Slid into a Curb :(

[Fordlover96]

Long time no speak guys. Tonight on the way home from school, we had a pretty good snow storm. As I rounded a corner into my neighborhood, I hit a patch of ice, and slid my driver front wheel straight into a curb. I was doing about 10 miles per hour. I didn't even have time to straighten the wheel out and hit the curb dead on, like I should have. The wheel was turned to the extreme right. The last 2 minutes to my house, I noticed my wheel pulled to one side. Like to make my car go straight I had to hold the wheel a good 1/8-1/4 turn to the left. I'm gonna take the car to a family friend's shop tomorrow. But before I go, do you guys have any idea what it might be? I'm hoping some new tie rods, which I already had laying around, and an alignment will fix my SHO. I can only hope! Stay safe you guys!

P.S. the rim got some pretty good road-rash, but that is the least of my worries. Lol.

 

[SHO Continental]

Possibilities: bent inner tie rod, bent STRUT, bent subframe, destroyed strut rod bushings, destroyed subframe bushings. Depends how hard you hit it...


From when my brother went over a curb, an extreme example.

 

[luigisho]

There are wheel repair places around that can buff and/or fill and paint wheels that aren't structurally damaged if you want to address it at some point.

 

[Fordlover96]

@SHO Continental HOLY CRAP. That's some serious damage. Damn. But, I'll be sure to report back what they say about mine. I'll probably have them put on my new tierods anyway, since I have them and it will probably get an alignment anyway.

@luigisho Yeah. I'll probably wait till the summer and maybe attempt the fix myself. I worked in a body shop one summer and helped a couple times repair a rim. Sand the rough spots. Body filler. Sand body filler flush with rest of rim. Paint (or plastidip like I really wanna do). If they aren't too expensive I might just have someone do it. Lol. But damn, that snow last night. I almost got hit like twice. Sweet Jesus, it was bad. I had to head home around 8 o'clock.



Here it is

 

[luigisho]

You don't have the right tread for this stuff. Most people here don't. My car doesn't either, but I got a truck with good tread.

 

[SHO Continental]

@SHO Continental HOLY CRAP. That's some serious damage.

In that case the wheel and tire were fine after having the tire remounted. It was just the 'simple' matter of replacing the subframe (with control arms, strut rods etc), motor mounts, subframe bushings, one inner tie-rod, and a brake line that got nicked.

 

[Fordlover96]

@luigisho You're absolutely right. I had no choice though. I was stuck at TCC and had to drive home. I usually takes me 20 minutes to get home. Nope. Not that time. More like an hour. I just wish I was driving the Grand Cherokee my family has. Haha

@SHO Continental Simple? I guess everything is relative

After everything, all the car needed was an alignment. I've gave them the tierods to install if it needed it and they didn't even need to do that. Just an alignment. Nothing bent or broken, apparently. Lol. 10o bucks and out the door. THANK GOD.

 

[luigisho]

That's lucky. Good news. Get some cheap winter tread tires and slap them on for 2 months a year. Good insurance vs repair real damage. Doesn't take much for insurance to total these cars at this point.