Post Winter/Pothole/CrosswalkSignBase Collision Alignment Questions (PICS)
#1
Post Winter/Pothole/CrosswalkSignBase Collision Alignment Questions (PICS)
Like a dummy I drove my car all through the winter, through to the end when the roads had become really bad.
1. I hit one pothole so hard with the right front wheel at 45 MPH or so, that it knocked my WIPERS on!
2. While understeering a corner in the snow I managed to bounce my right front wheel off the curb at very slow speed, (no appreciable change/problem immediately following)
3. I also managed to drive over the base of one of these dividers with the left front wheel at around 35 MPH, the one I hit is a lot higher than the one pictured:
I hit it so hard it hurt my wrist and nearly gave me a heart attack.
After all that I put my summer tires on and got an alignment:
EvoAlignment008 by wjamyers, on Flickr
I think this is not bad for a DD, but I cannot help but feel that something is wrong with my front end, that I hear more clunks than I used to and I think the fact that the right front camber is less negative than the left indicates that I may have damaged it by pushing the bottom in bouncing off that curb.
Am running GTWorx/Bilstein HD with Stock Wheels and 245/40ZR-17 Michelin Pilot Super Sport XL
Thoughts? Advice?
1. I hit one pothole so hard with the right front wheel at 45 MPH or so, that it knocked my WIPERS on!
2. While understeering a corner in the snow I managed to bounce my right front wheel off the curb at very slow speed, (no appreciable change/problem immediately following)
3. I also managed to drive over the base of one of these dividers with the left front wheel at around 35 MPH, the one I hit is a lot higher than the one pictured:
I hit it so hard it hurt my wrist and nearly gave me a heart attack.
After all that I put my summer tires on and got an alignment:
EvoAlignment008 by wjamyers, on Flickr
I think this is not bad for a DD, but I cannot help but feel that something is wrong with my front end, that I hear more clunks than I used to and I think the fact that the right front camber is less negative than the left indicates that I may have damaged it by pushing the bottom in bouncing off that curb.
Am running GTWorx/Bilstein HD with Stock Wheels and 245/40ZR-17 Michelin Pilot Super Sport XL
Thoughts? Advice?
Last edited by wjamyers; May 16, 2015 at 12:02 PM.
#3
For one, most people who do alignments at firestones are idiots. They only adjust until they see a green light come on saying its in their "spec".
You need to tell them to match the left and right camber. I would go for -1.5 both sides up front and -1.0 in the rear. Would also ask to dial out all toe to 0 all around. Obviously you cant adjust caster.
You need to tell them to match the left and right camber. I would go for -1.5 both sides up front and -1.0 in the rear. Would also ask to dial out all toe to 0 all around. Obviously you cant adjust caster.
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