{"id":6264,"date":"2015-11-05T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2015-11-05T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T11:00:00","slug":"suspension-carnage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/05\/suspension-carnage\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspension Carnage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our collision center is right next door, so we do all the mechanical repairs to the cars they do bodywork on. A lot of times this means we get to see some nicely destroyed parts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015_11_05_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-136\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015_11_05_01.jpg\" alt=\"2015_11_05_01\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->You can tell just by looking that something&#8217;s wrong. The wheel is pushed to the back of the wheel well, and it&#8217;s cracked at the rim. The driver must&#8217;ve run into a curb or something at a pretty high speed, because barely any bodywork is damaged, but the suspension on only this right front is destroyed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015_11_05_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-137 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015_11_05_02.jpg\" alt=\"2015_11_05_02\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first thing I noticed when walking by was the broken axle. Not something you see every day. Then I noticed the curved sway bar link, which is supposed to be straight. It&#8217;s hard to tell, but the sway bar itself might be bent a little at the end.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015_11_05_03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-138 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015_11_05_03.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"2015_11_05_03\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015_11_05_04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-139\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015_11_05_04.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"2015_11_05_04\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the left is the left front&#8217;s lower control arm, and on the right is the right side&#8217;s. It is very badly bent, which is very impressive. Must&#8217;ve taken a lot of force.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015_11_05_05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-140 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015_11_05_05.jpg\" alt=\"2015_11_05_05\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In my opinion this is the most impressive looking of the damage. That is a tie rod, part of the steering system. It&#8217;s supposed to be straight. It is no longer straight. Overall, by a very rough estimation, at least $1000 in parts. Definitely good you have insurance for collision repair.<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our collision center is right next door, so we do all the mechanical repairs to the cars they do bodywork on. A lot of times this means we get to see some nicely destroyed parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[26,58,70],"class_list":["post-6264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-damage","tag-suspension","tag-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}