OK, I know similar problems have been covered here about this problem before, and I have read all the threads concerning this topic, but so far none of them seem to quite fit the problem I'm having...

OK, so about 2 months ago I somehow pissed off some weirdo redneck and he starts chasing me and yelling and pointing his finger at me, and I try to out maneuver him through traffic, but he just keeps on coming... I decide enough is enough and pull a HARD right into an empty parking lot (doing about 35-40mph) in the rain, no less. Well, I guess that was just too much and I drifted sideways right into a nice juicy curb, completely screwing up my left front rim.

After a couple of weeks of riding on the spare (I switched out the tires so that the spare would be on the rear tire, and not on the diff in the front) I finally find a replacement OZ rim and get it installed. Well, now my car vibrates funny all the time, and I take it to a tire shop to see if it's just my alignment. Turns out, not only did I have an alignment problem, but I bent my lower control arm about two inches back, and my tire was sitting back a good 2 inches from where it was sposed to be.

So $450 later, I get a "new" used lower control arm and the wheel is back to normal position. Now, I am left with a strange vibration problem: when I go straight or steer to the right, everything is good and nice and smooth. When I steer to the left at about 25+ mph, I get vibration, which is embarrasing and kinda freaky. The faster I go, the more intense the vibration. I've been driving it like this for 2 months now, but I'm starting to get worried... here are some pics to illustrate what happened:

this is the old rim that I hit the curb with, note the damage:


Here is a photoshop representing where my wheel WAS before I got the control arm replaced. The blue "ghost" is where the tire got pushed back to:


Dang man, I've been screwing up my car a little each month... this has got to stop!

be sure to remove the " .org.jpg " from the end of the image name properties and they will post up perfect on here...

Hehe, yeah I just found that out, thanks :)

Too late for me to edit it apparently :shrug

Yoiu probably bent the lower trailing arm too.

I can see why you tagged it...



too sloshed to use the camera! :P

j/k

Hmm... I don't know what that is but it sounds like a valid idea.

How much you think to replace it? (I have to have a shop do it, my tools SUCK!)

Well I took it to the shop and the guy there test drove it and says he thinks it's the hub bearing. That doesn't sound too expensive, I guess...

I'm gonna have to go monday to get a quote on the part + labor and have them install it. I'm just thinking this MIGHT be something I can do. How hard is it to install hub bearing? Where is a site where I could order it pretty cheap?