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These pics are of the damage to my car when I bounced it off an embankment a few months back.


Geez, that's not right.





Tweaked my control arm just a bit.







Busted up two of my rex wheels too.

Front wheel



Can you believe this held air?!



Back Wheel

*phew!*

I thought something just happened.

That's looks awful! Its all fixed, right?

Yeah, it's all fixed up....except I still need a new inner fender liner but besides that it's a-ok.

The car looks like this now.

http://bbs.legacycentral.org/viewtopic.php?t=26886

Be glad all that got fubar'd was the control arm.

Yeah, I got real lucky.

In total it was the control arm, ball joint, abs tone sensor, the two wheels, lost inner fender liner, and a minor scrape on the side of my front bumper.

what about your endlink, it had to of snapped.

looks familiar. I did this a few months ago:





A new control arm and knuckle later and I still have a clunk. I think I need a steering rack.

I toasted my front right wheel like that also back in the day. Make sure the wheel bearing is in good shape, mine was wasted.

Bheinen74 wrote:what about your endlink, it had to of snapped.

My endlink? Do you mean my tie rod end?

Wow Jamal, your control arm look almost identicle to mine.

I'd say your rim faired better though.

Yikes. That's nuts. I think I was talking to Hardy about this at some point -- apparently the control arms are designed to yield that way. Subaru wanted to make sure that an impact too strong for the suspension to deal with would get absorbed before more permanent parts of the car get tweaked.

Good thing a control arm is a fairly easy part to replace.