sprintertx

Hi guys wondering if you could give me some input. Just driving me nuts.

I bought my S2000 last April with hail damage so its been a project-mode since. Currently getting all body work done and getting it painted Audi Sepang Blue !

I've noticed since i bought it that rear passenger side of the car looks slightly raised a bit and if you look closer and rear tire it looks like the front of the rear tire is slightly toed in? Sorry im not very mechanical.

Anyways i bought it to HONDA because obviously something was wrong. I told them that i thought something was bent of out of place.
They came back and told me they couldn't find anything wrong. And even did an alignment without any problems....Even though visually looking at it you can def tell something is up.

So i brought it to another non-HONDA shop. And the guy pointed out maybe the rear sway bar is bent and causing the car to "dog-tail".

I'm getting different opinions everywhere. I asked a few people and they said its very unlikely that the sway bar would cause my issue. And most likely either upper or lower control arm.


What do you guys think? I attached some pictures. Thanks in advance for your help!! much appreciated

PIctures

franky

I can't see anything from the pics. If the alignment is good then mayb one of the shock is bad or one of the spring is sagging. Have u check tire pressure or the tire size if they're the same?

SmokeyGatto

check the wheel offset also, i've seen stranger things on used cars.

Slowcrash_101

Check the bushings.

sprintertx

well its jsut the passenger side rear wheel.

You can see that the tire toes in slightly . All four wheels are the same offset i swapped wheel from the other side before and still nothing. Tire pressure is good. If you click the link it should bring you to my google drive whihc has a bunch of picutres i posted.

Would a shock cause the wheel to toe in?

sprintertx

Which bushing specfically? just on the upper and lower arms?

sprintertx

Just doing a google search bushing seems like a big job? Like i sad before im not much of a mechanic at all lol

Slowcrash_101

Yeah if they're torn they offer less resistance and the spring will lift that wheel up.

sprintertx

Is it more liekly bushing that the arm iteself being bent, If Honda was able to do a alignment?

Slowcrash_101

Well you could have a bent arm and it won't show up if you're doing a basic alignment, but it would show up if you compare the included angles, and set back. But you'll damage the knuckle long before you damage the control arm, it's just tricky to know how badly bent a control arm is if at all because they're angled from the factory.