so tonight i was on my way home from work, and while taking a sharp turn i ended up hitting a corner with my right rear tire, i stop to check it out and everything seemed ok. after getting back in the car and driving off i notice that the car was really unstable and when i would go over a bump the rear seemed to jump to the left...any way i got home and looked at the rear wheel whith more light and i saw that the wheel looked really out of line, it was pointing in towards whe inner side of the wall, i took the rim of and it does seemed to be bend where i could see the big hit the rim took but im afraid that i could be my axle...i wasnt able to get a pic of the rim facing in but ... what are the chances of beeing the rim and not the axle??? if its just the rim i wont be as pissed but if its the axle i wont be able to fix it for a while, i hear thats an expensive fix, i will deffenetly post more pics of the rim and how it looks but im just worried about the situation...any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

alignment.

 

i hope is something simple...i hit the curb going like 20 mph if that...you think an axle could get bend easy, anyway im going to go get it check out sometime this week...

 

probably VERY hard to do with these rims but maybe it bent.

 

I'd also say alignment

 

Take it in for an alignment. I doubt you bent an axle, but you could have bent one of the suspension pieces. Chance are it's just knocked out of alignment and will be an easy fix.

 

thanks for all the info...yes i think im going to take it in for an alignment...the rim got smashedddd...i gotta get me a new one of those...how much are they running for any one know?...yeh and josuar88 that R3 looks ridiculously sicckkk on ur sig. i wish u could put those rims on the 1st gen.

 

you can pick up a used oem rim for $100 on the forums.

dont put jack stands there. if the scissor jack for some reason fails, the jack stand will go bend all the metal in that area. if not go into the car. no good if you are under the car.

use the body frame. its about 8-12" in, on the bottom of the car. you will know it when you see it. it looks like 2x4s running underneath the car.

 

soo i have some bad new...i took it on today for an aligment and they told me that it wasnt that, that the axle and some arm that holds the wheel toguether had bent...they still have to check it out more in dept but they said aligment wouldnt do anything...im hoping my insurance covers it....it sucksss no 8 till who knows when

 

The upper, or lower control arm.

 

they dont know yet....thats y they need more time....how much could this cost? they were trying to tell me in the upper 1000's

 

+1 Yep
Therefore your alignment is ****

 

replace control arm .. get a wheel alignment. problem solved. As for the rim ... you can get it repaired ... or send out a wtb: stock rim in the parts section.

 

Those are the same jack stands and Jack I have.

Alignment, maybe control arm