Control arm bent?
 

Mother ----. I got my car back from alignment today and all the guy could get on the front passenger side was 1.4* of camber, I am led to believe here that either my subframe or my control arms are bent. Anyone have a good idea of how to test each?

I am a bit furious, the more I think about it, I more I remember at RA I had an off where I might have ran over something. Anyways, should I just buy new arms and say ---- it or is there a sure way to find isolate each?

what do your other control arms look like?

In for results as you know! Ive been suspicious of bent stuff for a long while, But I have never run into a good way to find out what. My thought, that I havent had time to fully investigate is to look at spec miatas forum, they probably bend ---- all of the time, and they could probably tell you the dimensions of everything off the top of their heads.

what do you mean? they look like control arms...Visually, there isn't anything wrong with them. ---- man this is so gay. I am just going to buy two used ones from parts group.

i was talking about rust, becuse i was gonna say put new ones on. profit

I dont think rust would be an issue tbh. Unless you saw holes in them. At that point I would replace them anyways.

what did you hit at ra? I doubt they would have actually bent unless it was a really big hit.

I don't know. it was loud, but my car certainly didn't feel different. crashncar theory is its a ball joint... didn't really know that could affect things.

I can't remember if I had that off on the first or second day, because we checked my camber on day 1 at night and it was spot on 2*.


Yea, rust wise, my car is fine. other than surface rust spots, the CAs are clean. Which is whats worrying me, what if my subframe got tweaked? but how really, I mean unless I drive into curbs in my sleep and fix it...

I know that feel bro. This is exactly what Im still trying to figure out on my car... When we do my homebrew (On a flat spot this time!) alignment me and a few of my friends are going to try to find any possible spots that are tweaked on mine.

---- it, I bought a lower ball joint. 2nd day air, if I can get it by saturday I will put it in and try to fix the alignment, if it doesn't fix it then I will get a used LCA from partsgroup and try to have it in and aligned by friday. I want to get out to CMP on a good ------ note damn it.

the shitty part is, I am going to go back and get it realigned. $125 down the f'in drain.

Ouch dude... they dont offer like a... sorry your shits broken, come back with it fixed and we will give you a discount... discount?