Drove over a curb.

phil675

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So yesterday I was looking for a space in a cramped car park and didn't see a curb seperating spaces, went to drive into a space and went over it quite hard in a retarded fashion.

So now when I accelerate hard the left side feels pretty weird, like it's not flowing with the rest of the car. Could it just be knocked out of alignment? I was going to do my ARB links so should I do them then have it aligned? Or could it be more sinister?
 
Get alignment checked, likelihood is you just knocked it well out.

On another note, it really annoys me when people use curb instead of kerb.....they don't mean the same thing(Americans can be forgiven)!
 
phil675 said:
So yesterday I was looking for a space in a cramped car park and didn't see a curb seperating spaces, went to drive into a space and went over it quite hard in a retarded fashion.

So now when I accelerate hard the left side feels pretty weird, like it's not flowing with the rest of the car. Could it just be knocked out of alignment? I was going to do my ARB links so should I do them then have it aligned? Or could it be more sinister?
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what is the car?

you have probably bent something (track rod/lower wishbone/etc)

do not ignore. if it is any more than slightly out you will destroy the front tyres within a very short time!
 
Oh I had in my head that kerb was incorrect for some reason. It's a Mondeo, I'll get the wheel off st some point and have a look, not sure if I'll be able to tell if something is broken though.
 
I'd get it checked over make sure nothing has bent.

Last time I hit a curb this happened :eek:

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That alloy got chopped right up :O

Check the obvious alignment first the check the rest, I remember when I hit a curb in my Focus I bent a drop link.
 
Mines still not the same after hitting a kerb and blowing out the tyre, It's been to many garages including an accident repair center where they even put it on a jig.

Steering wheel isn't centered like it was before and the wheel I hit has eaten a new tyre within 6 months.
 
spookywillow said:
Mines still not the same after hitting a kerb and blowing out the tyre, It's been to many garages including an accident repair center where they even put it on a jig.

Steering wheel isn't centered like it was before and the wheel I hit has eaten a new tyre within 6 months.
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most wishbones are just pressed steel with the balljoint fixing on the end, this can bend by such a small amount unless you measure it properly aginst a decent part it is easily missed even by people who should know what they are looking at. a jig won't measure that part, it's for the chassis. had this on my last car, after 3 garage visits (one main dealer) it still wasn't right.

if the steering isn't centered then the last people who did the tracking/alignment didn't do it properly and only worked on the one side. get a second opinion/check.

the shock could be bent, the wishbone (my bet), steering arm, track rod end, ball join(s) and the wheel. go to a proper suspension specialist and they will find the issue in next to no time. crash repair places are mostly after insurance payout work, not trying to sort your ride out properly.

a simple diy test is to take the good wheel off and measure the angle of the ball join mounting to the main arm of it. then repeat on the broken side. i'd bet it's out of shape. it only needs to be a tiny bit out too.
 
It's highly unlikely you'd even be able to notice it visibly as it'd only be out of whack by about a thou.

We have this annoying problem in our 44 tonners. When a driver pulls into a layby or next to a kerb sometimes you rub the kerb and this knocks the tracking out.

It's £300 to have it re-aligned so obviously that won't get corrected very often if at all.
So we go and belt the opposite side against a kerb and equal it out !!

(sometimes that works..sometimes it doesn't)
 
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