Had an accident, car not handling the same

Nightwish · Post by **Nightwish** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:43 pm

Hey guys,

regretably, I took a left corner a wee bit too fast in my manual GPX, and smacked solid curbs with all four wheels. Basically, i smacked my right front rim against a curb, which shot me to the left, and I hit the curb of a grass verge, and jumped up it and onto the grass (all 4 wheels would have hit the curb) before coming to a rest. I hit the curbs at somewhere in the vicinity of 80 k plus.

The 2 front rims were bent, but i got them repaired, and moved to the rear.

Driving around, I noticed that my car will pull to the left, and the steering is light when turning left.
When I turn right, the steering is heavy.

Also, it is even very pronounced when dirving straight, and accelerating.
The car feels uneven, and will pull to the left big time when hard accelerating. (even when holding the wheel straight, and the car is going straight, u can feel it wanting to pull to the right, and when u take your foot off the accelerator, you feel the car seem to snap back level)

My mechanic has taken a peek under the car, but cant see anything that might be damaged.
Can anyone give me a list of things that might cause the above symptoms,... especially the way it pulls more and more to the left the harder you accelerate.

Thanx in advance.

Post by **dstocks** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:18 pm

Have you had a wheel alignment done. That will almost certainly be out after an incident like that and would cause the symptoms you are getting.

Failing that, itll be something in the suspension that will be bent. Might be worth taking to a specialist. Theyll have a look for nothing (or should).

If you need parts, I have all the running gear for a GPX, so can get you anything you need to set it right. If youre after new parts, can probably point you in the right direction there too if you find out what is damaged.

mxysxy · Post by **mxysxy** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:19 pm

Nightwish wrote:The 2 front rims were bent, but i got them repaired, and moved to the rear.

How will this solve anything?
If the rims are bent, change them immediately.
How can you diagnoise any problem driving on bent rims, doesnt matter front or back

Post by **dstocks** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:23 pm

How can you diagnoise any problem driving on bent rims

He did say they were repaired.....

mxysxy · Post by **mxysxy** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:49 pm

dstocks wrote:
How can you diagnoise any problem driving on bent rims
He did say they were repaired.....

Sorry, I cant understand repairing bent rims.

Post by **Bennoz** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:57 pm

Bent rims can be repaired quite easily.

I'd say you have a bent steering arm.

In which case it would be impossible to align.

jonowong · Post by **jonowong** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:32 pm

fto617 · Post by **fto617** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:51 am

mate...get rid of the bend rims...
very dangerous if you are in emergency situation...
even though tis fixed, its not the same
i wouldnt risk my like on something under 1k....
maybe the smash repairer fixed it with 2nd hand cv joints and stuff...
therefore its still crap?

Post by **Bennoz** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:24 am

jonowong wrote:

Nightwish · Post by **Nightwish** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:48 am

thanx for the replies guys.

The rims, even though repaired, are still not 100 percent,... they never will be. Its just a temporary fix 'til I save the cash for a new set of wheels.

I will take the car back after easter and get an alignment done.
Maybe that will sort it out,... if not, at least I know its mechanical for sure.

Will take it to a suspension place and get them to give it a full checking over.

If It turns out I need a few parts, I'll kepp u posted.

Thanx

FTO AUSTRALIA

Had an accident, car not handling the same

Had an accident, car not handling the same

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