[surfintitan68]

Okay, need help. In Dec I had a collision with a deer, well the deer hit me. Anyway, had my truck repaired and picked it up and didn't notice any problems with the front suspension. While I was at work happened to pass in front of my truck in the parking lot and noticed something off. took a tape measure and measured both sides from bottom of fender to center of my wheels and driver side is approx. 1/2 inch lower than the passenger side. Deer hit front driver side bumper by the way. Also when standing in the front looking toward the rear the passenger side looks fine but ever so slightly the driver side looks as if the top side of the tire is slightly kicked in, toward the wheel well, I'm talking very slightly cause you really have to be looking for it to notice, any suggestions?

 

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Okay, need help. In Dec I had a collision with a deer, well the deer hit me. Anyway, had my truck repaired and picked it up and didn't notice any problems with the front suspension. While I was at work happened to pass in front of my truck in the parking lot and noticed something off. took a tape measure and measured both sides from bottom of fender to center of my wheels and driver side is approx. 1/2 inch lower than the passenger side. Deer hit front driver side bumper by the way. Also when standing in the front looking toward the rear the passenger side looks fine but ever so slightly the driver side looks as if the top side of the tire is slightly kicked in, toward the wheel well, I'm talking very slightly cause you really have to be looking for it to notice, any suggestions?

You may have had something bend during the impact that is causing the difference in height. Judging from the slight difference in height and the negative camber on the driver side I would assume it is one of the suspension components. It may have bent an upper or lower arms or possibly spindle which is giving you the negative camber. If I had to guess I would say upper control arm since that is usually the weak link and would make sense for the slight camber and ride height difference.

You do not have enough ride height drop to have the coil bucket or shock be the issue for the negative camber. It would need to drop several inches to see a change in camber from just ride height alone.

 

[surfintitan68]

You may have had something bend during the impact that is causing the difference in height. Judging from the slight difference in height and the negative camber on the driver side I would assume it is one of the suspension components. It may have bent an upper or lower arms or possibly spindle which is giving you the negative camber. If I had to guess I would say upper control arm since that is usually the weak link and would make sense for the slight camber and ride height difference.

You do not have enough ride height drop to have the coil bucket or shock be the issue for the negative camber. It would need to drop several inches to see a change in camber from just ride height alone.

So could this have been an easy miss, or is it possible for the dealership to have purposely missed this

 

[honda250xtitan]

titans generally sit lower on the driver side anyways. could just be a bad alignment. check to see if your coil bucket is bent/tearing away from the welds on the frame.

 

[surfintitan68]

okay no broken or cracked welds that I can see, no bent ones either. the only thing I did see was a possibly bent sway bar, could this cause my problem?

 

[gonfishin]

Best way to tell for sure the Chassis is ok is have it Aligned. your Insurance would probably still cover this from the accident. Check with the shop that did the work. If not have a reputable shop align it and let them know it was in a collision. A good tech will know right off if there is something wrong. Keep us posted!

 

[surfintitan68]

Okay so this past Monday I got my truck back to the dealership that did all the repairs. They checked the measurements on my front end, the only thing they showed to be out was my tow angle. they re-did an alignment just to make sure everything was okay. Thanks for the help guys