What happens if you go over a pot hole?
Potholes can puncture your tire or bend or crack your wheel. It can damage your tire’s sidewall or belts. Even a minor impact may knock your vehicle out of alignment. A pothole strike can damage your shocks or struts, or harm your suspension.
Can hitting a pothole damage your suspension?
Pothole strikes can bend, snap, break, sever or deform all manners of suspension componentry. They can damage the rubber isolators or ‘bushings’ that cushion the metal-on-metal contact between the many complex arms and levers and joints and hubs and springs that comprise your vehicle’s front-end.
Why does the rear of my car sway when I hit a bump?
Bounce or sway while driving a car can be caused by faulty struts, shocks, or worn out tires. Check and inflate car tires to begin the diagnosis.
What can break when you hit a pothole?
When you drive into a pothole, it’s not just the tire that absorbs the impact. The most common types of damage are loss of a hubcap, a damaged tire, a bent or broken wheel, wheels knocked out of alignment, damaged suspension components, bent steering parts, and damaged shock absorbers.
Is it bad to hit your tires on the curb?
A major problem resulting from hitting the curb is throwing your car’s suspension out of alignment. This will lead to uneven tire wear in as little as 200 miles. Your tire may also have suffered damage to the sidewall that could lead to a possibly dangerous blowout.
Why does my rear end sway when I hit a bump?
One thing I cant stress enough on is the long bolt for the lateral arm on the rearward side of the knuckles must be tightened with the suspension at ride height otherwise it will flex too much when the car is at ride height and tear the bushing.
Why does my suspension clunk when I hit a bump?
The rod’s bushings are a likely source of a clunking noise. Worn-out shocks or struts are also common culprits here. When the internal hydraulics wear out, the piston will move without the proper resistance and stop short when you hit a bump. With shocks, another thing to check for is loose or dried-out mounting bushings.
Why does my rear suspension make a hard thumping noise?
Noises Over Bumps and While Turning. The classic symptom of bad ball joints is a hard thumping over bumps, and while entering a corner. Rear suspensions, though, are more likely to have problems with the control arms and linkages that connect them. Sway bar end-links are also suspect, as are strut mounts.
What happens when you hit a pothole in your car?
Sudden, jarring hits against potholes can cause a variety of suspension problems, including misalignment, broken ball joints, and damaged shocks or struts.