Man, am I bumming. I'm too old to be making these kinds of mistakes.

Anyway, I hit abount an 8 inch curb going around 10-15 MPH. A large chunk of the rim was taken out (see below). I was able to pull the car off the curb and straighten it out on the road. The ground effects took a hit (expected that) and the alignment is totally wasted. The car is creaking when you turn right in a manner it didn't before and the passenger's side wheel is rubbing on the interior of the wheel well.

What else could be wrong? Gimme worst case so I have an education when I get the repair bill. I'm hoping it is just an alignment on top of a new set of rims. I've never been that lucky.

 

check all the front end suspension stuff, make sure the tie rods are ok

 

i bet that rim can be buffed out by a shop, reworked and smoothed out.

 

Balljoints, check them for excess freeplay and see that they aren't wasted.
Spindle, look to see if there are any stress lines showing through the old road grime, signs of it slightly cracking or flexing. I'd take off the rotor and take a good look at the bearings and where they mount.
The rod for the strut. It might be bent....
Strut mount
Inner tie rods were already said.
Yeah, that's about most of the stuff you can mess up hitting a curb.

 

Thanks Joe.

Nail on the head.

Travis... can you think of a better excuse for new wheels?

 

yea... they were stolen and the insurance company has just written you a big check for NOS factory replacements....

that would be a better excuse.

 

 

Update:

Spindle
Baljoint
Control Arm
Tie rods
Alignment

There is a quick 1000 bucks for you.

 

Holy ****, that's nuts.

That's maybe $350 in parts if you did both sides...

 

??

Spindle -50
Baljoint - 12 for mine, but lets say 15 and get both
Control Arm - any more then $25 is a ripoff
Tie rods - $15 each
Alignment - $between 50 and 85...

thats still only $205....

 

Pick and pull?

 

no... it would be cheap at a pick n pull.... $50 for just a spindle is from a "they pull it" type place...


then again, you're in cali, so who knows? lol


edit:

and of course the balljoints and tierod ends are new.. only things used are the a arm and spindle.....
GM used the same joints and ends in ALOT of things, so they're really cheap.