G/F hit a curb. Need you opinion techies!!
 

Alright, well my gf was driving her 93 Ford Tempo and ive told her a thousand times to drive slow in the snow. Well appeaantly and she was turning into the parking lot she slid right into the curb with her wheel turned. So we put the spare on, filled up her oem wheel with air in my car, it held air, put the oem one back on, lost the air (rim=bent), and when the car is standing still the tire is leaning like this / (but not that steep) and it is the front pass. wheel, so the bottom of the wheel is more inside the fender than the top of it.

Anyways, her dad drove it around in the parking lot and when he turned left I thought the wheel was going to pop off, so I told him to come back and park, then as he was coming back the wheels looked like this \ / (if you are looking at the front,and the car is coming towards you) so both were bent in. Then when he stopped the tire that didnt hit the curb (driver front) straightended out. Also, it looks like the driveshaft is bent and it rubbing against a nut.

Any help or ideas would be much appreciated. I imagine w/ towing and fixing its going to be a lot, but the car only has like 50k miles on it. Maybe bent driveshaft and a bad bearing?

RE: G/F hit a curb. Need you opinion techies!!
 

check the bushings...

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How about you get a new rim and a front end alignment and tell the alignment shop what happened so they know exactly what to look for. lol @ bushings

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I'd probably take it to an alignment shop as well but first I'd look at the lower control arm and see if it's bent/wrinkled/bowed up. My friend hit a curb in his nissan versa a month or so ago and wound up spending over $2000.00 on parts/labor to get it repaired, the shop had to replace just about everything for safety reasons on the one side.

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that's what i meant for bushings, how are they called then?

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I've always refered to it as the lower control arm, or lower A arm. I'm not 100% certain if this is the proper terminology but it's the terminology that I use *L*

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my bestfriend crashed his eclipse turbo against a tree (wet road, big hole on road, tried to avoid it and BOOM!) and his wheel was like /. he changed the bushings (the control arm that hold the tire and what not in place)... that's why i said the bushings, i could have the terminology wrong...

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Thanks guys, Ill have to check it out. I know its been towed, so I guess we'll see what the shop says. haha good thing her fam. is paying for it! lol

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You're lucky you're not married or it'd come out of your pocket...*L*

Here's a bushing

http://images.google.com/images?clie...ages&gbv=2

Here's a lower control arm

http://images.google.com/images?gbv=...=Search+Images

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oh, ok... now i've got it... it's that in PR they call the whole thing a bushing, and since i grew u here, i learned the wrong way to call stuff...(crap)
thanxs a lot SN

RE: G/F hit a curb. Need you opinion techies!!
 

It's funny how little terminology things change from area to area.... the whole soda vs. pop debate all over again *L*

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hahaha true... good thing there's ppl like u who help on that matter! thnx again...

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its soda!

anyone by chance know what a bubbler is?

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one of those little electric bubble guns that blows bubbles?

http://images.google.com/images?clie...ages&gbv=2

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incredibly awesome, but no. anyone else?

and yea, check the control arm. my friend hit the curb in his chevy lumina and smashed up both rims and bent the steering linkage i think. $1100 total repair bill.

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Thanks for all the advice. Ill let you know what her family ends up doing.


and it is pop.

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i dont know, im pretty sure its soda....

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It is a device made out ofglass or plastic with a reservoir in the bottom and a slide out bowl shaped apparatus usually made of metal. It is used for smoking "sweet cheeba."

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hahaha ive gotten that before, but no.
its something you use almost every day.

and again, its NOT a bong. or hookah. or other device for using illicit substances.

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And that threw me off so much I forgot why I checked this out again.

Her car is getting checked out tomorrow. lol

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Well in either case (it IS pop!) I prefer my POP to be uncarbonated. mmmmm. Nothing like flat Sierra Mist POP!


It have GERD and Barretts esophogaus...yeah, got it when I was 16 and like 99%of all the people it affects they are like 40yrs old+. My gastro...ok stomach doctor was amazed. So when I drink POP! it makes me feel like crap unless its flat. Not to mention it hurts like a mofo going down. In the past 3 years I have probably had 1/2-1 liter of pop. But lemme tell ya...quitting cold turkey will give you some pretty ouchy headaches.

I must tell you my proud manly moment. Last year after waking up from my endoscopy (camera down your stomach n such) I went to a friends house, played HALO 2, TP'd and didnt sleep! haha Amazing, but I was a crabby zombie the next day.

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ouch! no more SODA? that sucks.

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LOL... I grew up in Milwaukee, so I know it's a drinking fountain.

Do YOU know WHY it's called that??

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back in the day, like waaaay back in day, the water used to come straight up, and would "bubble" out.
milwaukee has a lot of weird sayings like that.
Like "time machine", but i think more people know that.

every once and awile i accidentally like mention a "bubbler" with non-wisconsinites, and people look at me like im crazy. its hilarious.

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Lucky for her family it's a 93 Probe shouldn't be too bad in repairs.. but if it's too high she may be getting a new car instead lol...

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Yeah, but it has under 50k miles though too. So that could help So far its up to about $900. Ouch.

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Check the frame as well. If this wasn't mentioned as well.My friend at school did something similar to this and bent the entire frame of his truck and it was considered totalled so he ended up getting a new truck.

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Whenever i drink a soda/pop, i get tons of ice inside and shake it to get it flat!

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Dr Pepper goes flat fairly quickly...

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Yeah, there were still a couple of those when I was a kid.

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thats awesome. why are they all sideways now?
that makes too big an opening for pranksters to turn it facing out so when you press the button it sprays you....

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chk control arms upper and lowers, also another thing that i have seen crumble ( creases) is the rear cross member .. have a look at the back side of it ..

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Thanks for all the advice for things to watch out for. Ill be sure to tell them.