imported_Rich@OptionJDM

anyways when i was driving today and it starting snowing really hard and fast. than pretty much the streets were covered with snow. i was driving my civic (with shitty all seasons from the factory) and than all of a civic my car started sliding to the right, i tried and counter steered, but my car slid towards the curb at like 15 km/h and hit it parallel. anyways i just checked out the car and everything looks alright except for a very minor dent in the hub cap and scratches on the tire. anyways i was wondering if it could cause anymore damages than i have noticed. could anyone enlightenment me?? alignment fucked up?

imported_Slvr-Bullet

I would go and get an alignment done. Better to be safe than sorry.

T-Shirt Ninja

I think you were going to slow for it to do any major damage, maybe if your were going like 40, I'd say your alignment would be off, but at 15 I wouldnt worry much. Thats my opinion.

imported_Rich@OptionJDM

anyways that's a relief, but im still gonna go to honda tommorow to get it checked out. i donno, i might have hit it at around 20 km/h, i donno, i was breaking and speedometer was reading inproperly. is there a chance that i would mess anything up besides the alignment? when my car hit, it bounced just a bit at impact.

90EFHB

imported_SW20 MR2

There's a chance you may have bent some of the suspension parts, but an alignment would reveal any problems.

imported_eric

check alignment, check cv shaft too, broke mine before coz of an incident like yours.

One Man Army

You MIGHT have f**ked up your wheel bearings if anything. I did the same thing myself awhile back, heard that whistling sound, and surely enough there where wheel bearings. Pain in the *** to change. Then again I hit the curb on a slight angle from being dead on (120 degrees), not from the side.

PULOVR

It doesn't take much......I should know.......it happened in my old car........was going about 5-10 km's.....gently bumped the curb with my back rim........never noticed/felt anything when driving.....that is......until a friend was behind me one day and said...."Do you know that your rear tire wobbles?". (I later found out a bent the axle slightly).


Get it checked. :working:

labatia

i hit it on friday too
hubcap dented

EK7_DriftMania

PULOVR: If your wheel wobbles then you would have felt it for sure, or maybe your friend saw some wet spots on the wheel, when it rolls it looks like it wobbles. If you cannot feel anything, then there should not be a problem. A slight 1 mm or less off anything you can defintely notice. Like un-balanced wheels will cause tramendous vibration.

But for sure, the alignment is off if you hit sideways, there is always something wrong with a sideway collision; especially, when the car bounced after the impact.

Do not take anything to Honda dealership, they will charge you $100 just to look at your car. Take it to some garage that specializes in Honda original parts and equipments, it will be a hell lot cheaper.
I have a 2000 civic, they told me, that I needed a radiator flush and charged me 100. Never went back, found myself a good garage. You should too.

bbarbulo

iTrader: (2)

Damn, I totally slammed the curb this morning on my way to work, and my tire went flat. Stupid me :cry:

GrEeNcIvIc

that sucks, you must have just wanted to

bbarbulo

iTrader: (2)

It was my winter beater, so I wasn't too concerned, but I got stuck in the snow bank too Not a good start to the week, but luckily I have motomaster tires, so Canadian Tire should take care of the flat (since there is roadhazzard warranty), and the susp seems to be okay... it was too slippery to be drifting this morning, though I take that exact corner pretty much every time the same way...tail end out But it made me wonder...what the hell am I doing, ya know? I mean, I depend on this car to get me through the winter with the minimal of cost so I can do more on the Civic and Samurai, and then I go do something like this Lesson learned

PULOVR

Trust me....I didn't feel it. Now...if it was on the front....defenently.

It never vibrated at ANY speed.....that's why I was like "UH?" when my friend told me. I even drove his car and followed him. I even saw the slight wabble.
Time from the impact to the time my friend told me.......around 7 months.

Could of been the snows....absorbing the wobble. LOL
but I also had the 15" rims on it as well. 195/50/15 tires on those rims.

The only thing I could think of was that the rim (steelie) was also bent as well. So when I switched to the "summers" it didn't wobble as much, due to the fact that my "summers" are as staight as an arrow. When I put the snows back on......maybe I put a straight rim to that "bent" axle.

Again......

I don't care anymore.....I have the civic now.