Bottomed out HARD.
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Bottomed out HARD.
1998 Honda Civic Si 2Dr Coupe (Yes Si, i'm from Canada (and our winters leave nice big huge death traps on crappy roads!) )
The civic is lowered with coilovers, and is about ~4.5 inches off the ground
I was going around a corner today, and i hit a big pot hole that i didn't see, it was kind of a weird one, as my front wheels both dropped in, but my bumper didn't touch, but under the passenger side, hit HARD on the edge of the hole. the back wheel was off the ground, and it took 4 people to push it backwards because the fronts just spun. When i open the passenger side door, it clicks with the front fender, but i fixed that by putting a screw driver and moving the fender slightly., is there anything i should b worried about breaking under the car? it missed the exhaust pipe, but pretty much all the weight of the car was on the area between the pipe and the edge of the car. (Basically right under the passenger door in the center) Like any lines that could be pinched? or any parts that could be dented? or broken?... there is what looks to me like a metal "shield" there, but it does have sort of a curve in it now, where it was sitting on the edge of the hole.
Sorry about the novel
any help appreciated!
The civic is lowered with coilovers, and is about ~4.5 inches off the ground
I was going around a corner today, and i hit a big pot hole that i didn't see, it was kind of a weird one, as my front wheels both dropped in, but my bumper didn't touch, but under the passenger side, hit HARD on the edge of the hole. the back wheel was off the ground, and it took 4 people to push it backwards because the fronts just spun. When i open the passenger side door, it clicks with the front fender, but i fixed that by putting a screw driver and moving the fender slightly., is there anything i should b worried about breaking under the car? it missed the exhaust pipe, but pretty much all the weight of the car was on the area between the pipe and the edge of the car. (Basically right under the passenger door in the center) Like any lines that could be pinched? or any parts that could be dented? or broken?... there is what looks to me like a metal "shield" there, but it does have sort of a curve in it now, where it was sitting on the edge of the hole.
Sorry about the novel
any help appreciated!
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Those two "rails" formed of the sheet metal under the car are an important part of it's structural integrity. There's nothing inside but they act like a box beam. The fact that the door doesn't work properly suggests that the whole "frame" of the car is bent.
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i dont think it was hard enough to bend the frame,as as for thr door not working properly, it does, it just slightly tocuhes the fender when you open it, it still closes properly, it just barly nicked it, not even enough to rub paint off
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