This past friday, it was snowing and since my evo is my only car i had to drive it to work. Snow + stock advans = me hitting the curb . (I know I am an idiot for driving in the snow with the stock tires, but what can I do? I have to get to work)

The front passenger side wheel hit the curb, and the wheel's alignment is off. I took a picture of it.

Today I had the car towed to the dealer, and they're looking at the car right now. However when i was there, they started saying that repairs could be over $1000 and that I should call my insurance. Does anyone have advice they could give me? Thank you.


The dealer called back with a quote, they're saying that the following parts have to be replaced: Inner and outer tie rod, right front hub, knuckle, axle nut, cotter pin, and tie rod band. The parts alone was quoted at $725.21, and they're charging me 6.6 hours of labor at $115 an hour. The total quote is $1742.52 with alignment, $1612.22 without tax included. I feel like the dealer is trying to screw me to make a quick buck

 

Um, call the insurance company?

Honestly not much you can do at this point, you need your stuff fixed. Just learn a lesson from this and get snow tires for the snow. I've been in a similar situation but luckily I didn't damage anything.

Good luck!

 

Insurance

 

The advice had already been given... Call your insurance.

 

Ouch! Sorry man. Hope they could fix it correctly.

 

You live on Long Island and your only car has no snow tires??? BUY-SNOW-TIRES!

 

Hopefully just a new inner tie rod should fix it up. That will cost much less then 1000$.

 

X8^^^^ Get snow tires for next season. Other constructive advice would be if repairs exceed your deductible by a lot, then make a claim. If only over a bit, like say $600 and your deductible is $500 then just pay for the repairs and not have a claim in the system.

 

Ouch, that steering rod should not look like that. One other piece of advice is not to have your awd car towed by lifting either front or back; always use a flat-bed truck or you might also be looking at a new transfer case.

 

1st purchase...Evo X
2nd purchase...snow tires
Tough way to learn your lesson man...sorry

I ended up hitting the curb couple weeks ago (me being stupid during a snow fall)
Alignment went, took the car to the dealer and it was very minor...just a bent rim... i was lucky

I would get a second opinion from a different shop.
If it will cost you over 1000.00 dollars than maybe insurance is your answer depending on what your deductible is.

Good luck

 

Well we don't know what else is potentially damaged. The pics can only say so much.

 

I can't think of any way for a hit like that to damage the knuckle while not damaging either the lower LCA or shock. Add in the rate of $115/hr (which is damned high) and you should go elsewhere. If you didn't bent or break the wheel, odds are it's just the outer tie-rod.

Oh, and the mere suggestion that one wouldn't get an alignment when a tie-rod is replaced tells me (again) that they are incompetent or evil or both.

No more posts about snowtires, please. The point has been made.

 

Don't call the ins company.. your rate will go up and it'll show up on carfax later on when you try and sell the car.
I suggest taking it somewhere else to have it fixed, it looks like the only issue is the tie rod.. could be wrong i'd have to look at it.
But yeah, don't call the insurance company, they'll just rape you in the future.

 

Ouch, ****ty luck

 

I don't know, that sounds pretty fair estimate. The shop rate up here is $140/hr. If you hit the curb at any speed, it's going to need both tie rods (inner/outer). Hopefully your steering rack is ok.

At any decent speed your wheel bearing is going to get messed up. Since they are non-serviceable, you need a new hub. Hopefully your wheel is ok, but it's probably mashed.

The good thing is, if you wanted to save labour all of those parts are super easy to change (well, except the inner tie rod, it's sometimes a pain).

/live up here in Canada and I've curb surfed my share of cars in my life. Even with winters. But our winters are about 134342x more severe than yours