Okay well being a idiot, i hit a curb the other day. Pretty much destroyed one rim, and 2 others are slightly bent. I took it to my dealership, and they found that my rear control arm was bent, Hub bearing needed replacing, knuckle was bent? and i think thats it.. by looking at the suspension, you cant really tell (aside for the fact that you can only get -.5 camber out of that side) , and i was able to put on some extra rims i had, and limp the car to the dealership myself.... My question is, should i be looking for anything else? My coilvers LOOK fine, and felt fine when i was driving, but how do i know for sure? Everything is adding up quickly, so im pretty sure im going to claim it (theres some fender damage asweel), so i might as well get everything i can.. thoughts?


For the curious:

 

Well from what the rim looks like, you must have hit that curb pretty good.
What side was it that hit?
If it was in the front I would make sure steering components (tie rods, arms etc.) are not bent.
Checking all the arms (sounds like your dealership already did) and ball joints would be good.
Another thing IMPO I would just look over really fast would be the bolts on the subframe. They should have been painted from the factory. I would look at them too see if that has shifted at all. It most likely didnt, but when my schools s2000 hit a hole, it broke both arms and the rear subframe was shifted enough to mess up our alignment specs.

Good luck!

 

Imo, it is always a good idea to get a second opinion from a well respected performance and/or body repair shop that specializes in S2ks. I hit a curb once and the extent of the damage was unbelievable but virtually undisernable to the untrained eye. For some reason, I never trust a dealer to discover the latent defects.

 

The rear drivers side got the worst of it, but the entire drivers side was up on the curb, so i guess you could say the whole drivers side hit. I aligned the car that night, and from what i could tell, only the rear drivers side could not be put into spec. But since i have decided to go through insurance, i will have them check and double check everything.

As far as getting a 2nd opinion, i may consider that, but believe it or not, i do trust this particular dealership. They also have a tech there who specifies in just s2000's because they sell pretty well around here, and has delt with plenty of curb'ed s2k's (happens alot i guess).

 

I hit a curb once...spun 180...ended up facing the wrong direction...good thing the curb wasn't really high

Nothing really wrong with my body, left rear rim has a dent and some marks....
Front lip was cracked....

I am a Honda dealership mechanic myself...so I put my car on the rack the same
night, did a alignment...LUCKY nothing was bent...so I just adjusted all back to spec.

No wheel bearing noise, no vibration...etc....

 

Sounds like you got pretty lucky.


My wheel bearing is pretty loud. Guess it overheated because of the bent control arm / knuckle?

 

Damn Talk about some curb rash, Id get the suspension componests checked out just to have a piece of mind.

 

yowch on the rim

 

My buddy lost control of his S2k and went up a curb, rear passenger side first, and his alignment is all f__ked up now, waiting to see if its gonna be considered a total loss. He definitely needs a new rear control arm and probly damaged/bent the subframe and who knows what else.

 

I hit a curb also, it was right after i got it. i wasnt used to rwd, i chirped 2nd coming around a turn. and around i went. I thought i was ok but after a week i had almost bald rear tires but long story short i had bent hubs/spindles. since then i have seen it many times since then. hope that helps.