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Old Oct 2, 2005 | 02:53 AM
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Yeah, so I recently got in an accident, they fixed my car, or so I thought. I had the car lifted today to install my Cusco camber plates and noticed that I can shake my drivers wheel. The passengers wheel is nice and tight. But when I do it on the driver side, I can move it around, it wobbles. It's like the hub is loose or something.

Has anybody else had this problem? I'm going to take it back and tell them that i'm not going to pick it up till there are no problems with my car. I'm afraid that my suspension on that side of the car is going to fly off. And to make things even better, the car is slowly starting to pull to one side. These guys suck!!!. I wonder if anybody even bothered to check when they put the tire back on the car, or did they see it and just let it be.

I just have to vent, thanks for listening.
Old Oct 2, 2005 | 05:10 AM
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Isolate what the loose area. If the taper roller bearings of the front hub were not set correctly there is your problem. And a ruined bearing set is yours already.

Jack it up and look while an assistant shakes if need be. Shakes the wheel I mean.

good luck.
Old Oct 3, 2005 | 05:20 PM
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If the taper roller bearings of the front hub......
THANK YOU! I'm been trying to find out which type of wheel bearings our box has out front!!
Old Oct 4, 2005 | 03:16 AM
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Originally Posted by SciFly
Isolate what the loose area. If the taper roller bearings of the front hub were not set correctly there is your problem. And a ruined bearing set is yours already.

Jack it up and look while an assistant shakes if need be. Shakes the wheel I mean.

good luck.
As an update, I took my car back to the body shop that fixed it. They told me the from the heat expansion from basically having a whole new suspension put in, it just needed to be tightened. So they fixed it, and now it rides like a dream. I'm going to actually going to check it out this weekend to make sure that everythings alright. Thanks for the help.
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No pulling? Did they do an alignment? I'd ask for one if not. I got a 4 wheel after getting hit in the back drivers side.
Old Oct 5, 2005 | 02:20 AM
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Yeah, they did an alignment. I drove it to work today, about 25 miles each way, mostly of freeway driving, and it rides like a dream. I'm happy that theyfinally fixed it. I'm still ____ed that they let me take it home with a loose hub. That's not cool at all. I'm just glad that my suspension didn't fly out and hurt somebody.
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