FUCK...Anyone ever hit a curb in a EG?
 

Well its winter in canada, the first snowfall in my city was today, anyway I did not get my winters on yet because I was about to buy some this weekend, I ended up hitting a curb at 20 kph thats like 12mph so fairly slow, I was accelerating and turning on to a street and the front decided to slide forward and I hit a curb. the wheel is pushed back, the alligment is off...what I am wondering is if it bent the control arm or if its just aligment? I have no clue what it is now because its dark, but I know that the wheels are crooked like this:

Front Drivers side --> \\ || <-- Front Pass side.

I will be looking at it tomorrow, I just dont know what to expect, this is my first accident since I started driving 5 years ago.

What else could have been bent/broken? the car still drives but pulls hard to one side, the frame is probably ok seeing as it was only 12 mph.

Talk to me guys. this ---- has me worried to no end.

Re: FUCK...Anyone ever hit a curb in a EG?
 

don't worry too much about it. Looks like your steering tie rod got bent. you can buy a replacement at a junkyard for cheap and installing it is easy.

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My accord was hit like that one time, ended up needing a lower control arm and rear beam behind the engine. Since civics dont have beams it might have tweaked the lower control arm mounting point, tough to say how bad it REALLY is without seeing it but id bet its probably pretty bad

Re: FUCK...Anyone ever hit a curb in a EG?
 

tie rod is bent. any other part on ur steering or suspension on that side could be bent too. can't tell ya anything w/o lookin at it really

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I know more than the tie rod is bent, the wheel is pushed back a few inches, so it could be tie rod and control arm. sucks either way.

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It sucks but its not so bad. I've replaced 3 control arms in my day.
Just make sure you have a big hammer handy.

Also, get a good allignment when you've got it fixed up.

Re: FUCK...Anyone ever hit a curb in a EG?
 

i hit the ------ curb everytime i pull into my dam parking spot. pisses me off every time. i manage to do it once a day though. i just forget about it all the time. one of those things.

mine is just the bumper though. :P

Re: FUCK...Anyone ever hit a curb in a EG?
 

if the wheel is pushed back then it is absolutely more than a bent tie rod, it is at least the control arm and maybe a bent subframe

Re: FUCK...Anyone ever hit a curb in a EG?
 

hit a curb last night :-[

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subframe/ front nose needs pulled on a frame straitner, replace everthing bent then take it to a bodyshop then a alighnment shop. Have fun ;)

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I did a big one once ....

http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...ZkMzF5NTQx.jpg

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I deliver chinese food, and sometimes I have to go out into the country for deliveries where there are no street lights. Last week I was turning around in a culdesac when my passenger back corner jumped up and I was like "What the ---- did I hit?!" I clipped the steel band that is on the corner of a sewer drain, you know, the metal things above the drain on the curb. Well, the ------- thing knicked my wheel pretty good and tore a chunk out of my tire. It held air, since only the outside rubber was taken off, but I wasn't going to risk a blowout so I changed the tire in almost total darkness. Long story short, be careful, bad things happen, and if they happen when you're out there with no phone service, it can be bad. Also my passenger front tire was a little underinflated because we had a massive cold snap. Well, I took a left turn kinda hard and it rolled the tire. Freaky ----. ---- cars.

Re: FUCK...Anyone ever hit a curb in a EG?
 

has happened to me before in my rex, really really not fun.... tire got pushed back into the fender hitting a curb in the rain back in the day, really really not fun :3

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That was the dumbest thing you ever said...do you have any idea what 15-20kph is? Its a honda, not like the car weighs 3 tonnes.

Anyway turned out to be a tie rod and control arm, got a new arm and the wheel is sitting perfectly, I just have to go get it aligned because the new tie rod isnt sitting properly.

Re: FUCK...Anyone ever hit a curb in a EG?
 

I have seen a few bent at that speed if you hit it right. Post up your caster numbers/ setback after you get your alighnment, I hope there good but it wouldn't suprize me if its out. I also dont know the angle you hit the curb at, internet virtual car diagnostics can be tough as I am still trying to master it, btw I live in bc so I know what kph are ;)

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I ran over a curb at about ~60mph in my Civic 3 months after I bought it. Luckily the radiator support took most of the damage. It took out the radiator, A/C system, radiator support, front rims(they still held air), and something else was fucked up because I wasn't able to align it properly.

I was racing an Eclipse and decided it would be a good time to pass out. As I woke up I realized I was heading towards a house and not the road so I slammed on the brakes and slid over the curb and through the front yard of the house, missing a very large rock and the house. When the dust settled I wasn't sure if I was in the house or not. :l

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Re: FUCK...Anyone ever hit a curb in a EG?
 

i hit a curb burryed by snow in my ef like that and i bent my subframe probebly about 6 mph. my lower control arm was fine though. i dont know how an eg would take it. ive never owned one.

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I slid in to it at a 45* angle.

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hah.

Just fixing my friends car b/c of that.

Hit a 12" curb head on in the fog. His windows were all fogged up too.

Bent the radius rods, fucked subframe, bent the frame a little. This was a 91 civic though.

Can't really say anything based on the diagram. Just gonna have to look. Could be as simple as one piece or as major as needing frame work.

Re: FUCK...Anyone ever hit a curb in a EG?
 

your axel is probably busted.

Re: FUCK...Anyone ever hit a curb in a EG?
 

you fucked a good amount.

I'd same more than you'd expect. Jack it up and take pics.

Re: FUCK...Anyone ever hit a curb in a EG?
 

I smacked a curb, and ripped my lip off, I was pissed

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careful he'll tell you your stupid :1

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I ran over (all 4 wheel)a 3 inch bump on a off ramp going 90 and nothing happened to the car :1

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Just tonight I was cruising along at 40mph or so and I guess I wasn't paying close attention and my drivers side popped up onto the curb and there I was for good bit. When I got back it looked as if nothing had happened. Not a scratch at all. Sometimes I think I shouldn't have a license.

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hmm on my way home on my lunch break i almost hit a curb

was turning quickly right due to a now yellow light (slow person in front of me) and only a 30minute lunch. about halfway through the turn in 2nd gear + gas my tires broke loose over a patch of black ice. thanks to my cars decent handling and my knowing what to do when you lose control of your car, i think I probably got within inches of curbage. and it woulda been nasty

last time I lost control, I wasn't so lucky.. :l (totalled)