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Old Feb 26, 2007 | 04:09 PM
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Dented K-member cause car to lean?

Last night Fireman and I were underneath my Formula trying to determine what is causing my car to lean so bad towards the driver front side.

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Springs and struts and everything looks good and stock, spring & strut numbers match. Under the car that looks like something big was ran over and passed it's way through the undercarriage of my car. But it looks like the K-member was beat to hell the most. Like indented 1 inch or so. Right now the car is at the shop getting a professional look at to figure out the problem.

I don't have a pic sorry, just wondering if it could have an effect on that.
Old Feb 27, 2007 | 03:31 PM
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The previous owner of my car cracked something pretty hard as well and put a good sized indentation in the k-member as well as banging up both the stock y-pipe and oil pan. To this day I haven't had any weird issues with the car pulling or leaning to one side. I would venture to guess you have an alignment issue.
Old Feb 27, 2007 | 04:16 PM
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I will get it to an alignment shop asap as the steering wheel when driving straight looks like it's making a solid right turn.

The GM shop did say it was due to a bent subframe and a body shop would be the one to fix it.
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