Help me !!, opps Options

[NaderG]

so i am in a terrible mood , i decided to take a drive , i was mkaing a right turn into a side street and i hit the crub with my left front wheel , and not in a nice way , this was rough , the car got thrown to the side , it felt almost like the two wheels arent facing the same direction , this was on the top of my street so only a couple houses away , i drove it and the wheel is deffenitly woblling .... any help plz ? i dont know what i did ? and how to diagnose and fix ?

[jason]

prolly bent the wheel and possibly if not most likely some of your suspension components, id say to have someone take a look at it

[NaderG]

what kind of a mechanic should be able to do the job ?? and is there any way i can do it myself , i am kind of low on money and my family wont lend me so that i learn to drive a bit more slowly ( i wasnt even going 15 mph )

[jason]

rotate that side's wheels (front to back & back to front) and see if you still have a problem, i was doing about 10mph and hit a curb on the power, suspension is fine, just scratched and bent my old wheel, if just the wheel is done and the suspension is fine, just get a new one, if the car still handles funny (and not from the wheel flappin around in the back) then id take it to a tire/suspension place, somewhere where they can align it, and im sure a tech there should have knowledge to help you out

[NaderG]

i jacked up the car , and i compared the suspension parts between the two front wheels , my unexperienced eye didnt see anything wrong , i then inspected the wheel , it looks like it bent ... i put evrything back on , drove the car .. nothing seems different unless the car is going less thn 5 mph , when its that slow i can feel the car kind of limbing ... i cant put the rear wheels on because the tires are kind of flat and cause vibration if put upfront , so i cant do that ... would the spare ( smaller) tire work ??

[LewFX]

make sure your axles and tie rods are okay too

[NaderG]

well , i compared the two sides and nothing looks suspicous ..... the car drives fine except under 5 mph where i can feel a lil limb... but so far so good ... i will just have a mechanic look at it .

[NaderG]

if i bent something ... how much should i expect to pay ?? , i heard that the suspension is expensive to fix ... so how much ?

[jason]

spare should work, just dont go too fast, replace the bent wheel witht he spare and see if that fixes it... if your tires are flat add air, or flat spotted?

[NaderG]

spare should work, just dont go too fast, replace the bent wheel witht he spare and see if that fixes it... if your tires are flat add air, or flat spotted?

i tried spare , the lil limb went away , but i am not sure about this : when i take a fast right turn , the steering feel a bit funny ... but i am not sure because it might have been that way and i am just a bit paranoid .... and about the tire , i meant the tread is 90% gone !

[jason]

your not dealing with a normal wide tire when you have the spare on, so your steering is going to be a lil bit goofy, if it pretty much smoothen out your ride then you probably bent the wheel, while your at it... get some rims & tires to fit your taste!! or if you cant justify droppin that kinda money on wheels that are probably going to get scratched/stolen etc and on tires that are going to wear 300% faster, then just find someone who got new wheels n buy their old ones off of them

i also recommend having relatively new tires on a car most the time due to traction, mainly wet weather traction. older tires dont displace water as well, and from my point of view, is unacceptable. i feel you should at least be able to drive roads in the rain at normal speed limits and warning speeds in the curves, doesnt mean you HAVE to, but i feel you should have the performance in your tires to be ABLE to, same thing with braking in the rain...

[NaderG]

your not dealing with a normal wide tire when you have the spare on, so your steering is going to be a lil bit goofy, if it pretty much smoothen out your ride then you probably bent the wheel, while your at it... get some rims & tires to fit your taste!! or if you cant justify droppin that kinda money on wheels that are probably going to get scratched/stolen etc and on tires that are going to wear 300% faster, then just find someone who got new wheels n buy their old ones off of them

i also recommend having relatively new tires on a car most the time due to traction, mainly wet weather traction. older tires dont displace water as well, and from my point of view, is unacceptable. i feel you should at least be able to drive roads in the rain at normal speed limits and warning speeds in the curves, doesnt mean you HAVE to, but i feel you should have the performance in your tires to be ABLE to, same thing with braking in the rain...

the kind of goofy feeling comes when i am using my normal tires ( the one up front are new ) and only happens when the right turn has is a slight uphill so i am guessing that its normal and i am noticing it now bcause i am freaking out , there is no water here in So-cal , i also looked at the wheel again and i am not even sure if its bent or not .... honestly i dont know what the hell happened ... i am in such a bad mood these days i dont know what is going on