>tire blowout from pothole
>car immediately starts to drive weird
>think it’s the tire
>replace tire
>balance wheels
>alignment
>car still driving weird
>mechanic looks at suspension, rods etc says it’s not that, the only thing left it could be is the wheel got bent
>wheel doesn’t look bent, just scuff marks
Am I getting played or can a wheel be bent despite not looking bent
Maybe you need a psych evaluation?
I’m being serious am a car scrub
>Mechanic insists it is not the suspension or anything in the car itself, says it has to be either a bad tire or bad rim
>Asked how can the rim be bad if it looks like a circle they said even a tiny bend can fuck up a car
>they lifted the car and pulled on the wheels etc said it’s not bearing either so yes it’s definitely a tire or rim issue
Not sure if getting punked or not
It's totally possible. I had a wheel on my Mustang that had really shit runout, not sure if from pothole or what, but the tire shop said they could only balance it out so much and it still had some driveline vibration after I found that out.
>made the thread again
>tire blowout from pothole
This is why Americans don't drive small cars anymore and get massive SUVs
For fuck sake those SUVs are causing the potholes in the first place
It's mainly the politicians.
No they aren't... Bad road building skills and winter causes potholes. The heavy single axle vehicles like buses and day cab inner city semi tractors do the most road damage and even those don't cause potholes, just ruts.
My suv doesnt care about potholes either. Potholes are a problem for retards who lower their cars and get rubber bands on 20+inch wheels.
Bro, just get a used wheel as a replacement.
OEM wheels can be had at junkyards or classifieds.
Not something expensive.
They’re probably not bullshitting you. My shop diagnosed this for my car once and didn’t even charge anything for looking at it. No incentive for them to lie about that. It’s pretty rare but it can happen. Really fuckin annoying. Had one bent rim and it made my steering wheel shake badly around 40-60mph. Changed back to my stock wheels are problem was instantly gone.
Steering wheel isn’t shaking its more the car is wobbly / feels like I’m driving on a seesaw that is tilting left to right at high speeds
The floor and seat are shaky/vibrating though
Yea I definitely experienced the sort of loose/wobbly feeling as well. The steering wheel was just the most egregious symptom I had. Car also felt like it was kinda skipping to a stop sometimes when I would brake.
The least you can do is take a few minutes to rotate the wheels to find out for free if the handling changes. If it does, then you're on your way to figuring out which wheel is too wonky. Also if you got an alignment then post the before and after in case the odd alignment tech is around to say something less inane than in the usual shitposting threads.
Maybe if you keep ignoring people's advice and make this thread over and over it will magically fix itself!
your strut is bent. it won't be obvious 'till you compare it to the replacement strut.
every pothole blowout i've seen has resulted in a bent strut. the strut usually gets bouncy after a week or so after the event too.
Mmm interesting but makes sense.
Mechanics were absolutely insistent it’s not any part of the suspension and that it’s the wheels
The second shop you took it to gave you the same diagnosis?
Doubt it’s the wheel, check alignment again after driving for a little, if it’s off again then it’s a suspension issue not a wheel issue.
While wheels can definitely be fucked without being visible I tend to agree that the symptoms don't sound like a wheel. The suggestion of a bent strut is interesting but there could also be something else that the mechanic didn't pick up on.
Wheel bend would be obvious during balancing, something else is fucky. Couldnt tell ya over the phone. Road force balance the wheels and find out.
So I went to another tire shop they said last shop are retards and absolutely butchered the balancing. So they did it correctly and now it’s driving significantly better. However, the car still feels a bit wonky and wobbly just not as badly. They said it’s probably struts?
At this point, just trade it in for a new one. You're going to waste months rebuilding your shitbox suspension 1 piece at a time at multiple shops charging shop rates
Thing is, it’s a new Toyota.
Oh damn. Similar thing happened with my new Subaru. Ended up selling it back and buying an old shitbox. Dealership techs aren't competent anymore, they cant get parts in a timely manner. Any Mexican can completely restore my shitbox for a few thousand dollars
It’s a 21 Corolla. How the fuck is it having all these issues? Yes the roads in my city are dogshit with but what the fuck man.
If it’s the struts the car doesn’t even have 20k miles yet so I guess I’m gonna harass the dealer to fix them because this shit is just lol tier
If it's the struts it's because you damaged them driving over potholes at full speed like an idiot and the repair will not be covered under warranty
Toyota Ain't what it used to be. I used to hoon my $900 off the shady lot high mile celica on dirt roads, push broken cars with it, I even towed an F250 with it one time. Id floor it over the train tracks and thread traffic at 100+ mph. Never bent a wheel or replaced the shocks or the muffler that fell on the train tracks in the 2 years I had it. Now your brand new crapola is fucked up because of hitting shit roads at regular speeds? 30 year old toyotas in Afghanistan are going to outlast your car.
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What a larp
Have you been neutered? That's kind of a typical experience for american teenagers/poorfags in their 20s 20+ years ago.
Lol, what a dumb homosexual. You were "threading through traffic at over 100" in a clapped out Celica, keep larping shit for brains loser
>You were "threading through traffic at over 100" in a clapped out Celica
Yes. What is hard to believe about that? Ive done that in an even more clapped out 85 volvo that was filling my shoes with coolant at the same time.
Keep larping stupid homosexual, people can tell when you're full of shit.
Difference is the aspect ratio of the tyres on cars now, 2010 corolla with bounce off curbs no worries but the newer ones will just fold even though they have more steel everywhere it matters. Go throw some steelys on a new car and it'll completely change the way you drive it.
Not to mention smaller wheels with more sidewall. There’s calculators out there so you don’t fuck up the overall diameter, there’s no reason for a typical car to have larger than 16” wheels.
Unless you were going 100 over it and the pothole was 5 foot deep it’s not normal for Toyotas to fold like that. New cars just suck and have taken a nosedive in quality since last decade. Even Toyotas aren’t the same anymore. Ngl I abused my old 2005 with potholes everywhere and it never had such problems. New cars are just cheap trash now
if he balanced them at wallyworld them coons wouldnt fucking tell you they were bent
make a jig to check runout
Feels off kilter
wheel bearing maybe