Slid into a Telephone poll.

Today on my way to school I turned on some black ice and slid sideways into a telephone pole. The pole hit my passenger side front tire and quarter panel. I hit fairly hard and now my tire on that side is toed out really bad and the steering is completely messed up. The steering wheel has to be sideways (90 degrees from normal) to the normal position for the wheels to be straight. Now Im contemplating a few Options.

Since There are no broken parts just bent one I might either..

-dissassemble that whole side and heat it up and torch it back
or
-say fuck everything and put a solid front axle on in. (easier said than done im sure)
or
-Do Like a mid/long travel to it.


Let me know what you guys think. Pics of the damage 2maro.

 

O yea forgot to mention I would like to do this as cost effectively as possible.(hahah don't think that's going to happen)

 

pics would be great. BTW glad you did not get hurt or anyone else.

 

You never want to heat and bend any suspension parts weakens the metal. I'd just replace whats bent or broken and get a new front end alignment. Cheapest way I know.

 

If you wanna do it as cost efficently as possibe you might as well throw the straight axle/LT idea out the door


How about u just pull the wheel off, see what's bent and replace it? Can't be much worse than mabye a UCA/lower UCA and a tie rod end

 

Did you purposed misspell "pole" in the thread title because this is a "poll" of what you should do now?

 

I was wondering the same thing

 

definitly do not reheat the metal and bend it back that is super dangerous because itll weaken it even further. if your lookin for the most cost effective going SAS or LT isnt the way to go,stock replacement parts would be. if you were planning on going SAS or LT before the crash anyway then id say yah go for it since this is now the reason to do it lol.

 

yea....we'll go with that.

 

I've always wanted to go SAS and now's the perfect time. Looking into it at the moment but seems a bit more complicated than I can handle.

 

SAS and cost effective are two highly contradicting words.

 

My main concern would be finding all the parts to complete it within a reasonable amount of time.

 

That's what I was thinking but it's like the entire tire is pushed in. And the CV is at a really weird crushed like angle.

 

As I do research I seem to find that it would cost alot more than I expected. For some reason I was under the impression SAS was much cheaper, but alot more work than LT. Once again I am wrong...

 

Why not just contact your insurance and have them take care of it, unless you have a high deductible?

 

Yea, The cost of the insurance increase for the next 5 years wouldn't be worth paying. It would be alot cheaper for me to keep my mouth shut and fix it myself.