Hi all,
In the past year or so my car began chewing the insides of its rear tyres, I understand very common, the strange thing was the drivers(right) rear looked visibly out of alignment (toe out and negative camber) and that side was eating them up more than the other. I have not hit anything and I have photos of the car when I first got it from enough angles to tell it has clearly gotten worse or suddenly happened. I had a quick look underneath to spot anything obviously wrong and couldn't but did come to the conclusion it was past time for some rear suspension maintenance. I have no plans on getting rid so bought a whole rear refresh kit, stripped the rear end down and wire brushed and painted my rear subframe ,which had no obvious damage either. I then fitted all the new bushes/arms with the idea of getting it aligned afterwards but once fitted the same visibly out of line wheel still looks way out of line, to the point where I set it to the least amount of camber and max toe in and it still has so much toe out and negative camber that it is clearly visible by eye. So my question is, the only parts left are subframe and hub. Which I assume must need a pretty big whack to end up bent, I guess it is possible someone hit it and I didn't know but this is really confusing me now. Is it possible that the hub/carrier assembly could be bent but the wheel still spin straight(relative to the face of the hub) and smooth? I will upload photos soon but Imagine the wheel looks like it has been pressed in at the 10-11oclock mark. so the bottom right of the wheel is visibly stepped out.
Thanks for any responses.
In the past year or so my car began chewing the insides of its rear tyres, I understand very common, the strange thing was the drivers(right) rear looked visibly out of alignment (toe out and negative camber) and that side was eating them up more than the other. I have not hit anything and I have photos of the car when I first got it from enough angles to tell it has clearly gotten worse or suddenly happened. I had a quick look underneath to spot anything obviously wrong and couldn't but did come to the conclusion it was past time for some rear suspension maintenance. I have no plans on getting rid so bought a whole rear refresh kit, stripped the rear end down and wire brushed and painted my rear subframe ,which had no obvious damage either. I then fitted all the new bushes/arms with the idea of getting it aligned afterwards but once fitted the same visibly out of line wheel still looks way out of line, to the point where I set it to the least amount of camber and max toe in and it still has so much toe out and negative camber that it is clearly visible by eye. So my question is, the only parts left are subframe and hub. Which I assume must need a pretty big whack to end up bent, I guess it is possible someone hit it and I didn't know but this is really confusing me now. Is it possible that the hub/carrier assembly could be bent but the wheel still spin straight(relative to the face of the hub) and smooth? I will upload photos soon but Imagine the wheel looks like it has been pressed in at the 10-11oclock mark. so the bottom right of the wheel is visibly stepped out.
Thanks for any responses.
