^^ thats scary

 

^Yeah, but that takes a heck of an impact. Not anywhere where normal, spirited, or bat-out-of-hell kinda driving will put you.

 

If you're referring to the image in my post, that damage resulted from a 30MPH sideways impact. Do you drive faster than that during normal, spirited driving? I thought so .

 

I was referring to street_ruler's comment on Garis' post, not the image.

 

VSA didn't save you?

 

Ive done the same thing twice! LOL maybe its not that funny, the firest time it was the upper control arm, the second i think is the same. I replaced the lower and it didnt get better. Does it kinda pull to one side or feel unstable when you go over bumps or dips in the road?

 

i'd replace the knuckle first... usually thats the first thing to bend.

 

I think that happened to my car before I got it. It looked fine, but when I put my new wheels on and had an alignment, the shop could only get like -.5 degrees of camber on the rear passenger side. He looked and couldn't find anything bent, but one of the OEM wheels looked much newer than the others, so he did something to it that warranted a new wheel! My car did drive pretty bad over bumps, when I first got it (swirved to the right), but I bought the adjustable ball joints to get the camber I needed and the allignment is in spec now and the car drives much better!

I am putting Eibachs and new shocks on it this weekend, I will check the knuckles when I do that.

 

it could be the control arm bushings, or the strut top mount