how is handling in cars with bent frames
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Rep Power: 263 how is handling in cars with bent frames
^^ post up. anyone have a car that was in a accident w/ a bent frame but is rebent? how does it handle differently than before?
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Rep Power: 271 What do you plan to do with the car? If done right, you won't even notice it. Two years ago, I hit a light pole at 85 mphs. The front was bent to the left by 6 inches. Thats a huge amount. The rear was bent back and up by the curb.
I still take it to the track. No major problems. First time at the track after the incident was nerve wrecking since the car mourns at high lateral g's.
My chassis has never been the same in dimension. I just compensate it with different heights with my coilovers. My chasiss has twisted due to track days.
I still take it to the track. No major problems. First time at the track after the incident was nerve wrecking since the car mourns at high lateral g's.
My chassis has never been the same in dimension. I just compensate it with different heights with my coilovers. My chasiss has twisted due to track days.
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^^ post up. anyone have a car that was in a accident w/ a bent frame but is rebent? how does it handle differently than before?
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Rep Power: 263 well just daily driving, no track. but i was just wondering if it tilts to a certain side or something like that afterwards b/c i just got into a accident.
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Rep Power: 787 someone hit me from the rear going 40+mph while i was stopped. did alot of frame damage but the shop was able to fix it enough that you could never tell unless you looked under there or in the trunk. it drives straight with good alignment and actually the only thing i had done was a wheel balance cause the weights got knocked off. alignment was fine. swaybar endlink broke too
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Rep Power: 394 I got into an accident when my car was only a month old in Sep. of 2001 and my frame was bend towards the driver's side by a little bit. I had a bodyshop fix my car, but I think all they did was an alignment because you can still tell that the frame is bent. That and it doesn't hold an aligment too well. Granted, I did the alignment myself, but still... Even though the wheels are nearly parrallel and at 90 degrees to the ground, my car drives to the left. I have to steer slightly to the right to compensate. It's wearing out my tires more than usual.
I used to have these Kumho tires that had a seriously high treadwear rating, so I think I didn't notice because of this. Now I had winter tires and I ate through those in one season. You should consider getting it fixed by a good body shop. They put the car on something called a frame rack and they straighten the frame out to the right dimentions. I have this one book on our Civics that tells you what dimentions should be where (I.E. what the ditance is betwean all sorts of points for a proper and symetrical frame).
Anyway, it's a pain for me. I'm wondering whether I simply can not do an alignment well enough myself, or whether it's the frame that's the problem. I think I'll take it in for an alignment anyway and see what it behaves like after that. If it's still FUBAR, then at least I know what the problem is.
I used to have these Kumho tires that had a seriously high treadwear rating, so I think I didn't notice because of this. Now I had winter tires and I ate through those in one season. You should consider getting it fixed by a good body shop. They put the car on something called a frame rack and they straighten the frame out to the right dimentions. I have this one book on our Civics that tells you what dimentions should be where (I.E. what the ditance is betwean all sorts of points for a proper and symetrical frame).
Anyway, it's a pain for me. I'm wondering whether I simply can not do an alignment well enough myself, or whether it's the frame that's the problem. I think I'll take it in for an alignment anyway and see what it behaves like after that. If it's still FUBAR, then at least I know what the problem is.
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