dopesilverstone

so i was driving home from work today and i got into a little fender bender basically i was driving some lady in a mini van was in front of me she cam in to a stop in the road to her left a street with houses to her left a day care so as im coming up on her shes sitting still stopped no blinkers nothing so i begin to stop when im maybe 50 ft or so on her then i decide wtf is she doing and decide to go around her and when i do she makes the right into the day care when she does im on her right i slam my brakes slide into her back wheel/bumper causing damage to my ds fender and pushing me into the curb.....ps front wheel isnt sitting straight if your looking at the car from the front the wheel looks as if the toe is off with the front sitting past the fender more the back of the wheel....and when i drive it pulls to the right hecka hard i changed the wheel to rule out a bent rim and it still does it, so my question could a impact mess up the toe setting or could something look bent i have it jacked up taken apart nothing looks bent buy idk............

ahrmike

If you can SEE alignment difference, most likely you bent something. Take it to a good shop so they can tell you what it is that bent..

J0eys2k

Only way to really find out is to take it to a shop. It'll solve all the headache and fustration from trying to fix it urself. Trust me, when I ran into a crub I sat looking at my fenders for hours trying to find out what I bent.

luder_5555

sounds like a bent tie rod...

dopesilverstone

ok i now have the tie rod adjusted all the way it got the wheel straighter but still off so something is bent for sure , so if i wanted to replace it should i just replace the inner and outer tie rod to be safe.

dopesilverstone

does anybody have a diagram or link to one for the proper way to remove the entire tie rod

2poor2mod

just take it to a shop, if you dont know how to remove an inner tie rod then you probably shouldnt be messing with the alingment and all of your steering components.

dopesilverstone

i know how i just have never done it on my s just wanted to have the diagram in case theres anything special, i got the diagram and the tie rod removed it doesnt look to bent at all, so now im stuck again idk whats wrong

2poor2mod

Take it to a shop and have someone who knows what they are doing look at it. You apparently are not qualified to do the job

CKit

Even if you could "see" what was bent, you're still going to have to realign the car anyway.

Take it in. Sometimes the A-arm gets twisted and all you see is a little rust knocked off at the flex point.