Hey guys. I have found out over my six years of ownership that the S2000 suspension is rather sensitive when it come to staying in alignment. That said, I slowly backed into a curb tonight while parallel parking. The angle at which this occurred was more straight on versus to the side as I have experienced before and been out of alignment as a result.

At any rate, there was still some angle to the impact, and since this was on the rear, it's hard to say if it did knocked the car out of alignment.

My questions is, do you think I should get the car aligned? Or just leave it since the impact was not a direct blow to the sidewall?

Thanks for your thoughts and if you have any questions or this was confusing to understand let me know. I would just rather not spend $80 on an alignment to find out the suspension geometry is just fine.

 

its up to you. i would recommend getting an alignment 1 a year at least depending on where you live more if you live where potholes breed. I do alignments all day at work and it doesnt take much for any car not just the s2k to go out of alignment hit a pot hole to hard or not see a speed bump. but if you were going like 2 mph I wouldn't worry about it too much.

 

Thanks!

I was going rather slow when it happened, but I am always paranoid because it takes NOTHING to knock the S2000 out of alignment.

I probably should just get an alignment anyway, because it has been quite a while since my last one. But I don't drive the car much either.

Thanks again.

 

I would take it in.
Alignments are cheap for the performance they bring.

 

Just driving over speed bumps, or driving on crappy roads, over time throws off the alignment?

 

Yep, it can.

The times I have been far out of alignment has been via a curb check.

I am going to get the car aligned tomorrow. You can't be too careful, and if the car is out of whack it's easy to burn through a set of rear tires fast.

Plus, I checked my service records and the last time I had the car aligned was in May of 2009.

I haven't driven it more than 10K miles since then, but the roads in Missouri suck, making it overdue for an alignment.