Got a bit excited on Sunday and ended up sideways hitting a kerb pretty hard with my NSF wheel on my 56 WRX. The impact took a nice chunk out of the outer rim of the bridgestone potenza, and now the steering doesn't feel right. The steering isn't as sharp and the wheel needs less force to steer one direction over the other.

I've jacked the car up, and can't see anything obviously wrong, but I'm sure I've damaged something rather than just mis-aligned.

Any thoughts?

Thank you, Jack

 

I recently had a similar incident (2 written off alloys ) and iI took it to a my local subaru specialists where they gave it a once over they couldn't see any stress marks etc on the suspension then booked it into a local tyre company and got a 4 wheel alignment done,the garage said that if I had done cracked/bent the suspension arms etc then the alignment guys wouldn't get to factory settings.

 

I had same sort of experience many years ago on a saxo ( I know it was my first car ). No one could solve the problem. It was only when I got some new alloys fitted they said one of the wish bones was slightly bent

 

Anything bent would be obvious when you look at the suspension components.

Is the wheel sitting at a different angle to the opposite side?
Is the gap between the tyre and arch different from the opposite wheel?

If you can get it on 4 axle stands you can measure from corner to corner, front NS to Rear OS then Front OS to Rear NS and see if the measurements are different.

A dishonest wheel aligner will always suggest you need something that they can charge you for. Dont tell them you hit a kerb hard and if they say something needs replaced ask them to show you excatly what and why it needs replaced.

Hope you havn't damaged anything to badly.