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Enfield said:
so why not replaced the damaged back one and leave the two fronts? Obviously leaving the back wheel as it was, was causing a major risk to you and others, so would common sense not tell you to replace the backs instead of the fronts?
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GT3 said:
Obviously. if my car was in that state, it would be off the road and i would get a lift or the bus. Actually saying that, my volvo needs two new fronts, so its off the road, common sense says not to drive it
/edit - so if it was that bad, why not park it for a few weeks till you could afford the new tyres? this would have been much cheaper than carrying on driving it, then crashing it - as a result, you were even more financially out of pocket, because you had to fork out for another car, rather than paying for a set of tyres. Hell even budget tyres would have done untill you could have got some decent ones.
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Yep, as I said in my other post earlier on, that would be down to a seized arm on the beam. Had one at work with exactly the same problem. How it seized in that position I have no idea, but that was the problem. Replaced, perfect. 
How can sliding into a kerb induce negative camber? The impact must have been from the inside of the wheel to bend the axle in that way, and when you spin into a kerb then the impact will (almost without fail) be on the outside of the rim.Enfield said:
Of course if you are going fast enough both wheels will impact the kerb in some way shape or form but then we're talking enough speed to do a lot more than bend a rear arm.
Negative camber is usually caused by collapsed bearings between the shaft and the axle tube itself. Old age and wear and tear are common causes, but not normally impacts.
