Tiptronic
01-25-2003, 11:43 PM
chalk another one up for the road. it just recently snowed, and the slippery road got me. anyway, i am coming home from the store, and i go to turn into my araprtment complex, and my car starts to slide. i turn the wheel in the direction of the slide, and when i thought i was good, i turned the wheel in the other direction. bad idea. anywaythe car continues to slide, and my front passenger wheel slams into the curb, and i do mean slammed. the rim itself needs to be replaced of course, but when i got to looking at the whole area, i noticed this:
if i stand in front of my car and line myself up with the driver side fender and wheel well, i can look straight down, and only see the tire when i get right to the ground. meaning the tire id flish with the wheel well. good
if i do the same thing on the passenger side, however, the wheel sticks out at least an inch all the way down. meaning it sticks outside of the wheel well. not good
i also noticed that when the car is sitting still and i have turned the steering wheel so that the tires are straight, the steering wheel itself is actually tilted to the left about a quarter of a turn.
in addition, i call myself driving around for a bit to see if anything was really wrong, and i could feel a weird vibration in the steering and from the passenger side. not good either.
so with that i have a few questions:
1. if my car slammed the curb on the passenger side, why does the wheel stick out on that side? i would think that if something were bent, that it would look recessed and not protruded.
2. whats the deal with the steering wheel? can i assume at a minimum that the align is shot? what else?
3. if something is bent or even broke behind the wheel, what are the parts called, and does anyone have pictures or know where i can get a visual of it.
if anyone has information, please help me out. this bad luck i've been having is starting to make me very irritable. this is one of those times where i really need you car gurus(pinoy, fish, manybrews, craig, rallifan, etc...)
this happened at night so the pics that i will put up arent that great
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid48/pb962d9c432c2d378f9268e8f8e397fdf/fcba7f9e.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid48/pb9a49fef0df5f7aad018a2062f647bbe/fcba7f98.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid48/p516140c430633034f70ae851f7a4fdde/fcba7f96.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid48/paad9c337c0ade79307f8212d2541b114/fcba7f94.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid48/pe6ca4fe8236d9d44c96929734f1b1490/fcba7f92.jpg
it looks worse in person. i will see better in the daylight
if i stand in front of my car and line myself up with the driver side fender and wheel well, i can look straight down, and only see the tire when i get right to the ground. meaning the tire id flish with the wheel well. good
if i do the same thing on the passenger side, however, the wheel sticks out at least an inch all the way down. meaning it sticks outside of the wheel well. not good
i also noticed that when the car is sitting still and i have turned the steering wheel so that the tires are straight, the steering wheel itself is actually tilted to the left about a quarter of a turn.
in addition, i call myself driving around for a bit to see if anything was really wrong, and i could feel a weird vibration in the steering and from the passenger side. not good either.
so with that i have a few questions:
1. if my car slammed the curb on the passenger side, why does the wheel stick out on that side? i would think that if something were bent, that it would look recessed and not protruded.
2. whats the deal with the steering wheel? can i assume at a minimum that the align is shot? what else?
3. if something is bent or even broke behind the wheel, what are the parts called, and does anyone have pictures or know where i can get a visual of it.
if anyone has information, please help me out. this bad luck i've been having is starting to make me very irritable. this is one of those times where i really need you car gurus(pinoy, fish, manybrews, craig, rallifan, etc...)
this happened at night so the pics that i will put up arent that great
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid48/pb962d9c432c2d378f9268e8f8e397fdf/fcba7f9e.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid48/pb9a49fef0df5f7aad018a2062f647bbe/fcba7f98.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid48/p516140c430633034f70ae851f7a4fdde/fcba7f96.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid48/paad9c337c0ade79307f8212d2541b114/fcba7f94.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid48/pe6ca4fe8236d9d44c96929734f1b1490/fcba7f92.jpg
it looks worse in person. i will see better in the daylight