TheWoganSleeve

Hello hello

The front of my car sits unevenly on the ground, i took the wheels off and this item on the pic looks bent, could this be the cause??

What are they called?

Where can i get new ones?

Th efront of my car i svery low but about 20 cm lower on the drivers side, changed the lowering springs for standard but the car sits exactly the same.

Bit of a mystery, as always help would be appreciated

Sorry i aint looked at the archives, i dont know what im looking for and im kinda busy

Cheers all

TheWoganSleeve

anyone?

YOUWSH

That whole section would be your lower control arm. Your shocks or suspension is the one in the middle of your picture and on the right of that is the end links for your sway bar.

By the looks of things that photo is of your left or driver side?

From memory that whole lower arm should be pretty flat so unless you hit something very hard and bent the lower control arm that could explain why one side is "20 cm" lower than the other....which by any standard is a very big difference.

YOUWSH

The part you have circled is actually a bushing where you can move it 360 degrees so although it looks out of shape because it isn't dead straight with the bolt...thats perfectly normal.

TheWoganSleeve

Oh thanks for that, the other side end link is a little more bent looking than the side shown, the pictured one is the lower side,

I was thinking it may have gone over something hard, the front does not handle very well at all,

could the chassis be a bit out of shape or is it more likely teh sway bar being bent?

ta

YOUWSH

The sway bar in the FD is extremely fragile and you'll find a lot of owners have replaced their sway bar brackets at some stage. I just replaced mine about 3 months ago. My brackets were so bent backwards that the sway bar itself was stuck.

Try jacking up the car and looking under it. You'll definately notice if something is bent under there. Like I said compare one side to the other. I highly doubt you've damage your chassis but I'm leaning towards damaging the lower control arm causing your wheel alignment to be out of whack as well as one side higher than the other. A big difference of 20 cm from either side is a massive massive difference.

I suggest you fix whatever you bent or damaged before you get a wheel alignment.

TheWoganSleeve

Will do cheers, for the help,

on another note, i was in sydney 4 weeks ago saw a few nice black 99 fds about by the harbour, good stuff, never seen a 99 fd in UK

TheWoganSleeve

actually its 20mm not cm whoops