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[Jake Didsbury]

Last year I had the back end out on my mini goign round a bend, not fast but i steered too sharp and it flicked the back end out and it then flicked back the other way when i tried to correct it. I hit the curb with my passesnger side rear wheel and bent the subframe, the wheel had alot of positve camber.

So I changed the subframe and did some welding work while it was off, the subframe was tight to fit because of the new plates welded in on the heel board etc but the holes did line up ok and the wheels look in line with the front ones, ive had a friend who also drives a mini driver behind me and its seems that the car is not crabbing, but the drivers side wheel is actually stuck out (looks wider0 then the passenger side by about quarter of an inch or so, it looks like the passenger side is toeing in slightly, but ive mesured the radius arms to the subframe from the end of the stud bolt that holds the bottom of the dampers on to the subframe edge and it is exactly 52mm on both sides so the wheels are in line and the car isnt crabbing so the wheel cant be toeing in, my second thought was had it shifted the shell to the drivers side? but then the sibframe would have not lined up and it would have crabbed?

Im a little puzzled, but my friend who followed my in his mini says one of his rear wheels is liek that but on the opposite side, is this sort of thing normal?

I also think the wheel caught the arch as it hit the curb becuase it kinked the sid eof the car in abit just above the arch where the lip is, but only a little bit (that I will skim out), but this would make the wheel appear to stick out more on the passenger side than drivers but infact its the opposite way?

Thanks
Jake

[liam-ds]

when you hit the kerb and it pushed the arch up it has to have moved the wing in to create the crease ill have a double check on mine in morning and ill let you know iam Jakes friend and i have followed him about a fair bit over the past few days and like he says the car drives stright and does not crab personally i think its a "mini thing"

Liam


just checked on photos of my car and it is my passenger side one that sticks out more

Edited by liam-ds, 06 February 2012 - 09:38 PM.

[Jakeclubby]

Mines similar to this but not as much (my names jaKe aswell!!!!)

[Jake Didsbury]

when you hit the kerb and it pushed the arch up it has to have moved the wing in to create the crease ill have a double check on mine in morning and ill let you know iam Jakes friend and i have followed him about a fair bit over the past few days and like he says the car drives stright and does not crab personally i think its a "mini thing"

Liam


just checked on photos of my car and it is my passenger side one that sticks out more

I know its moved the wing in, but that should make the wheel more visable

[liam-ds]

when you hit the kerb and it pushed the arch up it has to have moved the wing in to create the crease ill have a double check on mine in morning and ill let you know iam Jakes friend and i have followed him about a fair bit over the past few days and like he says the car drives stright and does not crab personally i think its a "mini thing"

Liam


just checked on photos of my car and it is my passenger side one that sticks out more

I know its moved the wing in, but that should make the wheel more visable

yep true shot myself in foot then think its just how they are ill have a measure tomorrow on mine and also my rear arch on one side was creased like yours is now so might just be from bottoming out of mine might have had a little knock at sometime

[Jake Didsbury]

anyone else have any thoughts?