So my 2006 evo was recently in an accident. It was repaired by lexus of pembroke pines. The accident was minor with damage to the passenger front.

My right wheel also took some of the hit and my alignment was tweaked. I expressed to the service rep that this car gets driven at very high speeds and I wanted the wheel to be taken off and everything inspected ( hub, strut, tie rods etc.)

He tells me " Well we're gonna put it on the alignment rack and if everything checks it will be good to go"

To make a long story short I got the car back and the car was still pulling to the right, I even took it to Mitsubishi and they couldn't find anything!!

If any of you guru's have any idea as to what it may be please chime in. Thanks in advance, by the way I'm in the south florida area if that helps with suggestions on where to take it.

Updates on post 19 and 20

 

How did you crash exactly? Also what components did they replace?

 

My car was parked with my wheels turned out to the right ( showin off my fresh dirrezas) and I don't know If some came into the spot to quickly or if they were leaving and cut the wheel too soon.

They didn't replace anything, The fender had minor damage and was fixed didn't even need to be painted.

 

Check the rotors.... when I had my last little expensive mishap, I had a lot of pull to the right and it turned out to be an extremely worn (but only slightly damaged) passenger side brake rotor. The damage was so slight, the repair shop didn't even catch it. I swapped that baby out and it's tracking straight. Still not sure how it got damaged...

 

alignment would be the first guess, but it would be unlikely they would lie to you after they had already put it on the rack. next spot i would check would be the tie rods to see if there bent at all then the hub assembly.

visual inspection is good. check for any loose bolts or play in the wheel bearings etc. gl with you resolution

 

It's definately not the alignment, it's been aligned at two different places and it still pulls. I'm also quite dissapointed because with my previous alignment I would get some really nice power on oversteer that is now GONE!

I am pretty upset and I really don't wanna go to another dealership but I do not know of any alignment/suspension specialty shops around me such as robispec or Turn in Concepts.

 

Bump no good shops in my area?

 

+1 got the same problem with my other Car. for some reason I replace the rotor. and fix the problem of pulling to the right.

 

Have you had somebody check if the wheel isn´t bent? I´ve had a similar problem with a Golf GTI I had. The wheel hub was slightly bent and the car handled horrible. I only found out the wheel was the problem when I sold the entire set and the guy had a shop check and repaint them.

 

Do you have a print out of the alignment? PM me or see if somehow you can get me the print out and I'll take a look at it

 

try to rotate the tires front to back maybe one of them is bent.

 

Was the hit in the direction toward the front or the rear of your vehicle?

 

This is interesting I might try this.

If the wheel is bent should it be visual?

Unfortunately I do not have the printout

If the proble is this simple that would be great. I really wanna make sure that it's not anything serious like hub, tie rod or even steering rack.
Thank you to everyone that is posted. Your responses are greatly appreciated I will keep this thread updated, I just need to figure where I'm gonna take the car.

 

First thing you should do is swap ur wheels on the front. left to right... right to left... IF it starts pulling in the opposite direction then it's the tire or wheel. If not then it's something with the suspension. If the car slammed ur tire then it's possible they weakened the sidewall and it causes it not to drive straight. So then if you change it to other side it will pull the other way. At least this excercise will help you narrow down the cause

 

I am on stock gsr suspension, no gangsta slammin here, as for tires I am on Direzzas, you mention the sidewall getting weakened, oh man there are just so many things that it could be. It is quite frustrating that lexus nor the mitsu dealership could figure out.

I think I'm gonna start by swapping tires, Then move on to the rotor and so on. My only issue is that I would like to take it to shop because I had made an insurance claim, and like a good neighbor state farm told me I could take the car anywhere and they would supplement it