itr85

Hi guys,

My wife had a slight off 2 weeks ago on a wet road.. She spun the car on a round about and hit a gutter with the right rear..

The car was towed and taken away for insurance repairs.. it sustained a cracked wheel ( lucky my AP1 16s where on it) and a bent lower control arm.

I got it back today and put my 17's back on, but noticed something whilst putting them on.

The gap from the tyre to the guard is different from the drivers side to the passengers.

What else could be bent??? the car drives fine and straight...

Maybe a strut, or upper control arm????

I have attched some pics to show you the difference

Nickamsweet

has it been geo'd back to whichever specs you want?? (UK)

fatjoe10

Has the upper control arm been checked? there's a good chance it may have been bent as well....

JDR159

Two things to check:
1. With the repair shop to see if they put the car on a frame machine to check for frame damage. Probably they didn't but you'll need this info.
2. Get the alignment 'after' data to see where you're sitting vs the spec's you wanted.

If the frame is square (not bent) which is what #1 would confirm, and your alignment is good, then you probably have some panel misalignment which the repair shop should fix.

nickp

id recheck all your control arms AND control arm mounts just cause the control arm was bent dosent mean the mounting locations wasent gl with all that id be under their with a tape measure doing a ruff square up just for a quick refrence and check your wheel base center of wheel to center of wheel front to back if its trully that bad it should have a bad pull gl with all that hope you get it all straigh