Curbed the truck hard...

Good morning Tacomaworld!

On my way to work i curbed my truck avoiding a deer on a snowy road.

The steering wheel is a little off center off, so I'm sure I need an alignment.

How can I tell/see if anything else is damaged?

Thanks in advance for your help!!!

 

Do you hear any creaking or noises or weird driving tendencies? My guess is the alignment is probably off like you stated, but any pics of the upper and lower control arm areas with the wheels turned outward to not block the view could help.

 

Rim bent / damaged ?

 

No creaking or noises. Theres no abdormal play in the steeringwheel. I'll take some photos of the control arms with the wheel inward and outward.

 

The rim has curb rash, I was doing 70 on the highway and there's no shaking.

 

Measure both sides, center of wheels

 

As in height? Center of wheel to bottom of the fender?

 

Center of wheel front tire to back tire

 

If there the same then no damage, just needs realignment

 

Am I seeing things or do I see oil slung round?

 

So from the center of the front wheel, straight back to the center of the back wheel?

 

Alignment and if you are still hosed it will probably be a spindle - the fusable link of the front end.

 

I was wondering similar. It looks like you have some sort of fresh fluid on some of your LCAs. Is that just road contaminants or is something leaking?

 

It just looks wet to me...

 

Pretty hard to tell, that's why I say take a tape measure and go center of front wheel back to center of rear wheel. Do this on both sides to see if they are the same distance.

 

Well you could always take your hand and feel around the wet areas. Oil is pretty discrenable from water and road spray. The inner CV boot area does look like they are wet on the tulip side, could be worth taking a look at just to verify.

 

Ah, now

Ah, now I get what you mean. I am currently at work, so that will have to wait until I get home. I'll update thought. Thank you!

 

Yeah I'm not the best at explaining things

 

I'll head back to the parking lot as soon as I can and I'll update. Thanks