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Our concorde is badly out of alignment. The right side front tire hit a tree. We can't find anything bent or broken. Where might we look next? We have checked the tirods, struts, etc. Not sure what to do next.
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You will need to have your vehicle put on an alignment machine to have camber properly adjusted. Some vehicles have no provisions for camber adjustment and something may have gotten bent and parts replacement will be required
lots of possibilities here. have you recently hit anything such as pot holes? try rotating tires from rear to front and see if there is a difference. Beyond that it could be anything from bent wheels to out of balance tires(less likely to be noticed at low speeds), or perhaps bad tires(choppy tread). Next is to check steering and suspension for worn or damaged parts. Hope this helps.
check if your shocks are leaking. Jack up the car and with the right wheel off the ground check it for play in the bearing if it is tight and not grinding it is good. I would try another alignment shop if you dont find anything. Oh by the way dont let the wife hit any more curbs. If it is hitting curbs it could get knocked out of alignment.
hard to say what is the symptoms front end shaking or shimmying could be a tire out of balance, bad tire(broken belt, goose egg on the tire). is the tires screaming could be alignment problems. is it pulling to one side or the other could be a hanging break caliper (pulls to side caliper is hanging on) alignment problem (bent or broken tie rod ends) car shakes or shimmy when brakes are applied usually is a bad or warped rotor. the possibility is endless.
Well without seeing it I don't know whats bent or not but your caster angle causes a pull since it is pulling right you need to add more caster to the right side or make the left side caster less.If it is the tires rotate left front to the right front and the right front to the left if it goes straight or pulls left its in the tires if it still goes right its in the alignment.
It could be the steering rack but the first thing you should do is have an alignment job done. Even if there is another problem, the hit would almost certainly knocked your suspension out of alignment. So you'll probably need to get this done anyway. If there's still a problem after that, then I'd have your steering looked at. But the alignment may fix it entirely.
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