Women and weather = broken car

[wkdkris]

inch of snow and a woman in front!

So i had to slam on, ABS didnt bother as per, even though its bugged me for months EVERYTIME i braked....and i decided though she p1ss3d me off, id hit the curb and not her!!
Result!:

drivers wheel shunted into the back of the wheel arch and steering is all to hell. I drove it about 400 yards and felt like the wheel was going to fall off. car was pulling hard to left, then hard to right, hard to left etc....

the bottom wishbone is bent
steering ball joint arm bit all looks bent and its brand new!
rod from bottom to the top ball joint...bent(was brand new)
strut appears to be bent!
hubs seems to be all miss shaped(was brand new)
possibly f*kked the sub frame where bottom arm/joint connects

hoping it hasnt damaged drive shaft and CV's

is this guna be easy to repair, as in, bolt everything regarding that wheel off..... replace, bolt on, fixed!????

[lee303]

sounds like quite a whack to do that much damage, chassis could have moved too, you’ll soon tell when you replace all the bits

[wkdkris]

urghhhhh dont say that

[lee303]

well thats what the evidence suggests, how fast were you going?

[wkdkris]

can a normal mot place do the checks to see its once ive repaired it, its safe to drive(chassis). it does have a zLEH in. dont wana die

[wkdkris]

about.... 25-30

[lee303]

you won’t die, amazed you did that much damage at that speed, mind you snow = no slowing before impact, lesson learnt huh, as for the mot, they will be able to see if the chassis has moved if its that bad, but i would just fit the bits then go get the geometry/wheel alignment done, any problem will soon show up

[wkdkris]

okay cheers pal

and yep snow no slowing! it was defo 25-30 still on impact. to dead 0

[ccm640]

if it was me mate i would bolts all new parts on regarding the side that had impact then just take it to you local garrage that does lazer line tracking as there machine would pick up on anything out of alignment i.e 1 wheel a couple of mill back from the other ect ect. tbh i cant see it doing more dammage than bottom arm/balljoints and track rod end. i hit a patch of black ice a few years back in an old escort doing about 40 and hit the curb and the front wheel was stuck in the top of the front wing all that done was the bottom arm.

[Fastra mk2]

Did the same to my corsa few years ago on a roundabout replaced all the damaged parts AND got it jigged, the bonnet, bumper tracking and steering was never the same, I ended up scrapping it you should of shunted her, lol.

[wkdkris]

far from fixed but it drives okay ish... aka it reversed off the drive...up thr street n parked for tomorrows trip to the laser tracking place....anti roll and drop link getting done there too so mangled couldnt get bits off and its to cold to faff on. brrrrr