends after. And he drives me around. Haha. And they probably didn't want to because they weren't getting paid.

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[Jeff99GS]

I've never heard of the perch snapping off an OE shock, but I'm ready for a first time. Much more like is that you bent a control arm or trashed the shock. I'm still not sure if the car is merely listing to one side or has nasty camber issues.

Yeah it can happen, cause it happened to me. I hit a HUGE chuck hole and it pushed the perch all the way down the shock...I pulled over expecting to see a flat tire and bent rim. The wheel was fine but the car looked slammed like it was sitting on the ground. I raised the car up and saw the busted shock.

I thought the perch was welded on but my cheapo KYB shocks were just press fit with some tabs. The impact was enough to jam it off.

I'm not saying that's for sure whats wrong with this guys car. I just thought i'd mention it.

 

[jtmcinder]

Cool. Thanks for the data-point.

 

[FearlessNick]

Well figured out everything.

For the back passenger side my wheel baring was pretty tore up. As well as my alignment was super off on both back tires.

For the front was a lot worse.
I had a bolt missing from my sway bar. My driver side inner tie rod had like 2" of play. Then where the collar is for the bottom of the strut. Well the metal tab broke off and my strut slipped through and ate up my CV boot.

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