One side rear tire sticking out further

[Trent205]

so I just put on new rims and tires, butnuoon closer inspection I can see that the rear passenger side wheel is sticking out further than the opposite side.... or I suppose maybe the drivers side is perhaps pushed in more cause the offset on my rims actually pushed out the fronts as well. I’ve been trying to go over why or how is this occurred but come up with nothing?!?!?!?

Lol the buddy of mine who installed the tires says maybe someone hit a curb in the car and pushed it over???

Is this possible ? Or is the something more sinister going on here?

Also I should mention that there is some kind of clunking noise coming from the car whenever i accelerate or brake. I’m thinking this has to do with the struts, could the two be related?

Thanks for any help you guys can provide

Cheers

 

[dgarnett02]

so I just put on new rims and tires, butnuoon closer inspection I can see that the rear passenger side wheel is sticking out further than the opposite side.... or I suppose maybe the drivers side is perhaps pushed in more cause the offset on my rims actually pushed out the fronts as well. I’ve been trying to go over why or how is this occurred but come up with nothing?!?!?!?

Lol the buddy of mine who installed the tires says maybe someone hit a curb in the car and pushed it over???

Is this possible ? Or is the something more sinister going on here?

Also I should mention that there is some kind of clunking noise coming from the car whenever i accelerate or brake. I’m thinking this has to do with the struts, could the two be related?

Thanks for any help you guys can provide

Cheers

the clunking noise "sounds" like a bad U-joint to me, also could be a control arm that wasn't torqued down properly.

 

[Trent205]

the clunking noise "sounds" like a bad U-joint to me, also could be a control arm that wasn't torqued down properly.

Being as my car is a FWD, does it even have a U-joint? Perhaps could be the CV joint?

 

[C'LO]

Or something loose In the front end? Give her a shake

 

[dgarnett02]

Being as my car is a FWD, does it even have a U-joint? Perhaps could be the CV joint?

Definitely, I don’t even think about that.

 

[Trent205]

Or something loose In the front end? Give her a shake

That was the first thing I did but I’ll get t figured out today as I’ll be putting her up on jack stands and pulling the wheel off to get a closer look at what it might be...

 

[dgarnett02]

That was the first thing I did but I’ll get t figured out today as I’ll be putting her up on jack stands and pulling the wheel off to get a closer look at what it might be...

Let us know what you come up with, Good luck!

 

[Trent205]

Turns out it’s the control arm bushings.... so I’ll just replace the arms on both sides. Make it easy peasy