if you hit a curb does your alignment go off?

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01-02-2005, 07:34 PM

Scottsi

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if you hit a curb does your alignment go off?

i hit a curb and bent a rim so i switched the rims and everythin looked ok except it pulls right. what usually happens when you hit a curb?

01-02-2005, 07:37 PM

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Re:if you hit a curb does your alignment go off?

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i hit a curb and bent a rim so i switched the rims and everythin looked ok except it pulls right. what usually happens when you hit a curb?

I've never hit a curb that hard but I once made the mistake of taking my CRX down a logging road and I hit a rock hard enough to knock the alignment off a little bit so I imagine that a curb could do the same thing.

01-02-2005, 07:37 PM

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Re:if you hit a curb does your alignment go off?

Yes your alignment could have been knocked off. Hopefully you didn't bend any steering/suspension parts.

01-02-2005, 07:40 PM

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Re:if you hit a curb does your alignment go off?

I busted my rack and pinion

shitty expensive POS. But I was going pretty fast

01-02-2005, 07:42 PM

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Re:if you hit a curb does your alignment go off?

Haha, Speed racer over here. Holly how many cars have you owned?

01-02-2005, 07:45 PM

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Re:if you hit a curb does your alignment go off?

how fast were you going?

01-02-2005, 07:46 PM

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Re:if you hit a curb does your alignment go off?

do the alignment in your garage.

01-02-2005, 07:48 PM

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Re:if you hit a curb does your alignment go off?

dont have a garage that a car can fit in, and its raining out.

01-02-2005, 07:49 PM

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Re:if you hit a curb does your alignment go off?

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i hit a curb and bent a rim so i switched the rims and everything looked ok except it pulls right. what usually happens when you hit a curb?

If it pulls it can be:
1 a tire (preshure or radial tire pull)
2 caster problem
3 camber problem
2&3 are non adjustable (I am asuming its your civic) only toe, but toe wont make it pull just ware tires and crocked steering wheel.
If its 1 of your civic's you would be suprized how easy it is to bend the uni body