OK, for those you you who don't remember (all of you) I put the driver's side of my TII into a curb at 60mph in february.



Up front I broke the wheel off, taking the brake rotor with it. I bent the LCA fairly bad and fudged the sway bar a bit.



out back I bent the control link and broke the hub in two places. also, the CV joint on the wheel end of the halfshaft is FUBAR as is the rear swaybar.



I now have most of my parts, and I know it will require front AND rear alignments, but my question is: How strong are the frames on FC's? All of my car buddies (including a Mercedes tech) say that frame damage is unlikely, but I thought I'd come and dip into the Well of FC Knowledge that is the 2nd Gen Forum.



Has anyone here dealt with a similar situation, or am I the only idiot with a heavy foot?





PS: also, how strong is the rear trailing arm? I can see that the tire rubbed it pretty good.

 

no one?



Maybe I AM the only idiot here

 

I bought my car with a similar problem, the horozontal link

in the rear bends easily from curbing, cheap to fix even with a

new one, less then $100



its a full frame car, your probably fine. Even if its not a hour

or so on the frame machine will make everything good, but I doubt

you will need it

 

in the front the subframes bend first, and out back the arms bend, so youre prolly ok

 

The FSM has a bunch of frame dimensions in the body/chassis section that you could check yourself with a decent tape measure. If you can't find any problems then anything that minor can be corrected with an alignment.

Good luck

 

thanks alot for your input guys....very helpful.



Ill update with my progress