I noticed this when I was washing my car this past weekend. The passenger side rear wheel seems to sit closer to the rear bumper than the driver side rear wheel. You guys think this might be a problem with the toe setting? I hardly drive the car and haven't hit anything with it. I bought the car used with a "clean" carfax from the original owner. I measured the body panels and they're all the same length. Any advice will be appreciated!

I took the measurements from the body line at the bottom of the car to the wheel.

In front of driver rear wheel.



Behind driver rear wheel.



In front of passenger rear wheel.



Behind passenger rear wheel.

 

im not expert..

but has the car been hit?? or jumped a curb??

that seems like some suspension damage..

 

Does the car drive oddly? If not, then I'm not sure I would care that much.

 

Not that I know of.

 

maybe you should get it checked out by an alignment shop.


i think you may have some suspension damage on your car.

 

You need to have the suspension checked. If that shows nothing, you need to have the frame measured at a good body shop (ie. not just some guy with a tape measure). Also,its difficult to tell, but from your pictures, it appears that the bottom edge of the fenders don't have the textured section. I think all S2ks had this. If yours doesn't, it means the fenders have been replaced.

I had a Civic with a salvage title. It had been hit HARD. The passenger side tire sat closer to the back of the fender on it too. I hope your problem is only bent suspension. It would be a shame to find something worse.

 

yeah that's not normal. I'd take it into a shop pronto

 

Looks like you have negative setback. Take it to a GOOD alignment shop and ask them to measure the setback. A bad shop will only measure camber castor and toe. If you have more then a degree of negative or positive setback then chances are it was in an accident.