Here's the deal, I recently got into minor accident and only the back of the car got the impact. Anyhow, The rear driver's side wheel seems to have taken a bit of impact so now it slighty sticks out more than the passengers side. It's drivin' me up the wall.
oh! and I keep hearing like a compression-type noise comin from the back suspension. any ideas what it could be?

 

anyone?

 

If you wacked your rear wheel only then you need to replace the rim and the rear hub assembly and im willing to bet at leaste the ball joint if not a few bushings as well.

 

Check your Knuckle, and all 4 control arms. I smacked my rear wheel on a curb. Went through and replaced 3 of the 4 control arms thinking they were the problem when they were not. Finally had Les schwab just take a gamble and replace the knuckle and shabammmm it was fixed. Trouble with all those control arms is there curved so Its very hard to tell what is bent. I used a micrometer and went back and forth about 300 times driver to passenger and measure EVERYTHING!!! It sucked.....

Good luck man.

 

thanks I'll check the knuckle, how much is it to replace that?

 

posted up some pics. hope I can get my car back that way it was.

 

anyone else wanna chime in and help me. Posted some pics so you guys can see what' I'm talking about. Once again, thanks for the feedback.

 

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The impact could have been strong enough to knock your alignment out of wack. I once had an incident with a curb.... ended up having the entire rear axel replaced. Good luck!

 

I would recommend to start with a lifetime tire alginment from fireston, then replacing most of the parts such as knuckle and control arms till the problem is fixed

 

I got an alignment but it still sits the same.

Here's my alignment specs.

is there anything wrong with my alignment? please help guys.

 

c'mon guys, need some help here. I don't want my z1 star specs to go to waste.

 

can someone please look at the picture and alignment graph and tell me what's goin' on, I need to get this resolved asap. My poor car.

 

It might not be the wheel at all and be the frame/unibody got moved a bit.

need more details of the accident and where the car was hit or how it was damaged to begin with.

Only way to really know, is you if you know a body shop that will set up their machine that aligns certain points on the car with pins. I forgot the name of the machine or jig i should say.

Athanasios

 

only the back got hit, they pretty much built the whole back piece. The wheel didn't receive all the impact, might've just gotten nicked. did you check out my alignment graph? should I be worrying about something? sorry but I don't know much when it comes to this sort of stuff. thanks for replying.